A Real Bulgarian Songstress!

I suggest you watch this twice for the full experience.

Post By: Imon

Yikes!

Yikes!™ is a recurring feature in which the bleeding heart liberal of an author will pick something in society that scares her, and with the use of too many words, and a few run on sentences, try and convince you to live in fear as well.

Last night, as if by Ouija board-like control, I turned my radio dial* to CSPAN for coverage of the Republican debates. It was like something out of The Twilight Zone. McCain and Romney were arguing about who was more dedicated to continuing the war in Iraq! Like it was a good thing! They grappled over which one of them really wanted to take away a woman's right to choose. And I thought someone was going to get bitch-slapped when they got into it over No Child Left Behind. They were speaking English, but I would've understood Korean more easily (in case you were wondering, I am not fluent in Korean). I think all the craziness they were spouting combined with the radio airwaves to burn a hole in my brain where some of my speech recognition skills used to be. In fact, I am not even typing this. I have to use a scribe.

The whole ordeal filled me with fear and anxiety. The thought that one of them could get elected is utterly terrifying. Between last night's debates and Monday's State of the Union Address, I wonder if the Republican nominees, or really any Republicans, live in the same country as I do. Their America sounds like an alternate universe!

With recent polls projecting McCain for the win, I'm considering fleeing the States after graduation. Seriously, any Canadian couples need an au pair? As I am currently taking 100-level French, I can teach your child to say "pencil," as well as how to order a decent potage and ask for the restroom. Save for last night's incident, I am practically bilingual.

This reminds me. Yesterday my coworker revealed his plan to, within the next 7 years, convince all black people to become Republicans so that we can "turn the party around." When I asked him how he planned to do this, he assured me that if he could get Wu-Tang on board, the rest would fall into place. God Bless America.

*No, I am not a senior citizen. I had to skip the CNN broadcast because of Moment of Truth was on. You think I would miss that?

Posted by: Brittany

Yikes!

Yikes!™ is a reoccurring feature in which the bleeding heart liberal of an author will pick something in society that scares him, and with the use of too many words, and a few run on sentences, try and convince you to live in fear as well.

“Post-Everything”

Everywhere I turn, somebody seems to be lamenting the loss of something. This era in society is post-everything. Almost everything that we could culturally rely on in the 20th century has given way. Every time I look at the news I read about how a certain group is poorer than ever, or TV ratings are lower than ever, or music sales are lower than ever, newspaper sales lower than ever, or how one day, first run films will be released on the internet, same day as they are in the theater.

In an era of increasing mechanization, reliance on computers, and digital technology, we’re marching boldly on, straight and true, towards what? A nation of zombiehood? Yikes!

The planet is choking and sinking as the result of our relentless and myopic plundering of natural resources. The current presidential administration in America has alienated the world and plunged us into a seemingly unending war the cost of which is great in human lives and national morale. There is no end in sight.

In this post industrial society, jobs that people once made a decent living by have disappeared, factories have closed, machines taken over, outsourcing occurred, and the largely urban public pushed aside in the great capitalistic march towards “progress.” All by a profit obsessed society that doesn’t need it anymore.

But what are we progressing towards, and in whose best interest?

Posted by Hannibal
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