Thursday, June 28, 2012

John Roberts Is Running For President!

JR

John Roberts' swing-vote for Obamacare is a godsend for Republicans, who really don't want to campaign with five reactionary Supreme Court Justices who overthrew the Congress, and it isn't exactly good news for Obama, who now has to run with a "healthcare reform" bill that even a gung-ho shill for the Democrats like Markos Moulitsas once called "a piece of shit."

Meanwhile all around the idiot blogosphere progressives discover in Roberts a "secret centrist," and his legal résumé is sure to wow an electorate that elected Obama on the basis of not much more than his election as "the first black president of the Harvard Law Review" and a stack of empty promises.

Legal experts will wheeze and stutter over 200 pages of Supreme legal prattle that could prove or disprove almost anything, and it won't occur to many of them that every word of it was designed to promote the personal ambition of John Glover Roberts, who now towers above all other potential Republican candidates for 2016, as if by accident! As if by magic!

As if by law!

 
 

Orchid

Bourgeoisie got the blues!
Got the slob-blues like goobers!

Wanna buy a used eggbeater?
Cheap!

Cheap! Cheap! Cheaper!
Cheap!
Please buy my eggbeater!
Cheap!
Cheap! Cheap! Cheaper! Cheap!
Please buy my eggbeater!

    I used to be
                                a real
                                                    orchid of the bourgeoisie.

 
 
 
 

Abe and Marilyn

Abe and Marilyn - Milton Green

Abe and Marilyn - Milton Greene, 1954
 
 

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Rebirth

Break the ligatures!
Brutalize the augur!
Re-elect the ovarian
cadaver and...

Save the giblets for grandma!

(This advice is ultra-gratis.)

Are you ready for adventure?
Are you ready for radiance?
Do you want to play
nerdier
than
thou?

My girlfriend is an ocarina!

My mother was a cow!

 
 

Brigitte Bardot

BB

Brigitte Bardot - Eve Arnold
 
 

Monday, June 25, 2012

Quiz

Are you made out of macaroons?
Can you sing all the verses of Auld Lang Syne?
Are you really worth saving?

Are you really worth saving, my friend?
Are you really worth saving again and again and again?

 
 

Friday, June 22, 2012

Artelia Bendolph

Artelia Bendolph, Gee's Bend Alabama, 1937 - Arthur Rothstein

Artelia Bendolph, Gee's Bend Alabama, 1937 - Arthur Rothstein
 
 

Surprise

Hooker walking down Hollywood Boulevard in the summer rain...
Voodoo hooker who ruined the Imam of Abbottabad!
Mambo-god of atomic honkies!

Hey babe! Can I mooch a little bacon?
I'm a yahoo-tycoon with a yacht in my condom!
All-American goon!
Mambo-god of atomic honkies!

 
 

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Child of the Mafia

Child of the Mafia, Palermo - Letizia Battaglia

Child of the Mafia, Palermo - Letizia Battaglia
 
 

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Capitalism in India: 5,000,000 Infant Deaths Per Year

"Newborn Deaths Expose India’s Low Health Budget," screams the headline at IPS, but behind those godawful statistics, an even more miserable reality is thinly concealed.

"A report released Jun. 13 by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) as part of the ‘Countdown to 2015’ initiative placed India’s IMR rate slightly higher at 48 per 1,000 live births. The initiative tracks country-level progress in reducing maternal, newborn and child mortality and involves various partners."

"According to the UNICEF report, Pakistan has an IMR of 70 per 1,000 live births, followed by India with 47, Nepal with 41, Bangladesh with 38 and Sri Lanka with 26."

“In India, the IMR is 47 per 1,000 live births, which translates into 1.25 million infant deaths per year,” Azad said.

So the figure of 1,250,000 Infant deaths per year was based on infant mortality estimated at 47 or 48 per 1000 live births, but in one of the very few hospitals where records were actually examined, G.B. Pant Hospital in Srinagar, summer capital of the state of Kashmir and Jammu...

"Citing the hospital’s records, the report said the facility had witnessed 981 infant deaths in 2010 and 985 in 2011, averaging a high 20 percent mortality – twice the accepted rate for state-run hospitals in India."

20 percent mortality! That's 200 dead infants per 1000 live births!

So when the ridiculously understaffed Indian health service concentrates its meager resources on actually counting dead infants, the real figures for infant mortality in India rise to four times the "official" figures, and instead of 1,250,000, the real total is probably in the neighborhood of...

5,000,000 infant deaths per year in India, that miserable shit-hole of globalized capital.

 
 

Fetish

Peeper buys a third eye from a passing Cyclops.
And why not?
Did you want to recycle the same
creepy debacle
night after night after night after night?

Are you servile?
Then serve an imbecile!
Learn to drool!
Elope with Oedipus!
Change his name to "Mr. Pus-Lips!"
Strip for Jesus!

 
 

Monday, June 18, 2012

Tata India



Is the American model of corporate capitalism unique?

Think about it!

And here's a tool to think with, from the great Arundhati Roy!

Tata India!

‎"If moral purity is the criteria for stone-throwing, then the only people
who qualify are those who have been silenced already."

"Oprah came. She said she loved India! It made us proud!"

 
 

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Résumé

Nimue Smit - Txema Yeste
Nimue Smit - Txema Yeste

My first word was "fart."
I won't moo at your goat!
All I own is an umlaut!

Aloha!
Aloha!
Aloha!

I don't bleed!
I can't cry!
I forgot how to masturbate!

Please!
Let me die!

 
 

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Map

Brain full of bugaboos,
bus full of goofballs,
bums impersonating bedbugs
on
my
bus-map...

Map as big as the world.

 
 

Lindsey Wixon

Lindsey
 
 

Monday, June 11, 2012

Shiva Pumpkin

We share millions of genes with a pumpkin!
I'm the suntan of millions of suns!

Welcome to my nutshell!

Shall we sing a duet?
You can borrow my tonsils!

It's the same old song...

God turns into a pumpkin.
Pumpkin turns into God.

We share millions of genes with a pumpkin!
I'm the suntan of millions of suns!

 
 

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Who Is Barack Obama?

Who2

Nicaragua - 1984

James Nachtwey - Nicaragua - 1984

James Nachtwey - Nicaragua - 1984
 
 

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Rockabilly

Rockabilly in a Laundromat - Erik Refner

Rockabilly in a Laundromat - Erik Refner
 
 

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Spokesmodels

Spokesmodels2

I hired a hog to sodomize Mitt Romney.
Same hog sodomizes Barack Obama!

"What the heck are you doing," I scream!
"I didn't hire you to sodomize Barack Obama!"

"I'm sorry," says the hog,
"But once you start sodomizing spokesmodels,
it's hard to stop."

So here we go again!

Same hog sodomizes Ashton Kutcher!
Same hog sodomizes George W. Bush!
Same hog sodomizes Michael Jordan!
Same hog sodomizes the corpse of Ronald Reagan!

 
 

Friday, June 1, 2012

Monthly Unemployment Non-Story

BLS5

The table and graph above lay out the most basic description of
US employment and unemployment for the last ten years.

What percentage of able-bodied Americans over the age of 16 have a job?

In October 2009 that stat hit a plateau at 58.5%, and it never bounced
up or down more than three tenths of one percent from then to now.

58.5% in October 2009
58.5% in November 2009
58.2% in December 2009
58.5% in January 2010
58.5% in February 2010
58.5% in March 2010
58.5% in March 2011
58.5% in March 2012

58.4% in April 2012
58.6% in May 2012

And that's the non-story of US employment and unemployment
month after month after month.

 
 

Pacifica

Raise the western seaboard!
Compress the ocean!

All the turtles are coming home!

Are they coming home from a faraway nebula
or a bar in Malibu?

Were they waylaid by kisses?
Will the angels confess?

They created our world,
then they wove her a dark blue dress.

 
 

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