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2005-02-28
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I'll be calling Crazy Buffet this evening; looks like we'll be a smallish horde. M & K, will you and the young 'uns be able to make it?
I'll be calling Crazy Buffet this evening; looks like we'll be a smallish horde. M & K, will you and the young 'uns be able to make it?
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cavalorn's linguistic lollings, I bring you six terms of disendearment and derogatory derision.
In no particular order:
: Pinko - "You espouse questionable dogma, and look vaguely porcine."
: Fuckwit/Fucktard - "You're too dumb to bump uglies properly."
: Asshat - For visuals alone, this one has become one of my favorites. Add in the flexibility of being useful as a minor dismissal up to a relatively robust denigration, and there's almost nothing you can't put an asshat on.
: Shitstick - Why anyone not in the company of livestock would need to measure fecal depth eludes me, but keep asserting that it's only ankle deep. We know you're head-down.
: Bitchstick - Similar to a shitstick, but you're a lightning rod for complaints and ill humor.
: Twat - Some people find this word itself to be unutterably distasteful. I find it a joyful put-down for precisely that reason. Short and sweet, yet still sporting a wide aray of Sarlacc connotations delivered with a uniquely Anglicized contempt.
cavalorn's linguistic lollings, I bring you six terms of disendearment and derogatory derision.In no particular order:
: Pinko - "You espouse questionable dogma, and look vaguely porcine."
: Fuckwit/Fucktard - "You're too dumb to bump uglies properly."
: Asshat - For visuals alone, this one has become one of my favorites. Add in the flexibility of being useful as a minor dismissal up to a relatively robust denigration, and there's almost nothing you can't put an asshat on.
: Shitstick - Why anyone not in the company of livestock would need to measure fecal depth eludes me, but keep asserting that it's only ankle deep. We know you're head-down.
: Bitchstick - Similar to a shitstick, but you're a lightning rod for complaints and ill humor.
: Twat - Some people find this word itself to be unutterably distasteful. I find it a joyful put-down for precisely that reason. Short and sweet, yet still sporting a wide aray of Sarlacc connotations delivered with a uniquely Anglicized contempt.
ross_winn said something very insightful this morning, but I was too busy to share it with the handful of you who read my tripe.In December of this last year, Mediaweek reported that 99 percent of the complaints to the FCC that have led to the new fine structures, legislation moving through Congress regarding "decency", etc., have been coming from the members of one conservative Christian media watchdog group: The Parent's Television Council.
One group of puritanical fuckwits, attempting to dictate our culture....and succeeding, because of a sympathetic administration.
So, I figure, why not give 'em a taste of their own medicine?
Checking out the PTC website, I found their contact information. Including this phone number: 213.629.9255
Imagine what would happen if each of us decided to call that number, once a day, and politely request that they stop their efforts to move our nation further down the road to Theocracy.
Now imagine that this became a meme....spreading via the internet to thousands of people, all of whom called, once a day.....
If you believe in free speech, put up or shut up!
In addition to the stated aims of the community, I'm also prone to advocating that the FCC stop being used as, or behaving like, a tool of morality. There exists a free market for communication of all stripes, whether vocal minorities or majorites approve of it. Free speech is, and traditionally has been, one of the cornerstones of this country.
That has eroded. Not to the extent that the doublethink envisioned in 1984 is the only recourse, but by limiting discourse or distracting the public eye from the important issues at hand, or moving to silence those voices that are critical of the powers that be, implicitly or explicitly, the FCC has been used as a tool by those who wish to be secure in their station.
I am certainly one of the first to criticize the failings of the deregulation that allowed giant media conglomerates to quickly become dominant near-monopolies (yes, I'm talking about Clear Channel), and believe that maintaining diversity in broadcast media should be, and should have remained, the FCC's overarching responsibility.
But they have failed. At the hands of a few wealthy corporations who have chosen to dictate policy, the politicians are more than willing to capitulate. At the hands of an outspoken, exclusionary band of religious fanatics, the FCC has buckled.
I have all but forsaken broadcast media, both out of protest for this sorry state of affairs, and because no meaningful alternative has presented itself, other than the internet. I can all too easily see a future where a corporate state controls the common flow of popular information.
If this is a chance to tell that future to go fuck itself, and shove a red-hot needle under the eyelid of some self-righteous fucks who have the temerity to dictate what I can and cannot choose to watch and listen to, then so be it.
That has eroded. Not to the extent that the doublethink envisioned in 1984 is the only recourse, but by limiting discourse or distracting the public eye from the important issues at hand, or moving to silence those voices that are critical of the powers that be, implicitly or explicitly, the FCC has been used as a tool by those who wish to be secure in their station.
I am certainly one of the first to criticize the failings of the deregulation that allowed giant media conglomerates to quickly become dominant near-monopolies (yes, I'm talking about Clear Channel), and believe that maintaining diversity in broadcast media should be, and should have remained, the FCC's overarching responsibility.
But they have failed. At the hands of a few wealthy corporations who have chosen to dictate policy, the politicians are more than willing to capitulate. At the hands of an outspoken, exclusionary band of religious fanatics, the FCC has buckled.
I have all but forsaken broadcast media, both out of protest for this sorry state of affairs, and because no meaningful alternative has presented itself, other than the internet. I can all too easily see a future where a corporate state controls the common flow of popular information.
If this is a chance to tell that future to go fuck itself, and shove a red-hot needle under the eyelid of some self-righteous fucks who have the temerity to dictate what I can and cannot choose to watch and listen to, then so be it.