After Geography

2010-10-31T19:38:00.004-04:00

So this blog is getting old and dusty. 1000 posts!* Rory's blog is pretty nice looking, so I think I'm going to be a follower and move to tumblr. I expect that all of you will continue to read this new blog. So, change your links dudes because the dust is going to really start to pile up over here. You can still leave comments and I expect you to continue that as well. Do you understand?

I'd like to go out with a good post. I highly recommend this. It's pretty funny.

Otherwise, I'll see you all over here.
*this isn't actually quite the 1000th post, but almost.

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wait a minute...wha??

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Whatever

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Nice float...where's Ferdinand?

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What's all this?

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Things are getting good for my cousin!

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Nappy wiley

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My shit

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Oh my gosh dirty projectors are the best!

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Sawyer meets Lake Michigan!

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If you don't know, now you know. Full kitchen. 50 bucks!

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Day one is done. Hello Akron! Hello chips, salsa, and beer!

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Goodbye beach. Goodbye Cape May. Thank you for the best summer of all time. We'll be back to rent a beach house with all of our friends for a whole summer one day.

(that means you, friends...like it or not, we have to do that. Billy, Sterling, I know you're in. It would be so cheap)

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Happy birthday dingbat!

daddy?

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I don't know if any of you listened to the music Tom was playing before the show, but they were all apropos. For one, he played maggie's farm. I think that's really tight. He's so smart about music.

2010-09-10T09:36:00.001-04:00

Watch the full episode. See more Need To Know.

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Just found this little gem from our youth in the back of it's a breeze

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I don't know if the topic is totally dead but somebody needs to call in and tell Tom to look up this record cover. Try to tell me this doesn't look just like him!

2010-09-08T07:06:00.002-04:00

Daddy likey. I recommend. I didn't know going into it, but it's basically about being vegan and how it can make you crazy just how stupid and selfish people can be. But it's cute and funny too. (And free on netflix)

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Bangin them out

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The waves are here

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Happenings

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2010-08-31T15:53:00.004-04:00

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/flaws-in-u-n-climate-panel-structure/

Oh my gosh. On the very day that an important skeptic comes around, The Blaze (Glenn Becks' new venture) deems this more important for reporting. If you want to gouge your eyes out I recommend you see what kind of time and effort "feralcat" put into his comments...

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Old boy

2010-08-29T06:05:00.001-04:00

spanky stars...

2010-08-28T11:34:00.007-04:00

So I'm listening to the "Restoring Honor" rally right now and, needless to say, there is some insane shit going on. I need to look into what brainwashing is, but this seems like it may be an integral part of it. In between speeches they are playing these long and corny monologues of Glenn Beck reading, in a soft and soothing voice, about what it means to have honor and compassion and what makes a patriot. In the background is music, sometimes soft and pleasant and sometimes loud and triumphant. I can't see the accompanying video, but depending on what they are playing, I think it may be similar to how people get brainwashed. It's also really annoying because a lot of this has been totally unobjectionable so far. There have been a lot of cliches and corny nonsense, but mostly revolving around being compassionate and doing good deeds and equality. I think the end goal of this is to use simple rhetoric to convince a bunch of dummies that being conservative means being good and that the other side of the political spectrum is made up of ogres who like to push old ladies down stairs. Having said that, I do like to mug senior citizens.

2010-08-27T13:28:00.000-04:00

Chris is making more power moves. You may have to scroll down, but there is an interview.

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Getting my tan lines tight

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2010-08-26T16:34:00.001-04:00

Billy this is an orchestral version Ram. It came out years after Ram was released under the name Percy “Thrills” Thrillington. When it came out that it was really actually the Macca himself it got really valuable. As high as $500...nbd.

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Annie & I

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Biebel's World is tight. Just babewatching.

2010-08-25T18:24:00.001-04:00

I have to repost this for those of you who don't check Johnnie's blog. I didn't know this existed

2010-08-25T11:12:00.001-04:00

Chris dan ster bill kev wu where you at?

2010-08-25T01:37:00.001-04:00

Vegan

2010-08-24T13:59:00.001-04:00

Come on now. Things have changed...

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2010-08-23T12:29:00.001-04:00

J420

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Seeing bonnie "prince" billy makes you never want to play music again

2010-08-19T16:56:00.001-04:00

In case any of you are trying to reach me, my phone is going on a small hiatus. If it's very important, I'm sure you'll find a way to reach me.

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2010-08-18T22:56:00.001-04:00

Happy birthday chris! Dedicated to maverick

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2010-08-18T15:41:00.001-04:00

All ella

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It's pouring out and my day consists of listening to, and alphabetizing, these records. Plus a ton that aren't in the picture. I'm happy.

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2010-07-31T23:43:00.001-04:00

Billy, it just occurred to me that I've watched this everyday, at least once, since you posted it. I love it so much, so thanks for finding this. It's so much better than the actual song.

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2010-07-29T23:45:00.000-04:00

On his Monday radio show, Glenn Beck highlighted claims that before he started targeting a little-known, left-leaning organization called the Tides Foundation on his Fox News TV show, "nobody knew" what the non-profit was.

Indeed, for more than a year Beck has been portraying the progressive organization as a central player in a larger, nefarious cabal of Marxist/socialist/Nazi Obama-loving outlets determined to destroy democracy in America. Beck has routinely smeared the low-profile entity for being staffed by "thugs" and "bullies" and involved in "the nasty of the nastiest," like indoctrinating schoolchildren and creating a "mass organization to seize power."

As Media Matters reported, the conspiratorial host had mentioned (read: attacked) the little-known progressive organization nearly 30 times on his Fox program alone since it premiered in 2009, including several mentions in the last month. (Beck's the only TV talker who regularly references the foundation, according to our Nexis searches.)

So yes, Beck has done all he can to scare the hell out of people about the Tides Foundation and "turn the light of day" onto an organization that actually facilitates non-profit giving.

And guess what? Everybody in America would have found out about the Tides Foundation last week if Byron Williams had had his way. He's the right-wing, government-hating, gun-toting nut who strapped on his body armor, stocked a pickup truck with guns and ammo, and set off up the California coast to San Francisco in order to start killing employees at the previously obscure Tides Foundation in hopes of sparking a political revolution.

Thankfully, the planned domestic terrorist attack never came to pass because California Highway Patrol officers pulled Williams over for drunk driving on his way to his killing spree. Williams quickly opened fire, wounding two officers during a lengthy shootout. Luckily, Williams wasn't able to act out the ultimate goal of his dark anger -- fueled by the TV news he watched -- about how "Congress was railroading through all these left-wing agenda items," as his mother put it. Williams wasn't able to open fire inside the offices of the Tides Foundation, an organization "nobody knew" about until Glenn Beck started targeting it.

And thankfully, Williams wasn't able to take his place alongside a growing list of domestic, anti-government terrorists, such as the recent Pentagon shooter, the Holocaust Museum gunman, the kamikaze pilot who flew his plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas, and the Pittsburgh cop-killer who set up an ambush because he was convinced Obama was going to take away his guns.

All the vigilante attacks appear to have been fueled by an almost pathological hatred for the U.S. government -- the same open hatred that right-wing bloggers, AM talk radio hosts, and Fox News' lineup of anti-government prophets have been frantically fueling for the last year, pushing doomsday warnings of America's democratic demise under President Obama.

And the sad truth is we're going to see more like Byron Williams. We're going to see more attempts at vigilante violence during the Age of Obama simply because the right-wing media, lead by Beck, continue to gleefully (albeit irresponsibly) stoke dangerous fires with the kind of relentlessly incendiary rhetoric that has no match in terms of modern day, mainstream use in American politics or media.

Just listen to Glenn Beck:

* Progressives "are sucking the blood out of the republic" and are "gonna start getting more and more violent."

* "To the day I die, I am going to be a progressive hunter."

* "[Y]ou will have to shoot me in the forehead before you take away my gun" and "before I acquiesce and be silent."

* "This game is for keeps"; "[Y]ou can shoot me in the head ... but there will be 10 others that line up."

* "There is a coup going on. There is a stealing of America"; "God help us in an emergency."'

And don't forget about the unhinged response when health care reform was passed in March: "Get down on your knees and pray. Pray. It's September 11th all over again, except that we didn't have the collapsing buildings." After financial reform passed last week, Beck told his audience, "Your republic is over."

Meanwhile, Andrew Breitbart's website recently tagged Obama as the "suicide-bomber-in-chief," while the conservative Washington Times just last week published an op-ed -- by a former congressman, no less -- asserting the president poses more of a threat to America than al Qaeda.

Note that the radical right's media rhetoric is no longer even political in a partisan sense. Instead, it's purely revolutionary. It isn't, "We think taxes should be lower" or "Obama should be more hawkish overseas." It's, "There's an insidious and deadly plot afoot by Democrats and progressives to strip Americans of their freedom and this country of its greatness." Obama is now the incarnation of evil (the Antichrist?), and his driving hatred for America, as well as for democracy, runs so deep that he ran for president in order to destroy the United States from inside the Oval Office.

Rush Limbaugh: "Our country is being overthrown from within."

And this summer, the latest toxic twist to that line of attack is that Obama is destroying America on purpose in order to exact revenge from white America for the historic sin of slavery. (Think: Black Manchurian Candidate.) The GOP Noise Machine is now mixing a vile cocktail by stirring revolutionary rhetoric with hateful race-baiting.

It's impossible to argue that today's avalanche of insurrectionist rhetoric doesn't have a real world effect. Or that those on the fringes don't find comfort in seeing and hearing their worst fears legitimized on AM radio and Fox News.

The consequences of the doomsday programming seem entirely predictable. As Jeffrey Jones, a professor of media and politics at Old Dominion University, recently explained to the New York Times in regard to Beck's rhetoric, "People hear their values are under attack and they get worried. It becomes an opportunity for them to stand up and do something."

Indeed, the relentless message that right-wing audiences hear is unequivocal and inescapable: Do something! Take action!

And last week, Byron Williams, likely inspired by Glenn Beck's Tides obsession, grabbed his guns and set out to do just that.

Eric Boehlert

2010-07-29T23:05:00.000-04:00

Fuck yo life this is so tight

2010-07-28T19:55:00.001-04:00

Damn cape may is tight

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2010-07-22T23:06:00.005-04:00

Wowee! I was just saying to Annie that I've had zero inspiration to go on the computer or blog at all, but I just got a text message about this. It's actually super awesome. This is the only other person besides Chance and I who can carry on the Laufman name. Everyone has to listen to Wise Blood now and make him famous so Assateague can tour with him.

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