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November 10, 2004 by WiseFawn
So, I've had it easy here at JoeUser because I'm a female? That's funny. And you are worried about the type of readers I might bring here? That's sad. For ten months now, I've blogged merrily along here, despite the personal insults you've thrown my way. Despite your petty little innuendoes and snide, pathetic slurs. I've blogged here because I loved JoeUser and many of the people here. I've blogged here because I had things to say. I've been saying them elsewhere, pretty successfully for ...
November 1, 2004 by WiseFawn
GLEANING MEANING FROM POPULAR KEENING, CANDIDATE PREENING This Article is Written By JIMBO!! Since the Democratic primaries began, the probability has seemed immense that no fair tally of voters would return Bush to office, polls and pundits notwithstanding. I’ve been saying and writing that for nearly a year. Short of a coup or some similar master-stroke of ‘playing both ends against the middle,’ “anybody-but-Bush” would win out on November 2. In all likelihood, in other words, J...
October 8, 2004 by WiseFawn
blights and plights and fighting for bright when all of the might in the universe seem pretty frightful A seventeen year old girl ran a red light and destroyed my car, and the police officer refused to listen to a bystander's witness---that she plowed into me---because the fellow had been drinking beer and was a marginal sort of character. He approached me immediately after the impact, as I sat in my car stunned, uncertain whether I was hurt. "My God! Are you OK? I saw the whole thing...
September 7, 2004 by WiseFawn
to Carnage and Chaos and Mayhem A QUIET CONSERVATIVE ICONOCLAST STICKS UP FOR CALM COMMON-SENSE WHEN ALL AROUND HER SPOUT BOMBAST I find myself in Jane’s presence once or twice a month, to pay a bill and exchange points of view along with the transfer of cash. She’s as stout and comely as she is German and female, and her political inclinations stem from her gut reactions to the world rather than from historical, social, or broader sorts of empirical, or theoretical, ana...
August 27, 2004 by WiseFawn
BLISTERING INDICTMENTS OF AMERICA’S PERVERSE PROPENSITIES MUNDANE MADNESS AND GIGGLES OF GLADNESS People always ask, “how do you get these stories?” My normal answer refers to my “wide network of contacts,” with allusions to Andes Mountains listening posts, agents under cover of disguise, etc. Generally closer to the truth would be a simple statement. “I listen closely and compassionately to the people you dismiss or derail before they speak to you, whom you judge, ...
August 26, 2004 by WiseFawn
OF AMERICANS, BY AMERICANS, AND FOR AMERICANS (AS LONG AS THEY’RE RICH) To Begin W.B. Yeats put the case starkly. “This is how the world ends, this is how the world ends, this is how the world ends---not with a bang but a whimper.” This land is so full of wealth, so bursting with the hum of yum and the thrum of fun, at least in the surreal “Reality TV” versions thereof, that imagining ourselves as on the brink of self-induced destruction is difficult to countenance. “Wha...
August 21, 2004 by WiseFawn
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August 18, 2004 by WiseFawn
59 years ago, Japan was prostrate. It’s military, still potent on paper, could not project itself beyond the islands of the Japanese homeland. The nation had suffered losses of over a million citizens as a result of the war it had started. The government was preparing to surrender on the terms ultimately accepted by the United States. Knowing the end was near, the military and administrative leaders of the U.S. wanted a final demonstration project to end the conflict. Over ...
August 18, 2004 by WiseFawn
IGNORANCE IS EASY & COOL, KNOWLEDGE HARD & HOT, BUT WE STILL MAY CHOOSE, TODAY, THOUGH PERHAPS TOMORROW NOT The signs crop up everywhere, quite compelling in their expression of the dire straits of humankind and the importance of peace. “WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER!!” they shout, showing us the image of a startled dove, rising---olive branch clasped in its beak---in search of some landing spot. Unfortunately, not only are the signs 100% wrong, they are actually utter nonsense. ...