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You are not alone in your

artappraiser — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:42:28 +0000

In reply to An interesting aside: I just

You are not alone in your thoughts, Orlando. Ran across three guys basically joking about your point the other day on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/arabist/status/343068538950537216

(Ibish is a prominent Arab-American, Arabist is Issandr El Amrani, a Moroccan-American blogger who's been in Egypt for at least a decade, and Gara is an Aussie writer working in NYC. I was wondering if Issandr's Amreeka is special was meant along the lines of Dana Carvey's Church Lady from Saturday Night Live.)

An interesting aside: I just

Orlando — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:08:45 +0000

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An interesting aside: I just spent 10 days in Myanmar and while I was there I read Orwell's Burmese Days and a travel/political history book called Finding George Orwell in Burma.

In Myanmar, they jokingly refer to Burmese Days, Animal Farm, and 1984 as "the Burmese trilogy." While my experience in the country was very different from the experience of the journalist who wrote Finding George Orwell..(published 10 years ago), I still experienced enough to understand that the United States is so far away from "Big Brother" as to make any claims to the contrary patently ridiculous.

At the end of the day, we

moat — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:10:38 +0000

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At the end of the day, we must overstate the bottom line that accounts for the prevalent weltanschauung castigating our post colonial empire in order to disenable the misunderstood degree of manufactured discontent over just how badly the financial elites have cluster fucked general prosperity.

Because if we didn't use the mangled semaphore of post collegiate frat jokes to outline the undeniable eclat of improperly quoted French words, hardly a word would be heard.

Certainly not a discouraging one.

Adding, from me: WMD (too

Michael Maiello — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:52:52 +0000

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Adding, from me: WMD (too vague, say the weapons to mean).

Adding, via Wolraich: All Bush era intelligence failures as a reason for not supporting an foreign intervention, in the absence of a compelling reason why the Bush era failures are being repeated.

Yes! Driving me nuts. Also,

Michael Maiello — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:20:10 +0000

In reply to Some get old quicker than

Yes! Driving me nuts. Also, "Line in the sand."

Some get old quicker than

A Guy Called LULU — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:56:56 +0000

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Some get old quicker than others. The half-life of this one should have been well before the first time it was spoken.

RED LINE Grrrrr

You're starting to get the

artappraiser — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:49:29 +0000

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You're starting to get the picture, but don't despair. Our metaphors are broken right now so smiley sets [visual language], are sometimes more useful. But wait > > writers like you might find new ones?

The police state is you:

artappraiser — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:58:20 +0000

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The police state is you: ...In 1959, William S. Burroughs wrote this: “A functioning police state needs no police.”....

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Michael Maiello — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:10:24 +0000

In reply to Good luck with that...it's

Good luck with that...it's

artappraiser — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:28:53 +0000

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Good luck with that...it's from the smiley set offered by the publisher you have chosen to associate with, buster...heh heh heh heh.....