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Am I Over-Reacting?

Or am I right in interpreting this article as indirect class warfare?

Full of Doubts, U.S. Shoppers Cut Spending (New York Times, October 6, 2008)

If the article weren't in the New York Times, I probably wouldn't be so sensitive about it. But I'm tired of the one U.S. paper I can count on in terms of news-worthiness being so biased toward the wealthy. It's that very first sentence that does me in:

"Cowed by the financial crisis, American consumers are pulling back on their spending, all but guaranteeing that the economic situation will get worse before it gets better."

Look, you rich-ass pieces of shit, don't blame me -- the middle class American consumer -- for the worsening of the financial crisis. When the powers that be have built up a capitalist economy overly dependent on growth at any means necessary rather than investment in the welfare of our communities, when 2/3 of that economy is dependent on the purchase of useless junk rather than actual trade or industry, when those same powers that be advocate predatory lending practices and allow huge investment banks to bundle up those mortgages and gamble with people's homes/lives, AND THEN use $700 billion in taxpayer money to bailout these rich assholes, who the FUCK are you to tell me that I'm making it worse by not buying an iPod?

I'm not saying a bunch of idiots didn't buy homes they can't afford, but let's face it: if you base your entire economy on growth and gambling on that growth, you need to keep people buying shit, even when they can't possibly pay for it. That's what credit cards are all about. That's what the subprime mortgages are all about. Neither of these legalized loan sharks should exist, but our government is concerned more about the economy than it is for the welfare of its people.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can say that it's trying to keep the economy going to take care of the people, but that's just bad parenting. That's like that absentee Dad (or Mom) -- the one who works all the time and doesn't take care of their kids, and then wakes up 20 years later and realizes that those same kids he threw money at don't know him and hate him. Meanwhile, the poor schmuck who worked a shit job and just got by is surrounded by a loyal family who take care of each other. You know what I'm saying? I want Government Dad Number Two, not Government Dad Number One.

Back to the New York Times. Take a look at this fluff piece that ran in the same paper:

At Massage Office, Business Is a Chart of Wall Street Nerves (New York Times, October 6, 2008)

Really? That's what we care about? Whether a bunch of Wall Street-ers can afford their goddamn massages? Rich-ass pieces of shit.

Fuck you.

Okay... rant over.

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I Was So Totally Here

To say that the James concert I attended last Thursday at The Vic Theater in Chicago was a religious experience, would not be an exaggeration. That band needs to start a cult. Tim Booth is as close to a cult leader as you're going to get. Check this vid of Sit Down out:


Okay, so somewhere around 3:10 everyone starts singing with him, and they turn the lights on on the crowd, because we're just going and going. It was truly amazing.

And here's Say Something. I was to Mr. Booth's left and he was making eye contact all over the place. One of those "Show me your mind! You are not alone in this world!"s when he's looking to the left was right at me, and it was like a guru telling you that, well, you weren't alone. I'm so not kidding. I know the vid is sideways, but if you're having trouble seeing: yes, he sang the entire song standing on the shoulders of fans.


Amazing.

If only there had been video of Sound. The song was like 8 minutes long and the crowd LOVED it.