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The Teabaggers are Peasants

Glen Greenwald:

What’s really happening with these protests is that the genuine rage and not unreasonable economic insecurity of these citizens is being stoked, exploited, distorted and manipulated by movement leaders for entirely different ends. The people who are leading them—Rush Limbaugh, the Murdoch-owned Fox News, Glenn Beck, business-dominated organizations of the type led by Dick Armey—are cultural warriors above everything else. They’re all in a far different socioeconomic position than the “middle-income Americans” whose anger they’re ostensibly representing. Their principal preoccupation is their cultural contempt for various groups (illegal immigrants, the “undeserving” poor, liberals) and their desire to preserve the status quo whereby the prime beneficiaries of government policies remain themselves: the super rich and the interests that control Washington. It’s certainly true that many of these protesters are driven by the standard right-wing cultural issues which have long shaped that movement—social issues, religious fears, cultural and racial divisions, and hatred for “liberals” as Communist-Muslim-Terrorist-lovers. For many, all of that is intensified by the humiliation of being completely thrown out of power, at the hands of the first black President. But much of it is fueled by the pillaging of the corporations and Wall St. interests which own their government.

Matt Taibbi:

Actual rich people can’t ever be the target. It’s a classic peasant mentality: going into fits of groveling and bowing whenever the master’s carriage rides by, then fuming against the Turks in Crimea or the Jews in the Pale or whoever after spending fifteen hard hours in the fields. You know you’re a peasant when you worship the very people who are right now, this minute, conning you and taking your shit. Whatever the master does, you’re on board. When you get frisky, he sticks a big cross in the middle of your village, and you spend the rest of your life praying to it with big googly eyes. Or he puts out newspapers full of innuendo about this or that faraway group and you immediately salute and rush off to join the hate squad. A good peasant is loyal, simpleminded, and full of misdirected anger. And that’s what we’ve got now, a lot of misdirected anger searching around for a non-target to mis-punish . . . can’t be mad at AIG, can’t be mad at Citi or Goldman Sachs. The real villains have to be the anti-AIG protesters! After all, those people earned those bonuses! If ever there was a textbook case of peasant thinking, it’s struggling middle-class Americans burned up in defense of taxpayer-funded bonuses to millionaires. It’s really weird stuff.

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Need cellphone help

Hi there,

I need to get a cellphone. I don't want a two-year plan, which is what many of the major carriers want. A family plan would be great, so we can get the father-in-law a phone. Also a plus would be a phone that could run Android. The cost of the phone is not my main concern, it's the monthly – I'd like to get something pretty low since I hardly make any calls, maybe two or three a day (less than ten minutes).

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

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Gay & Lesbian elders go back into the closet to survive

Gay and Lesbian elders go back into the closet to survive

From Queerty

Know what sucks? When you spend your younger years fighting for gay rights and just trying to survive as a homo in the early 20th century, then grow up to discover your body isn’t as strong as it once was — and are too fearful of America’s discriminatory health care industry that you end up dying alone than seeking help. From director Stu Maddux comes Gen Silent, shining a light on an altogether neglected segment of GLBTs: Seniors, many of them without kids to care for them now, who were taught to run from hospitals, not to them.

EAT HERE

San Tung Chinese Restaurant in the Inner Sunset.

Order the Dry Fried Chicken Traditional (like in the picture). It is phenomenally good. It is one of the best chicken dishes I’ve ever had. EVER.

If it’s cold, bring a coat because there’s always a line to get in and they don’t take reservations. A 45-minute wait on weekends is normal. We went tonight at 6:00 and waited twenty minutes (not so bad, we watched the sunset).

Well worth the wait!

The Same Sex Marriage issue can be confusing

Maybe this can help. 

Same Sex Marriage Flowchart – CLICK TO ENLARGE

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Is this a virus?

On both my Safari and Firefox, this crap shows up when I attach a file. 

What is this?

I have only noticed this on the attach dialog box for Safari and Firefox. Never saw it anywhere else. 

Weird.

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100 ways to waste your time

Urlesque published the 100 Most Iconic Internet Videos of all time on their site. It is absolutely worth your time to go watch every one of them. My only complaint is that they didn't have my Haight Street Parking Argument video, which surely should have been in there somewhere.

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PSA for Parents with Teens about Sex

Talk to your kids!

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A WoW mod I’d like to see

I play World of Warcraft. It's a fun hobby.

People release "mods" for this game – modifications to the software to allow for extra features or to tweak the UI in some manner.

I have two monitors, an increasingly common setup. I would love for a WoW mod to take advantage of two monitors. To illustrate my point:

Here's how WoW looks on my dual monitor setup now:

WoW on my monitors now

And here's my dream mod, which would allow for two monitors, sending all the junk onto the secondary screen (just as I do now with palettes on Photoshop:

the WoW mod I’d like to see

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