SPAM Museum, Austin, Minnesota

[jackofnightmares]

http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2008/Au ... town.shtml

Thinking about college women today

Another roadside attraction

When I was a hanger on around the CMU College of Fine Arts in the nineteen seventies.

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Babies being born supposed to be such happy a happy occurence so why do I feel such dread.

The Spam Museum?

I guess I must be bored.

Gave all my money away again.

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travails in hyperreality

it is all cultural
since one million BC


that is why women travail

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Old Age, From Youth’s Narrow Prism


She sat silently in a wheelchair, her 93-year-old silhouette stooped in the bathing light. I entered, held her hand for a moment and introduced myself. “Sit down, doctor,” she said politely.

I asked her why she had come to the nursing home, and she described the recent passing of her husband after 73 years of marriage. I was overwhelmed by the thought of her loss, and wanted to offer some words of comfort. I leaned in close and spoke.

“I’m so sorry,” I told her. “What has it been like for you losing your husband after so many years of marriage?”

She paused for a moment and then replied: “Heaven.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/health/02case.html?em

For age is opportunity no less

Than youth itself, though in another dress,

And as the evening twilight fades away

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive ... ?id=173905

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There’s nothing new about Mrs. Stout. She’s a familiar figure in American life, always latent, but coming to the surface in national emergencies. Richard Hofstadter described her mental world in detail.

In the seventeen-eighties she lived in Sheffield, Massachusetts, during a period of tight credit and land foreclosures and was sympathetic to the farmers’ uprising known as Shays’ Rebellion that began there. In the eighteen-fifties she was a non-voting constituent of Senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina. In the eighteen-nineties she was the wife of a Nebraska farmer who joined the People’s Party and voted for William Jennings Bryan and free silver. In the nineteen-thirties desperate poverty drove her to fall for the simple solutions of Huey Long’s left-wing demagoguery, or Father Coughlin’s right-wing demagoguery, which often sounded similar. In the nineteen-fifties she listened avidly to radio personalities like Fulton Lewis, Jr., and Walter Winchell, thought President Eisenhower was a knowing agent of the Communist Party, and was a passionate supporter of Senator Joe McCarthy. In 2001 she knew that the Bush Administration orchestrated 9/11. In 2008 she showed up at Sarah Palin rallies.

http://www.dailyhowler.com/index.shtml

Pam Stout's Page

TEA PARTY LIGHTS FUSE FOR REBELLION ON RIGHT

By DAVID BARSTOW
Published: February 15, 2010

SANDPOINT, Idaho — Pam Stout has not always lived in fear of her government. She remembers her years working in federal housing programs, watching government lift struggling families with job training and education. She beams at the memory of helping a Vietnamese woman get into junior college.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/us/po ... nted=1&hpw

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My bladder keeps me informed of breaking news stories.

Get up at three AM to go to the bathroom and then to decide to check the news. Gunman shoots up the pentagon. Authorities are checking the internet to see what he has posted.

Tt Three AM

Police are looking at possible anti-government Internet postings by Bedell, Keevill said, and still trying to establish his motive for the attack at a doorway to the nation's defense headquarters --

Get up later and see what pen is mightier than the sword and find this


At six AM

Suspected gunman's Internet writings show resentment of U.S., suspicions over 9/11 attacks

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Deep Thinker, have theory will travail.

“Despite what some popular right-wing talk-show hosts claim, Obama is not pushing Marxism, revolutionary or otherwise. The threat is not from socialism in the sense of State ownership of the means of production, much less a proletarian uprising. Rather, he’s pushing good old American progressive-corporate elitism, or corporatism. (Some would simply call it capitalism.) It is anti-free market, but not anti-business.”

If Goldman-Sachs and the auto industry are the new hotbeds of socialism, it’s been a remarkably successful ideology. It’s a success comparable converting the largest cotton planters in South Carolina to abolitionism ca. 1850—while they continued to work their plantations with slave labor.

There used to be a joke in the old Soviet Union about how Leonid Brezhnev proudly showed off his dacha, his car, and his GUM department store shopping privileges, etc., to his mother. When his growing uneasiness in the face of his mom’s silence finally became too much, Brezhnev brought the issue to a head: “Mama, aren’t you pleased that I’ve done so well?” “Well, of course I’m proud of you, Lyonya. But what will happen to you if those awful Communists ever take over?”

Government interventionism does not equate to “socialism,” any more than being in favor of free markets implies a “pro-business” stance. Business interests are some of the biggest supporters of state intervention in the economy, and some of its biggest beneficiaries.

Carlos Watson, at Fast Company, made the mistake of equating libertarianism to the interests of the business community. The best thing that could happen to libertarianism, he said, would be if some prominent CEOs joined the movement.

http://littlealexinwonderland.wordpress ... -business/

[myrna minkoff]