Sunday Sept. 10 is the beginning of a long, wonderful journey for most of the 32 NFL Teams. Every team is going for one thing, and that is to be the one who wins that little football game in Febuary.
I personally cannot wait for Sunday to be here. I look forward to this day all year long. My Sunday ticket is fired up, and ready to go. Drinking beer, and watching football all day Sunday with the Wizard. Who would not want any part of that!!!!! It will be fantastic!!!!
As a huge fan of the NFL, I do so love my Bengals and Seahawks. If you are a fan of another NFL team, and would like to comment on what you think of your team this year, I would love to read about it. THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO STEELERS FANS. YOU FOLKS ARE NOT REAL PEOPLE. YOU ARE JUST SICK, AND YOU NEED HELP. GO DRINK THE COOL AID.
Here is a match up list for week 1. You gatta love the Sunday night game featuring QB Eli Manning and the Giants, taking on his big brother QB Payton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts.
Friday, September 8, 2006
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Purge the Universities
Horowitz finally says it. No more hemming and hawing. Just says it.
We're not talking about fair and balanced here. We're not talking about Academic Freedom.
We're talking about making sure that education, particularly higher education, which often contradicts the propaganda that passes for secondary education in this country, gets it right, and acts as the Ideological State Apparatus should: Keeping the Ruling Elite, well, Elite. Berube has more on Althusser.
And I was just getting comfortable...
We're not talking about fair and balanced here. We're not talking about Academic Freedom.
We're talking about making sure that education, particularly higher education, which often contradicts the propaganda that passes for secondary education in this country, gets it right, and acts as the Ideological State Apparatus should: Keeping the Ruling Elite, well, Elite. Berube has more on Althusser.
And I was just getting comfortable...
Monolith: Post 9/11 World
For the last five years, the (Vice) President and his minions have reminded us again and again that the old ways of thinking do not work, that the world is not the same since September 11th, and we cannot continue to think this way.
Yet, time and time again, we have seen the War on Terror bungled, with Bin Laden still at large, and Afghanistan awaiting the Return of the Taliban. Now Pakistan has cut a deal to ease out of the fight.
Add to that, a Civil War in Iraq, a wholly preventable disaster killing our children and theirs, costing billions, and acting as a rallying cry for fundementalists in the regions: a recruiting film, if you will.
Why, you might ask?
It's actually quite simple: Bush et al., for all their bluster about the "new world", are actually operating with an old paradigm. Cheney, Rummy, etc., all Cold Warriors, all evidentally incapable of thinking outside of that monolithic paradigm, vis a vis, Rocky vs. Ivan Drago. Superpowers facing off. Now, the finally said it.
Except that this is not Rocky vs. Ivan Drago. This is not the US vs. USSR. This is the US vs. an innumerable amount of discrete cells, operating all over the region and the world, and multiplying daily. We are the monolith.
The failure of this administration to understand this fact, all the while claiming its critics do not understand, is further proof that, not only is the administration out of touch with the world, it's out of touch with its own people.
Yet, time and time again, we have seen the War on Terror bungled, with Bin Laden still at large, and Afghanistan awaiting the Return of the Taliban. Now Pakistan has cut a deal to ease out of the fight.
Add to that, a Civil War in Iraq, a wholly preventable disaster killing our children and theirs, costing billions, and acting as a rallying cry for fundementalists in the regions: a recruiting film, if you will.
Why, you might ask?
It's actually quite simple: Bush et al., for all their bluster about the "new world", are actually operating with an old paradigm. Cheney, Rummy, etc., all Cold Warriors, all evidentally incapable of thinking outside of that monolithic paradigm, vis a vis, Rocky vs. Ivan Drago. Superpowers facing off. Now, the finally said it.
Except that this is not Rocky vs. Ivan Drago. This is not the US vs. USSR. This is the US vs. an innumerable amount of discrete cells, operating all over the region and the world, and multiplying daily. We are the monolith.
The failure of this administration to understand this fact, all the while claiming its critics do not understand, is further proof that, not only is the administration out of touch with the world, it's out of touch with its own people.
Monday, September 4, 2006
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