Prolonging The Fast

[poliphilo]

 When I'm on holiday I stay away from the Internet. We had wifi at the rental and Ailz and Ruth had taken laptops with them, but the most I did was look over their shoulders once or twice.  It was so pleasant to be away from the English newspapers that I've prolonged my fast and in more than a week now I haven't even glanced at any of their websites- except on those occasions when Ailz calls me to her computer to show me something particularly funny, gross or annoying in the Mail.

(She's doing it now. Apparently Bruce Willis has a daughter called Rumor who looks just like his current wife and Helen Mirren's first night frock got soaked from walking along a red carpet that had been out in the rain.)

I get my news from the TV. I hate how stupid it is- but the basic info is there- and I can do my own editorialising. I'm taking things steady- a day at a time- but I think I may have cured myself of my addiction to political trivia.

(Here's Ailz again: Kanye West has had his bottom teeth replaced with diamonds and Cybil Shepherd is 62).

Comments

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[michaleen.livejournal.com]

No, you couldn't make this stuff up.

At least the UK had a soft landing. The final days of US empire are already violent enough and, looking at the shameless denial of Republican Teabaggery, I suspect there are plenty of opportunities down the road for full-on self-immolation.

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[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Amen to every word.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The USA is a very uneasy union- held together by flag worship. It wouldn't surprise me if it didn't break down into its constituent parts. I wonder which State or group of States will be the first to declare independence

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[michaleen.livejournal.com]

I wonder which State or group of States will be the first to declare independence.

South Carolina? There is certainly precedent for it and even in these latter days they still tend to be crazier than shit-house rats. One of their Congress Critters screamed out, "You lie!", during Obama's first state-of-the-Union address before the joint chambers.

There has been an Alaskan independence movement for years -- Todd and Sarah Palin were, and perhaps are, involved -- but it has gone nowhere. The Republic of California has been booted about, but since the state is ungovernable now, it is absurd to imagine that independence might change that.

The problem with any such scenario is that those regions in which an independence movement might gain the most support -- the Carolinas and the Deep South, where Republican racism and teabaggery are strongest -- are also the most dependent on Federal tax dollars for their continued survival.

So, within the territorial US, it is all sound and fury, signifying nothing. The big threat to us -- and the world -- are Republican teabaggers gaining unchecked control of the armed forces, again.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Again?