The Empire State Strikes Back!!!
I’ve been rather busy the past few days: I spent all hallow’s eve dressed up as Don Draper and/or Chuck Bass (depending on how you viewed my particular sophistication of inebriation and/or debauchery that night) along the streets and boulevards of a dimly, unnamed city. It was much like any other city and any other night, but it was my city, it was my night. This was duly followed by a 12-hour Guy Fawkes sports viewing marathon, ably aided by anonymous regulated substances- better living through chemistry!- and a feeble attempt to organise whatever shards of lucid thought I had left into digital papyrus. It was somewhat of a bittersweet endeavour, appropriately helped by imbibing Victoria Bitter (just an awesome, proper beverage mind! Doesn’t taste like pissantly pants American supermarket beers but it doesn’t go Soviet on you either-tastes great even when it goes warm and you’re too arsed to get ice cubes nor does it hammer and kick you in the head the next morning with a truly, truly painful hangover and an unknown female bedmate…anyway); the Reds drew with Lyonnais and the great Bosphorus Rafa Benitez was then heaped with more undeserved pressure and criticism from the ignorant media and worse, so-called Liverpool fans who buy into what pundits spit-out. Good thing however, was that the Yankees, after 9 long fucking years, won their 27th World Series Championship- 9 years for redemption, 9 years to get back to greatness. Very happy for the Core of Four, for A-rod, for Hideki, for my home. The Empire State Strikes Back!!! Start spreading the news, big lights will inspire you, it’s up to you, NEW YORK, NEW YORK!!!
Those things aside, here are two great articles from Slate.com for weekend reading- the first is about the pandering done by Republicans to the populist insanity done by the misinformed/uninformed. As much as I have characterised Democrats for lacking courage and worse, participating in shameful acts of appeasement, fault and scorn must be given to a lot of Republicans for catering to these idiots, led by those loudmouth, ethos/pathos loving, fear-mongering retards over at some network, who have completely seceded from reason and sense (Yes. That was an Ad hominem, Eminem).
The second article devotes its effort towards a discussion of the reasons behind the fall of the Berlin Wall, its symbolism, mythology and subsequent effects throughout post-Soviet Europe.
http://www.slate.com/id/2234724/
http://www.slate.com/id/2234101/
Enjoy.
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