My apologies for this being short, however it struck a chord with me personally so I felt I should post it.

In yet another display of the kind of callous disregard and hollow sense of empathy that typifies today's mainstream media, the NYT manages to turn the death of a young man into an advertising opportunity.

Yesterday evening, after having applied what I thought was a fresh anti-conductive sheet of Aluminium (that's al-yoo-miniyum) to the four walls of my isolated mountain cabin, switched my dKoser ring to the conspiracy receptor frequency and made my nightly entry in my manifesto, I came across what may be the most devastating blow to tin foil hattery since the government switched to Kool-Aid^TM...

here.

I totally lose it after the jump.

I will admit that I have suffered a similar letdown based on the limited indictment. But only for a moment, and not in relation to what I'm writing here. Fitzgerald is so good at genericizing the circumstances, and sticking to the book, he could qualify as being a tease although the subject of said teasing may be absent. That said, here's a potential "silver lining", if one can exist in this scenario.

Wheeeee!

The FBI's "Obscenity Task Force" has begun its fascist war on freedom of speech, the right to privacy and adult consent on behalf of Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, and more profoundly on behalf of the Christian Right minority dictating the preznit's policy.

Just to let everyone know, the GOP Rita spinning has started.

Having spent the last nearly 15 years in the graphics, branding and technology fields, I tend to have - in some cases - a somewhat different analytical perspective regarding how we are viewed externally. By that I mean those unfamiliar with the movement, language and idiosyncrasies of the progressive culture, which constitutes roughly the majority of the American population. To most people news is nothing more than a brand, and they focus on headlines that quantify issues for them, not granularities that - although vitally important - are hard to digest and understand without the all-important and increasingly fleeting investment of time. In contrast, the vast majority of  KOSSACKS understand the terminology, focus on the granularities and revel in the stimulation deriviative of such intellectual pursuits. For most, however, this is too complicated. They need Coke, iPods and neat packages.