Sunday, August 26, 2012

The Fascists Who Think They're Protesting Fascism


By Dan Hagen
Just look at these people.
Funny that puppets who are working for the interests of fascists carry signs accusing people who are working against fascism of being fascists — and don't even know the difference.
They couldn’t tell you the difference between socialism and fascism if you water-boarded them. That’s a torture practice they approve of, by the way. Fascists always do.
Fascism is this: corporate power worshipped; labor power suppressed; nationalism; disdain for human rights; using scapegoats to direct hatred; avid, bootlicking militarism; rampant sexism; a controlled, dishonest mass media; panicked obsession with national security; religiosity used for political manipulation; contempt for intellectuals, education and the arts; obsession with crime and punishment; rampant cronyism and corruption and fraudulent elections. Those are the elements common to all fascist regimes. But these cretins would have to crack a book to find out they're protesting their own philosophy.
“Education is dangerous. Every educated person is a future enemy,” Gestapo founder Hermann Goering said. And these protesters, who don’t know a “was” from a “were,” would certainly agree.

The Colors of the World


Painting by David Hockney

By Dan Hagen
At Barnes and Noble Saturday, I bought a biography of David Hockney by Christopher Simon Sykes. Shyly but firmly, from childhood on, Hockney recognized and defended his own unique vividness, polishing it into a mirror that reflected the full colors of the world of his times. 
Arriving in LA breathless as a virtually unknown British artist, he was almost immediately dining and conversing with the famous writer Christopher Isherwood and Jack Larson, TV’s Jimmy Olsen of the 1950s. I love finding out about that kind of pleasant strangeness in life.

Friday, August 24, 2012

What a Clever (and Honest) Reporter Could Do...


By Dan Hagen
Mr. R-Money — who flatly refuses to release his tax returns, scrubs the records and e-mails from his time as Massachusetts governor and head of the Olympics, keeps secret details of his job-killing Bain dealings and covers up the names of his bundlers — now presumes to dictate the questions reporters may and may not ask as he vies for the top job in a “democratic republic.”
No surprise there. Being raised as a rich, white, male authoritarian in a church that worships them tends to leave one completely cold to the idea of democracy and service in the public interest.
A clever reporter would agree and then ask, “Why has your campaign declared certain topics off-limits for reporters? What are you afraid of the American public learning about you, Mr. Romney?”

RIP, Cap

Ain't it the truth?