the ends

Happy 9-11 Day, or whatever it is that we’re calling the Never Forget anniversary of the day of the pure event which is the essence of all the events that never happened.
References to The Event have been relatively few and far between on Toxic Culture, and yet, in some ways, it underlies almost every post.
Take [...]

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Obama: A New Kind of President!

How nice that our new Attorney General Eric Holder came down to Selma this weekend to wag his finger at a gathering of over 500 people and tell them that they needed to get busy defending the Voting Rights Act. Never mind that he is the one in the position to repair a mutilated DoJ [...]

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Checkpoints and Border Birthing

Welcome to freedom loss in the name of safety, residents of Mobile, Alabama.
If you live in Roger Williams Homes, a public housing neighborhood presumably named after a theologian who promoted freedom and independence, you have now been informed that public housing ID cards are now required. The head of this Mobile housing operation seems like [...]

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Veteran’s Day 2008

It’s time for a holiday. We all know so very well why we aren’t trucking off to work today. It was something about that railway car in Compiègne Forest, right?
So of course we are going to spend our day talking about the Eastern Front of “The Great War,” debating Prussian strategy and trying to figure [...]

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A Few More Crazy Reads…

I know that these “link heavy” posts don’t technically “count” as blog posts, but I do like to share the wealth of some of the amazing stuff that I come across during the day. Here are a few things I forgot to include in yesterday’s links-o-rama post:
1. Get ready to be even more proud than [...]

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The Blood to Make a Nation

It’s fun to talk about Palin and whether she is a religious lunatic (yes) a former member of a radical fringe separatist group (also yes) and whether she is remotely qualified to serve as our nation’s chief executive (clearly not). There are lots of exciting gender-themed conversations to have about whether the GOP talking points [...]

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Picking Through Memory, Picking Through Rubble

It seems so long ago that our nation of feeble-minded citizens was convinced that bombing Afghanistan would somehow balance the scales for 9-11. It seems like swirling mists of time cloud our ability to remember back to those days, before there was such a thing as Facebook. If only the ravaged nation of Afghanistan could [...]

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Some good news

Indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic was captured today in Serbia after twelve years on the lam. Evidently he was hanging around Belgrade for much of the time, but there was a lack of political will to bring him in to stand trial. Probably the fact that his capture (and the capture of other indicted war [...]

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Mothers of Crime Invention

Since yesterday was Mother’s Day, it is worth briefly noting that our American version of Mother’s Day was loosely inspired by a British day and was imported by social activist Julia Ward Howe after the Civil War. However, unlike today’s version of a disgusting phone company-inspired tear-jerking holiday commercial or the environmentally-irresponsible mass purchase of [...]

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How Can We Sleep When the Beds Are Burning?

I was just talking to a friend of mine, saying that it was an exciting time to be a policy debater engaged in discussions of world events. But at the same time, it is kind of scary to be a citizen in the world, as shit explodes around the globe. Enjoy your time in your [...]

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