| | rant 239: no, stan, i did not start 9/11
So with another 9/11 passing - this is my 8th, how about you? - I can't help but notice that the conspiracy theories are still alive and well kicking on the internet, including none other than Charlie Sheen:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4559472852690653060#
Weird, isn't it? My response to this is threefold. First, for an intellectual response, see this, including the Noam Chomsky video:
http://www.debunking911.com/massivect.htm
For a simple, eloquent, and honest response, watch this:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103766
There's so much genuine retardation in 9/11 conspiracy discussion it's really not worth time. Controlled demolition? Are you kidding? They take massive amounts of manpower to set up, and Newtonian physics explains pretty much everything you need to know about why a giant tower goes "boom-boom-boom-boom" and falls vertically. Yeah, there was probably some misinformation floating around on 9/11/01, which makes it exactly like every other major multifaceted news event in history. Sheesh. Put your time, and your Nobel-quality physics degrees, towards something truly useful, like fixing our shattered banking system or getting a health care plan that sha-zams its way into paying for itself while beating free-market capitalism.
Anyway, last time I mentioned the joy of riding through the elevated train system through parts of town a non-college educated person would call the ghetto. But since I've read Marx and American Apartheid, I think "fruits of institutionalized racism and class-ism."
Either way, I've noticed some of the clothes poor blacks/Mexicans/heroin-laced white people (I'm sorry if this sounds bad, but really, there's no tactful way of putting it without being dishonest) wind up with are like a mini time-capsule. Case in point would be that in the last two days, I've seen a Jordan USA 9 jersey (obviously faded and not a rebuy due to the HOF election) and a Sammy Sosa jersey. To some, it's a 90s flashback; to others, it's what one could wear that beats the stuff from the resale shop. Tomayto, tomahto.
Between the daily dose of sociology and a few select law cases we've been reading, it's made me think again that all the crap we've done to try and help people from the 60s-on has been a giant ball of wishful failure. And now we're going to have cheap, easy health care for all. Yippee.
That's too much politics, but there's a lot of shit being thrown around right now. Now for something fun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DStIMJ9_8_c
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| | Posted 9/11/2009 8:55 PM - 7 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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