I hate to say that the world changed on Septembet 11th, 2001 but it did seem to magnify the problems of American society and the United Statesgovernment. It was definitely an historic event and a paradigm shift – usually it’s us stomping around the globe raining terror down on weaker opponents rather than the other way around. Like all big events in history that don’t seem to make sense we try to wrap our heads around the problems in search of answer. You don’t have to be a 9-11 Truther to realize that there are holes in the “official” narrative, but no matter what the real story is the most frightening thing is we are living in a police state where all the old democratic protections are null and void. Young 20 year old’s have no conscious memory of what things used to be like and living in world where it’s considered perfectly normal to be in constant state of fear broken only by shopping sprees. How this will all ultimately play out is still up in the air. What ever you think was the reason for such a horrible crime the fact that the event itself was used to expand police powers and give billions more dollars to our military-industrial complex that has been lacking a bogeyman since the collapse of the Soviet Union. I want to know two things what is the biggest piece of evidence that you feel points to a different or larger story than what we’ve been told and what is the weirdest 9-11 theory you’ve heard. Go!
Karl Rove is typically described as a villain of American politics. I prefer the description of deranged psycho killer when referring to him and the underhanded campaign tactics he popularized.
Corey Haim passed away today. My girlfriend woke me up and asked me to play a game: guess which Corey is dead. I guessed wrong. Not that either Corey was particularly stable or an exemplar of a healthy lifestyle. People will be making a lot of jokes over the next few days, but I think that Corey Haim made a number of enjoyable movies both with and without his similarly-named counterpart. I can’t even count the number of times that I’ve watched Dream A Little Dream or License to Drive and while The Lost Boys isn’t my favorite film, it still holds up pretty well, as does his breakout solo vehicle Fast Company.
Another thing you’ll hear a lot of over the next few days is people talking trash on Corey for his downfall. Corey certainly had a lot of problems. However, it is worth considering for a minute a certain perspective on Corey Haim. You’re a teenager making millions of dollars who can basically have anything you want. You’re constantly surrounded by people taking drugs and probably have a really awesome “doctor” who wants to feed you pills to make you sleep and pills to wake you up. How much chance do you have of coming out a well-adjusted human being, let alone living a long and fruitful life. The list of child stars who were able to make the transition to adult stars is woefully slim (Kurt Russell, Drew Barrymore, Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Astin) while the list of child stars sacrificed on the altar of stardom runs miles long.
It is always a tragedy when a talented and charismatic young person squanders their talent on pills, cocaine and self-destruction. It is even more tragic when the person dies young and doesn’t have a chance to redeem themselves, if not in the eye of the public then at least for themselves.
How would you like to live in a gold encrusted city-state where grown men traipse around in dresses while muttering incoherently to an invisible father figure and blame all wrongdoing on a mythological beast that lives in the center of the earth? I mean, that doesn’t sound weird at all, does it?
Karl Rove is typically described as a villain of American politics. I prefer the description of deranged psycho killer when referring to him and the underhanded campaign tactics he popularized.
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