A Social Technology

While it is clear that people are spending less time with each other than they did before TV and the internet, I've found more people to whom I can relate on YouTube than I ever have in real life.

Disinfo

If you consider yourself enough of a member of the "counter-culture" to be into Richard Metzger, you should check out his YouTube channel. He obviously doesn't have the budget that he used to, but god bless him, he's trying.

Why?

I've long wondered, why is it that Alex Jones doesn't quote from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion? You'd think that kind of thing would be right up his alley. He's certainly had ideas just as incredible as the Protocols. What keeps these truthers and birthers from drawing the line just before they cross over into the totally unpalatable? It's things like that that make believe that Jones and Glenn Beck may be faking it and they don't really believe the shit they say. If they are faking it, however, they're absolute geniuses, which I don't think is the case.

Kick Ass

Here's a great video about those hacked e-mails and why people who think they're evidence of fraud are too lazy to actually read them and find out the truth of what these quotes mean.

Darnit to Heck!

I missed another day. No worries, freespeechvids.com looks like its doing well since TJ decided to take his frustrations out on Christians again. Check it out. The site's down right now due to the excess traffic, but there's a link to the first of his "pwnage videos".

Also, here's an interview with Charles Johnson about "parting ways" with the right.

Gror!

I missed a day of posting. Sorry about that. I had a paper due today that I wanted to finish.

Not much going on today. Charles Johnson says he's not right-wing any more. I'm surprised to see that a lot of the first few comments are supportive.

Desperate People

It just occurred to me that all these 911 truthers and people who follow Alex Jones around are all just really desperate for a metanarrative. These are people who may well be smart enough to know that the things they believe are fucking crazy, but what would they do with their lives then? The feel like they're doing something really important by handing out fliers to people on the subway and protesting at their tea bagger parties. Without that, they'd have to go back to their depressing, pointless lives.