"Honestly, the god in me, don't allow for modesty,..."

Hmmm. Apparently somebody at Lionsgate really messed up (The Mad Men Theme, below) and, in so doing, ensured I'll have RJD2's newest, bestest, weak at the knees but hard as day-old jello soundscapes (above) until the day that sucker stops,...or drops. 

Ain't that a bitch. 

A clear and definite reason to live:

At this point, it's kind of embarrassing,...

 

A vision of men, unquestionably different from whatever they're selling,...

 

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Really - based on what he thinks the job requirements are:

I'm over-qualified to replace this guy,...

 

 

 Rap music was on top of black scholarship before society generally:

"Whites fear genetic annihilation because their genes are recessive to the majority of the world’s population, which consists of  people of color – the most threatening being black. Therefore they established white supremacy to prevent people of color from diluting their genes and subsequently rendering them extinct." 

 Some of y'all got a lot of catching up to do,...

 

"Every Celebrity Eminem Has Ever Dissed"

The rapper Angel Haze grew up in a religious community in Michigan that she’s since described as a "cult," and the first secular music she ever heard was on the radio at age 16 in Virginia.

“Beyonce is arguing with her mom because Tina is dating Richard, who is a practicing Scientologist. Beyonce is dead-set against the religion and is worried her mom is getting sucked in.

Beyonce and husband Jay Z are wary of the religion and are trying to get Tina to be a bit more cautious. The relationship is causing big problems between daughter and mother."

  Yle sent out three men – a native-born Finn, an immigrant from Russia and one Somali – to find out how discrimination targets immigrants in everyday life in Finland. According to Yle, all three young men have lived in the country for a long time and speak the local language well, all three had the same cover story related to work experience, income and education. All three applied for a job, applied for accommodation and tried to get into a nightclub under the same conditions.

The programme reveals that at a nightclub, the Somali was denied access by the doorman, while one of the white test team members was let in. At another nightclub the Somali and the Russian immigrant were denied access on grounds that their Finnish driving licences presented as identification were insufficient. The Finnish team member was let in with only a driving licence. The three young men sought the same ten jobs. The native-born Finn was invited to two interviews, the Russian was invited to two and the Somalian was invited to none. A search for rental accommodation also left the Somalian discriminated.

Community board members objected to naming a corner for the late rapper Biggie Smalls because, according to some, he was a criminal, a misogynist — and too fat to be honored.

CB2 committee member Lucy Koteen said she "looked up the rapper's history" and read what she had learned to the full board Tuesday night.

"He started selling drugs at 12, he was a school dropout at 17, he was arrested for drugs and weapons charge, he was arrested for parole violations, he was arrested in North Carolina for crack cocaine, in 1996 he was again arrested for assault, he had a violent death and physically the man is not exactly a role model for youth," she said. "I don't see how this guy was a role model and frankly it offends me."

I'm so glad you asked.

Johnny Cash, admitted long-time amphetamine addict and habitual drunk/drugged driver, only individual in American history to be successfully prosecuted for starting a forest fire, famously sang "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die." Part of Tennessee Highway 31E designated Johnny Cash Parkway.

Willie Nelson, convicted tax evader and marijuana enthusiast arrested numerous times for drug possession. Part of 2nd Street in Austin designated Willie Nelson Boulevard.

Joey Ramone, used Nazi imagery in songs like "Blitzkrieg Bop" and wore swastikas as a fashion statement, sang "I wanna sniff some glue." East 2nd Street in Manhattan near the former CBGBs designated Joey Ramone Place.

This is just white artists; major cities throughout the US are named after genocidal maniacs like Columbus and Jackson, and there are streets and towns throughout the south named in honor of Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest.

(I should add for the record that I am a big fan of Johnny, Willie and Biggie. All have made artistic contributions significant enough to warrant recognition through renaming of streets.)

And did you know Your Street May be Named After a Slave Holder?

 

The Establishment did not engineer their failures. The Establishment predicted their failures, which is not the same thing as causing them.

This sort of thing strikes me as sort of thing the Establishment types talk about when they suggest some in the Tea Party have a "reality problem." It's this relentless doubling-down and never admitting an obvious mistake, always looking for a scapegoat to justify one's own errors.

This is related to, I suppose, the incorrect idea that staking out the Hardest-Core Most Maximalist position in political campaigns shifts the Overton Window in your direction. Oh, it shifts the window a little if you win.

If you lose, it shifts it the other way. It shifts it away from you. It demonstrates, with rock-solid evidence, that you have reached the farthest perimeter of politically-viable thought, and thus sets an absolute boundary on such thought.

Prior to the experiment, one could claim there was no outer boundary on how Conservative one could run, and yet still win; after the experiment, that boundary is located.

…This sort of reality-denying -- for purposes of Never Having To Admit, Not Even Once, You Got A Minor Political Calculation Wrong -- suggests to people that the speaker is simply not to be taken seriously, which is quite the opposite of what the speaker intends.

And quite opposite of what I think would be useful for this country, for I do think the Tea Party would do the country a service by dragging it, kicking and screaming, towards a more representative and smaller-government politics.

But this kind of thing? People shrug and just decide "Write those people off; they're crazy in the first place."