tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post4722293819866676613..comments2023-12-17T19:35:07.459-08:00Comments on Bouphonia: Really Good ThingsPhilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-48070095804730022102007-12-03T16:24:00.000-08:002007-12-03T16:24:00.000-08:00God, what next. The last I looked, I was one of th...God, what next. <BR/><BR/>The last I looked, I was one of those cops that beat the shit out of that Rodney King character. Hard enough to live with, basically wiping out the positive karma of being a photographer known nation-wide for my treatment of the Viet-Nam Memorial (not incidentally, a nice bit of sensitivity, seeing as I'm not even an American), and at the same time a reasonably well-known academic sociologist operating out of, as I recall, Alabama. Some other minor manifestations, as I recall, mostly in the line of more-or-less minor malignancies such as realtors or the like; nothing that I can't rise above, with a bit of diligent caritas. And now and then there is a flash of the real me, always a welcome bit of validation. <BR/><BR/>But now this. I'm a global warming denialist. One that rose up in a democratic venue and pissed into the lucent chalice of science, for all to see. I am besmirched. And I read it here first.<BR/><BR/>A new terror is brought, willy-nilly, to our horrified attention in this Age of Brass. The Google Doppelganger. Find out in an instant what's being done in your name. Live with it. <BR/><BR/>It's an alias for me, from this day forward.<BR/><BR/>Regretfully,<BR/>(not the above, but quite another) Larry Powell (quondam)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-60773705112894586592007-11-30T04:51:00.000-08:002007-11-30T04:51:00.000-08:00One of the great services Molly Ivins provided was...One of the great services Molly Ivins provided was the reporting on the activities of the Texas legislature. Just when you think that no governmental body could be stupider than congress, someone in a state legislature somewhere proves that it hardly has a monopoly on addle brained idiots. Having seen and known a number of legislators in Maine and New Hampshire (Molly would have had a field day) the only question is whether state legislatures or local government is the real locus of idiocy and corruption. I'm guessing that in most cases it's the locals, on whom no one is reporting except the local rag whose owner is a locally based crook too.olvlzlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15329638018157415801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-5626416452551195292007-11-29T22:50:00.000-08:002007-11-29T22:50:00.000-08:00PhilaI saw your post at Eschaton about "illegal im...Phila<BR/><BR/>I saw your post at Eschaton about "illegal immigrants"who make a difference. The head of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins is an "illegal" from Mexico. Just saying...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com