that immigration thing

To even enter into the fray of the current immigration debate I'd have to:

1) accept that borders are anything more than imaginary lines
2) pretend that people who are walking distance from a better life won't walk to a better life
3) pretend that language and culture determine the intrinsic worth of humans
4) pretend that the "labor market" is anything more than some made up bullshit to keep poor people fighting each other

if you want me to get more in depth I'd point here.Not that victor speaks for me, but he's plenty smart.

oh and my brother made this poster

denying Hersh

Seymour Hersh has stirred up a bit of troule with this. The vigor with which it is being denied, has me thinking he's onto something. Without a doubt there is contingency planning that includes the possibility of nuking Iran. But there is also contingency planning for invasion from Canada.

What is most distrubing about the discussion of Hersh's writing is the use of "we," reporters and journalists refering to US military plans and planners as "we" says volumes about what is happening in the US today.

back?

I've been busy, new house, new dog, new job. But my brother insists that I have "important" things to say. I think I just say them prettier than him. So I'll be saying them more often.

I have been thinking about spinning off another somthing and calling it "myjackassneighbor.com" sort of a crack head tinkerer version of all those revenge photo sites. This is definately not very important.

I am working on a piece about the hip-hop reniansance that is threatening to break loose this summer. 3 new Public Enemy records in 12 months, plus 2 greatest hits records, maybe a Flav solo record, a DVD concert and video retrospective, and double CD audio documents of the Nation of Millions and Fear of a Black Planet era's. Ice Cube is putting out his first solo record in 6 years, he's squashed the Don Mega persona, the lyrics for the first two singles remind me of Amerikkka's Most Wanted era, in other words a good resurgence of his attitude, politics and intellect. Plus Caitlin's bringing me a promo of the new Coup record as I type. Guerilla Funk continues to release great records at a break neck pace. All in all promising developments.

"excited delirium" or "jackasses unable to correctly state facts"

The local daily has once again made it's readers dumber or angrier, depending on their subjective disposition. In this article about "excited delirium", a new rationalization for police murder, Derek J. Moore states that "excited delirium,' a controversial medical condition marked by extreme agitation that has been blamed for at least one Sonoma County death and dozens more nationwide." The local case he's talking about is the Dec. 7 murder of Michael Tolosko. Tolosko was killed by police, not a panic attack, not methamphetamine, but 3 consecutive Taser shots, which rendered him unconscious,the police then hog tied him with maximum restraint cord. The coroner lists the cause of death as "cardio-respiratory arrest", considering this was the result of a struggle followed by binding, any coroner who knew his trade and had a shred of conscience would call it homicide. If I shocked someone until they were unconscious and then tied them up and left them restrained even though they were unable to breathe, what would you call it?

Excited delirium is just a pseudo-medical excuse for cops to hide behind. "Suicide by cop" has obvious troubles gaining traction in the granola covered hills of Sonoma County, so some pencil pusher at the Sheriff's Department or Coroner's office dug up some crap about "excited delirium" and forwarded it to Mr. Moore, and Moore gets to play reporter. This oozes bullshit, especially when the surviving family has been cut out of the discussion, Tolosko's mother called the police for help and ended up with a dead kid.