Agitprop: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Propaganda

Can I Just Say One Thing?

Man, FUCK the Beatles.

Yoko Ono is a fucking hero.


Play Revolver the new Beatles, first person shooter video game! Now in stores!

Or listen to Revolver by Rage Against the Machine:

Organic Teabagging

Since Mackey wrote his op-ed, I've been to Whole Foods about four times. Before that, I hadn't been in several months.

Others have taken notice, albeit for a different reason...

The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition kicked off a series of "buycotts" in Dallas and St. Louis on Tuesday, asking consumers to support Mackey by doing their entire week's grocery shopping at Whole Foods that evening. Meanwhile, conservatives and libertarians of various stripes are blogospherically smacking their lips so loudly you'd think they just had a helping of Chilean sea bass en papillote from the Whole Foods deli counter.

"If the brainwashed, hemp-smoking zombies of the left stop shopping there, we conservatives can fill that market hole," wrote an anonymous poster on the blog Conservatives for Change.

Conservatives for Change? Huh? Sounds like a bunch of oxymorons to me.

Sometimes you feel like a blawg. Sometimes you don't.

It's unfair to cast every astroturfer as a mere pawn of the insurance industry. There are legitimate concerns over a government-run health care program. However, the cream ("Obama wants to kill Trig Palin!"..."Nancy Pelosi will euthanize my grandma instead of treating her gout!") rises to the top. There's so much god damn noise in this debate that I've tuned it all out. 

Republicans and their corporate enablers know well how to churn up the fury in a crowd. But little does the crowd know that the program we will end up with will not be universal, nor single payer, nor even contain a public option. We'll get some Democratic corporate enabler-approved shit packaged in a shiny Obama logo embossed box with a grinning Reid and Pelosi standing by while Chairman Mao gives his Herbie John Hancock to the bill. They will declare Mission Accomplished and then move along. These are Democrats, remember?

Robert Kelly, a commenter at Crispin's place, captures my mood:

The thing I've taken from this is witnessing the unbelievable incompetence of the Democratic Party. Listening to the rhetoric from the Right, I'm expected to believe that liberals are ushering in an age of commie-fascism. Now, one day in 2003 millions of people, globally, protested the Iraq War. Hundreds of thousands protested in New York City alone. I wasn't likely to join them, but fat lot of good they did.

Listening to the Liberal Left, a hundred or a thousand people show up at a Town Hall meeting and I'm expected to believe *this* is the next coming of fascism. And these crowds, mobs, whatever, are still boring and stupid; bullying, selfish and utterly reactionary. Is it really that difficult to send the Democrats into a panic? I'm shocked that the Trotskyist cults, neo-hippies and anarcho-communists haven't cooked Tim Kaine in a pot for lunch and eaten him.

I wonder what Tim Kaine tastes like. Probably chicken.