No matter how much you trim your exterior, your bloody character will show one day anyway. The knife won’t help your psyche, unless you go for a lobotomy. So try to impress the other side with your character if nothing else …
No matter how much you trim your exterior, your bloody character will show one day anyway. The knife won’t help your psyche, unless you go for a lobotomy. So try to impress the other side with your character if nothing else …
After several thousand years of bloody justice and millions of executions we should have figured out that neither capitol punishment, religious rules nor brutal torture will stop crime.
Harsh punishment won’t bring back dead people, nor does it make those left behind feel better. It is simply a convenient way for society to get rid of people who failed, are criminals, made a serious mistake or are simply sick.
Maybe time to try something different?
It hardly will get any cheaper and our reserves will become less and less … so let’s use oil for heating and driving sports cars, fight more wars for it … makes perfect sense …
BBC News: Burma junta faces monks’ challenge
Hopefully this will start a peaceful transition in Burma. One of this little corners on our planet that have been suppressed by nasty politics and ignored by western media.
On a side note: peaceful (street) protest is still a strong political weapon and can change dreadful conditions. Maybe the Muslim World should take a hint from Gandhi and these Buddhist Monks? And lazy blogger like me should also take to the streets once in a while …
Ahh, Saturday is one of my favorite day of the week: watching Bill Maher, having a nice breakfast, no clients calling and today fabulous sunshine. Today I posted some oldies and a longer new essay about Webslutism.
The ‘original’ - Guido Reni’s San Sebastian.
Japanese writer Mishima posing for the same position.
Pamela going for dollars.
Piere and Gilles - the high Priests of Gayness in Art
Classical themes are still alive and kicking - we just often don’t recognize their heritage in a new composition. Their are deeply rooted in our collective art memories.
Remember when your bath tube seemed big and vast - a great naval empire to explore?! Did you ever try to catch your farty bubbles?!
Image: Jacques-Henri Lartigue
We are all idiots on this world - because none of us has figured out what’s it all about. But we can share the madness, beauty and laughter - and finally die in the end.
And dying is a stupid thing to do anyway … but we all do it.
Owning an electric guitar will result in great songs, free drugs and blowjobs.
Yeah, the genetic power of breeding. Just watch this great animation by Lev … [mildly NSFW, but amusing]
There are several American ’security experts’ and weirdos who say, that Europe is the real threat to American security - because it is the perfect breeding ground for terrorists.
The shoe bomber was a British national - right! The killer of the Dutch director van Gogh was also born in the Netherlands - right! Didn’t Germany harbor a cell of 9/11 terrorists - right?!
According to some sources somewhere between two to seven million Muslims live in the US - while Europe has around twelve to twenty million.
First of all they are not just ‘one kind of people’. Germany is host to many Turks, while Britain has people from many Arab nations as well as Asian Muslims. France and Spain are of course closer to African Muslims, because of their history (remember Spain was once conquered by Muslims). They sure are all Muslims, but they share very different backgrounds and languages. Just as many white Europeans are Christians - but hardly all follow the catholic church.
These bloody protestants - all terrorists! Burn them all! We need to protect our communities!
Many Muslims are living at the fringes of normal European societies, which is normal for most immigrants that have no local family connections, no money and hardly any education in modern jobs. There is obviously the language barrier and some xenophobia as well. But even ‘native’ Muslims in their third or even fourth generation live at the fringes. Why? Because many of these cultures simply stay within their own ghettos. We have Turks here in Germany who lived here for thirty years, but hardly speak German, know teutonic culture or have even contact to any Germans. They stay in their little Istanbuls and prefer it that way. The same is true for many communities in France, Britain, Netherlands etc.
But makes such a strong and rather stubborn refusal against integration everyone a terrorist? Of course not.
Uhhh, scary Muslims …
First of all we simply can’t and won’t control these 20 million people. We Germans already tried that method - it was called Konzentrationslager. Yes, immigration is a problem here, but it is not a flood of Muslim hordes sweeping Europe.
Of course we have also problems with terrorists here - but which one do you mean? IRA? ETA? Red Brigades? PKK? Or even Neo-Nazis? Al Qaeda is simply the newest member of a very annoying club. And once again we refuse to let them dictate our life’s and civil liberties. And there is no protection against them: even Muslim countries get bombed by Muslim terrorists. Plus no law or a gazillion policemen will guarantee absolute security. That is an illusion.
No headscarfs and bombs allowed in European schools
So yes, we Europeans want these Muslims, even though we still stay strangers to each other and still have to learn a lot on both sides to live with each other.
If America feels threatened by foreigners, then it should remember it’s old isolationist’s traditions and maybe shutdown it’s borders - Japan did this for several hundred years more or less successful.
One of my childhood heroes. Just loved his funny movies. I am not sure if many people outside France really know him - but here in Germany his movies were very popular. Especially loved his Gendarme / Inspector of St. Tropez and Fantomas series.
So very different from Peter Sellers version of a french policemen.
Some videos to watch: Herr Müller, Fantomas trailer and a typical case of Louis madness.
More? Offical site
Yeah, for a lot of money you and your coworkers can visit some freakish team building seminar, hug each other and throw your boss off a cliff - just to feel good. Actually - for punching someone in the face you don’t need to go to such a place.
Science us the ultimate tools to understand and appreciate the beauty of this great cosmos. Intelligent design doesn’t need an intelligent designer …
Imagine you are little kid - and suddenly strangers arrive at your home and tell your parents you are the next Dalai Lama or some other spiritual higher being. Then you are fucked. Your childhood - gone. The chance to be a normal person - gone. The ability to develop and lead a boring life - gone.
You will be trained and indoctrinated according to some old tradition. You will continue a line of people and rulers you never met and maybe never wanted to meet.
Is this really the continuation of a spiritual line or simply the total rape of a young life in the name of religion? It’s certainly nice to breed your leader according to your ‘books’ - but is it real?
Looks like that Pakistan - together with embattled Iraq - is the biggest breeding ground for terrorists? Sure many Taliban fighters fled from Afghanistan to Pakistan, but the country itself has many problems with fundamentalists, which tried to bomb it’s way to power.
Pakistan has a sad and terrible history as a country. It’s birth was the result of civil war in India and so far the tension was never gone. Pakistan should never be allowed to sink into chaos, because of it’s stockpile of nuclear weapons.
Pakistan is also a hot potato for the US - like Saudi Arabia: they both are getting weapons and protection - and both their societies support terrorism. Very tricky situation.
So it’s no surprise that Osama bin Laden actually called this week for an overthrow of the Pakistani Government. If Fundamentalists would rule in Pakistan they instantly would have loads of cash, a big Army and the whole range of WMD’s for fun.
Behold the Power of the Princess Salome [make sure to read about her story before continuing]. Her innocence and tempting fertility drives the King and his Court mad. Her display of beauty, untamed sexuality and an almost childish mindset make her an explosive mixture.
While a Queen has to accept the limitations of power and responsibility - the Princess is allowed to play, tease and make mistakes. Since only her fertility mattered in the old days - nobody cared about her character, education or overall potential as a human being.
Be charming! Be fertile! Be tempting! But nothing else …
You find in almost all culture ritualized displays of female fertility (and male shows for courage etc.). It was and still is part of the ‘wedding porn’ of human culture. Picking the best DNA to breed with. The play between the young female and society is nothing else but a cow market at best and simple entertainment at worst.
The Princess shows off her wares for attention and maybe a good marriage deal. She doesn’t need any personality or any skills, just be fertile, healthy and mildly attractive - so society can project it’s desires and dirty thoughts onto you.
Hey, I used to be news …
Amanda Congdon and LonelyGirl belong to the new Cast of WebFems - who like Salome dance before the Kings behind the other side of the monitor. Give them a video stream or a blog - and they immediately attract hungry male eyeballs and curious girlies.
Dance Princess dance, maybe the Audience grants you a wish or some fame for actually doing nothing.
Uhhh, save me Knight of shining Armor …
It seems like that anything young with breasts is able to create their own cult within minutes these days. Salome’s dance on speed with a million Kings watching.
Although most gurls (to use a web 1.0 expression) have hardly anything interesting to say or are hardly entertaining. It’s like New Orleans: flash your titts to get some simple beads [Mardi Gras].
It is called dicktionary for a reason …
My favorite piece of video mouseturbation is YouTube’s Hot for Words. She actually has something to say about words, but even without sounds she makes any healthy male hump their monitors.
She is Princess Salome with a Dictionary.
So is this the Future of Girl Power? Is this what’s left of Feminism in the Web 2.0 age? Playing Porn Princess Salome on YouTube, MySpace and all the other Mekkas for mouse clicks?
Where are the smart girly role models? An aggressive form of Sluttism seems to be the way to go. Celebs like Pamela Anderson and Paris Hilton all have ‘leaked’ their Vaginas to the net. Brittney Spears and her entourage of drunken blondes compete almost daily to show their pussies to anyone with a camera.
Is that the formula and message for modern girls: show your cunt and you become a real person?
Dear Salome - you have started a terrible trend.
Final had some time to write down my ideas about new fascism and the USA. Maybe a bit overkill? But it feels good to have some time for deeper essays and not just eye candy. 
Happy Weekend!
John Singer Sargent has created many trivial paintings like family portraits - but he also created a few magical ones. Whoever Madame X was - Sargent has captured her beauty and fascination well. A dream on canvas.
People love to watch people who watch other people.
[Warning: long rant ahead ... skip if you are bored by politics ...]
For years now political blogs have branded the Bush regime as a fascist elite - transforming the US of A into a Brown State.
If you search Hitler+Bush on Google you get a gazillion articles and images - plus reports like that (father of a fallen soldier beaten up by pro war citizens) and this (student gets tasered by the police asking annoying questions) seem to support the argument. The US is slowly turning into a new Nazi Germany.
I think it’s fundamentally wrong to compare modern forms of Fascism always with old ones from the Hitler era. Like Democracy all forms of government change and adapt - even the bad ones.
For example: today society ‘exists’ more in a virtual form instead of ‘the street’. So you no longer need many thugs or brown shirts to push your agenda. Mental control and groupthink work today much better then 1933 - especially in a ever more complex and diverse media world. There is much more entertainment, hobbies and consumerism out there to distract you from ‘real’ life and politics then 1933.
Most people are afraid of real freedom and complexity. They love almost anything that ‘makes nasty stuff and thoughts’ go away. It doesn’t matter if it’s a pill against restless leg syndrome or immigrants - something easy to swallow is preferred over anything complicated or personal involvement.
Dude, this Democracy stuff is hard work …
Typical right wingers or conservative have this symptom ("We are the good ones, all others are bad.") as well as those who are so called green and progressive types ("Back to nature, modern science and/or corporations are destroying us!").
Shocking! Amazing! Incredible! *
PS: Make sure to also read the comments
Thanks Edosan for this nasty link!
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Vlad Gerasimov has a HUGE collection of well designed wallpapers. Normal sizes are for free - bigger ones cost you some Euros. I actually think his work is worth some cents since it is well made and he offers a great site and support.
Thanks Edosan for the link!
Theme spotting for beginners - can you see Mr Hoppers ongoing objects and subjects?
