http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:32:54 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:32:54 Beyond The Soaring Rhetoric of Obama's Cairo Speech: A Toxic Innocence At Home
by Phil Rockstroh


Even as President Barrack Obama waxed eloquent in Cairo, Egypt, on the moral imperatives of the community of nations, public opinion polls released in the United States revealed that, by a substant... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/22 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:42:53 From time to time, events unfold that are so large in scope, so all-encompassing in their implications that one's initial response is muted by an inability to categorize it all within the realm of experience. Previous reference points prove of little service. One's image of oneself and one's place i... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/21 Wed, 27 May 2009 17:09:07 Fastened To A Dying Animal: a short jeremiad regarding that affront to the nation's dignity known as the US election process
by Phil Rockstroh

Here in this crumbling empire once known as the American republic, here in a nation that, at present, for all practical purposes, only produces Cheetos a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/20 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:57:02 "We must become the change we want to see."
-- Mahatma Gandhi

"In any case, I hate all Iranians."
--Debra Cagan, Deputy Assistant Secretary to Defense Secretary, Robert Gates

How many times do we, the people of the U.S., have to go around on this queasy-making merry-go-round of propaganda an... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/19 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:36:39 A Conservative's Garden of False Narratives: Who are you calling a moonbat, anyway?
by Phil Rockstroh


One would think that from the cries of (feigned) indignation and calls for repentance arising from conservatives regarding Move-On.org's ad in the N.Y. Times that the liberal-leaning group had... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/17 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:33:44 A Disneyland of Militant Ignorance: The American Normalization of Mass Murder
by Phil Rockstroh


Given the nation's tottering infrastructure, imperial overreach abroad and vandalized constitutional process by a lawless executive branch, what will it take to scare the general public, mainstream ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/16 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:22:37 Tales of Angst, Alienation and Martial Law: Roasting Marshmallows on the American Reichstag Fire to Come.
by Phil Rockstroh


In this summer of angst and grim foreboding about what further assaults against common sense and common decency the Bush Administration might inflict upon the people of t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/15 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:36:45 What Lies Beneath: Privileged Grotesques, Ordinary Monsters and the Iraqi Deathscape.


At present, George W. Bush is unpopular with the majority of the American public not because of the murderous mayhem he has unloosed in Iraq; rather, his standing has plummeted, due to the fact, he didn't deli... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/14 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:23:08 In microcosmic mimicry of the plight of the besieged middle and laboring classes, my parent's Atlanta neighborhood, as is the case with many others in the vicinity, is being destroyed, in reality -- disappeared -- by a blight of upper-class arrogance. The modest, post-war homes of the area are being... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/13 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:03:01
Within the Architecture of Denial and Duplicity: The Democratic Party and the Infantile Omnipotence of The Ruling Class.

by Phil Rockstroh


Why did the Democratic Congress betray the voting public?

Betrayal is often a consequence of wishful thinking. It's the world's way of deliverin... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/12 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:00:54 Tantrums of Mass Destruction or The Enduring Beauty of Ugly Truth: In Praise of the Shabby-Ass Human Glory of Every Day Resistance.

By Phil Rockstroh


Recent news reports have revealed that the Bush Administration has bestowed upon itself the right to grant itself absolute power if "any inci... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/11 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:15:51 Expanding Markets and Dying Oceans: Eating the Planet Like a Bag of Doritos for Jesus
by Phil Rockstroh

"Standing next to me in this lonely crowd,
Is a man who swears he's not to blame."
--Bob Dylan


It has been reported that George W. Bush is counting on the judgment of history to redeem ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/10 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:09:42 Prisoners of Envy: Wal*Mart Nihilism Versus the Punk Rock of Blogging
by Phil Rockstroh

The Holiday Season has arrived, unfolding before us, like a cheap vinyl wallet, here in The United States of American Express. The days spill forth, their hours comprised of shopping and shooting sprees, of r... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/9 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:13:40 Recently, we've been plied and pummeled with the absurd proclamation that "the system worked" -- that our congressional representatives listened and took note of the collective, antiwar fulmination of the people, registered in our faux republic's latest, sham plebiscite … Yes, I suspect, the politic... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/8 Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:32:47 To Hell with Centrism: We Must Reclaim the Inspired Edge
by Phil Rockstroh

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act".  
--George Orwell

"I don't want to be part of your revolution if I can't dance."
--Emma Goldman


Rumsfeld is gone. Mehlman is gon... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/7 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 04:32:02 Midterm Elections 2006: It's Always Darkest, Right Before ... It Goes Completely Black
by Phil Rockstroh


If voting could change the system, it would be illegal.
--Theodore Adorno

"I can't go on. I'll go on."
--Samuel Beckett


One's actions grow out of one's beliefs. Beliefs grow out o... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/6 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:21:38 Selling Satan: Iraqi War Dead and the Collateral Damage to America's Soul
by Phil Rockstroh

Headline (Reuters): "United States numb to Iraq troop deaths: experts" http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061020/ts_nm/iraq_media_usa_dc

"O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your li... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/5 Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:28:06 Day-to-day life within an empire consists of the deceitful leading the disengaged. Although when the artifice shielding a nation’s populace from the ruthlessness of their leaders begins to fall away, hysteria and displaced rage rises in the land. Ergo, in the American empire, we’re witnessing these ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/4 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:54:08 Six Flags Over Neo-Nuremberg: Bush, Oprah, The San Diego Chicken, And A Proto-Fascist Panopticon Of The Mind

By Phil Rockstroh


Many believe fascism will come to the United States of America resembling contrived spectacles such as The Super Bowl, The Academy Awards, and American Idol, with th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/3 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 07:17:49 A Soul Defying, Tacit Approval Of Torture: How Did We Come To This?

by Phil Rockstroh


"True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that False Self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality ... and through this death a rebirth, the ego now being th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/2 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 04:58:17 Reflections On Our Inner Bush: Corporate Monkeys In Our National House Of Mirrors

By Phil Rockstroh



“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts’ desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.'' -- H.L. Mencken, Baltimore Su... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Phil Rockstroh/1 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:28:54