Saturday, May 23, 2009

Sidewalk Warrior


Here's a dilemma for the politically correct.

If people can be accused of racism, xenophobia or intolerance, then why do animals react the same sometimes?

I was walking down the street the other day and all of a sudden I see a dirty gypsy beggar lying in his own filth. How very typical. What seemed odd, though, was that a dog was angrily barking at this man, which made me wonder - why the apparently inexplicable aggression towards this person?

Surely, the febrile endeavours of any advocate of political correctness would eventually come up with a solution to this question. I can almost hear it: "the dog had a deviant behaviour", "the animal had not been socialized during infancy" or even "somebody must have taught the dog to specifically bark at only certain categories of human beings, in accordance to their own set of perverted preconceptions"*.

I say nobody likes smelly people. But then again, I'm not so sure about the policitally correct. They might.

* I apologize for my douchey language. It was for illustrative purposes only.

Friday, October 10, 2008

Dr. McCain vs. Barack-o-Rama

Everyone trusted the USA to choose the better of the final candidates... just like in the 2 previous elections.

I'm not sure how anyone could have NOT voted for this lovely ol' chap. John McCain had the face, the skills and the attitude of a killepresident. His broad, charming smile (observable to the right) went straight to the souls of millions of voters.

As a matter a fact, I think it would have sufficed to show the Vietnamese this same smile and he would have been released in no time. And while he was at it, he might have also won the war.

But then again, maybe the Arizona Maverick could have made some sense out of the American economy. Nobody likes people with conservative views these days, though, no matter how much sense they'd make. Not that anyone made any sense.

Now, if we are to compare Barack Obama with any other president, who might that be? George Washington, THE president? Honest Abe? I'd say...

 
I hope you all remember President Reagan.  What a charismatic lad he was before the election, isn't it? And he truly CHANGED America.

Dear God. What is this madness?

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Wish I Was In El Salvador

Along with the watchful garbage can from my previous post here, you can find a lot of funny things on the streets of Bacau, Romania. Here are a couple of examples.

Any non-purist two-tone ska fan out there should get the meaning of this picture.

The perfect example of how third-wave ska and the anarcho-punk ideas muddied ska music. Oh, well, we never liked your purity anyway :)

And here's what happens when you fail at English, sport and graffiti-tagging.

The welcoming entrance to one of the local tennis fields encourages young aspiring tennis players to follow this career.

Romania, always surprising and inspiring.

NOTE: Before people realize I'm plagiarizing Bill Hicks...I'll start quoting Jello Biafra.

Monday, September 22, 2008

In Suspicion We Trust!

During a short 3-days trip to Bacau, Romania, I noticed a most peculiar garbage can near the city centre, of which I took several shots.

The little sticker on the can caught my eye for no apparent reason (initially), so I took a closer look, regardless of what anyone might have thought about a random guy inspecting a garbage can on the sidewalk. I had no idea who glued the sticker there, but I personally thought it was rather funny.

The print read
Wherever you go, whatever you do, whoever you are,

YOU ARE UNDER
SURVEILLANCE


because you are a potential criminal. Perhaps you secretly doubt the sanctity of corporate property, or the validity of laws made by the rich to govern the poor, or the soundness of capitalism itself - we can't afford to assume you don't. That's why there are video cameras pointed at every cashier and police cars circling every block. Left to itself, a state of disorder and inequity returns to equilibrium; our job is to perpetuate this one indefinitely.

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
"in suspicion we trust!"
Have a look for yourself.

It shouldn't take long for any clever lad to realize these are fake and that they come from the nice people at CrimethInc. However, it's rather worrying that there are, in fact, hundreds of video cameras at every corner and in front of every shop all over the city centre. I'm awestruck at how paranoid we've all become and it's really, really sad how the state encourages us not to trust our fellow men.

DIVIDE ET IMPERA!

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Why you can't brag about trying...

...to make the world better by participating in some obscure "global" event (such as tomorrow's World Environment Day) is because you DON'T DO SHIT FOR ANYONE BUT YOURSELF.
Odds are, most participants are teenagers that are just trying to get a day off from school, middle-aged people who've already miserably failed at life or politicians that are just trying to squeeze a couple of more ballots on Election Day.
Sure, the idea sounds good, right?
But come to think of it, what could this particular kind of activists possibly achieve? Clumsily drawing on the asphalt, wearing the same T-shirts as everyone else and coming up with childish slogans are not going to awaken some sort of mass conscience. While some people realize that nobody is impressed anymore with this sort of manifestations, the rest of them waste their time with things like WED.
The true power rests in the hands of those providing the funds and of those implementing efficient solutions. One day a year is not helping us a lot by itself if collective effort is not continuous.

In fact, there are so many special days... that people have forgotten their contribution is needed each and every single day! This is by far the most neglected negative effect of such events - somehow we are constantly bombarded with the idea that we need a special day for everything. I'll tell you when you need a World Environment Day. When you see somebody wasting electricity, that day is World Environment Day. When you see plastic residues piling up, that day is World Environment Day. When you see people TAKING ACTION and cleaning the streets of YOUR town, THAT DAY is World Environment Day.
So please, please, please stop these charades that you call "World Days" or "Global Days". They're getting on my nerves.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

E-books

List of books available for reading/downloading (sorted alphabetically by author's name):

Dawkins, Richard - The God Delusion (coming soon)
Dickson, John - A Spectator's Guide To World Religions (coming soon)
Hoffman, Abbie - Steal This Book
Lewis, C. S. - Mere Christianity
Orwell, George - 1984 (coming soon)
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Perlman, Fredy - Against His-story, Against Leviathan!
Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph - General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century (coming soon)
Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph - What Is Property? (coming soon)
Tolstoy, Leo - The Kingdom Of God Is Within You
Tolstoy, Leo - What I Believe (coming soon)

Opening the PDFs requires Adobe Reader, available here.

Links

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