October 12, 2008
There is a nefarious movement seeking to associate Barack Obama with "Arab" in the hope that this will cost him the election. This is part of a general increase in anti-Arab and anti-Muslim expression in American culture -- both the instrumentalization of hate for political purposes and its frighte...
go to article »October 9, 2008
Now, there's a candidate I can support.I was disappointed there were no knockout blows during yesterday's US Presidential debate. There were many chip shots, cheap shots, and chop blocks; a few attempted free throws, and even what I would say was one case of McCain committing unsportsmanlike conduc...
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"Are any of you people George Obama?"That bio-assassin who helped swift boat John Kerry, and is now seeking his next Olympic pay off with a Google-dependent attack book on Obama, got third-worlded in Kenya.By the way, "getting third worlded" is KABOBfestese for anytime a first world citizen (or uppe...
go to article »October 7, 2008
1. Last weekend's box office leader was a romantic comedy about dogs (and a chihuahua voiced by George Lopez, who else?). 2. Religious clerics of the three monotheistic faiths (and Mormons) gathered in Huntington Beach, CA to bless the waves for surfers. However well-intentioned this show of theolo...
go to article »September 30, 2008
Is it just me or is this the odd couple? In this interview with Katie Couric, the duo look like grandpa's sticking up for his granddaughter against the mean "gotcha" journalists. She recites a very limited array of frames, repeating "terrorists" several times, as he tries to confuse with babble an...
go to article »September 17, 2008
Gabriel Schwartz, pre-robbery. A GOP delegate from Colorado who ranted to media about the need to bomb Iran to protect Israel got a little taste of what it's like to be a third world country. Gabriel Nathan Schwartz (no relation to the famous rap duo), an attorney, thought he was going to neek a hot...
go to article »September 10, 2008
Although I like hockey-moms and dogs-in-makeup, Sarah Palin's foreign affairs experience goes uncomfortably well beyond her state's proximity to Russia. It seems she flies the flag of a foreign nation in her gubernatorial office, as revealed in a local Alaska interview early this year. This does no...
go to article »September 3, 2008
Maybe we're all de-sensitized anyways.At the risk of feeding into the soap opera-quality of American electoral politics, I wanted to add some insomniac thoughts about Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol to a previous KABOBpost.While I agree her daughter's pregnancy...
go to article »August 29, 2008
Delusions of Grandeur, Phallic Symbolism, Imperial Decor, and the Next Emperor.Perhaps, I'm reading too much into the aesthetics of Obama's acceptance speech last night, but am I the only one alarmed by it? Seemed a little too cult-worship-like. It is the way of the American brand of politics -- mar...
go to article »August 27, 2008
Though he dropped out of the race in February for a lack of support -- even from his own family -- Chaim Sugarman's candidacy may be back from the dead. A local news station in an unnamed city is reporting an organic movement to support the one-time candidate.Following the Obama campaign's nominatio...
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