The zombie is a perhaps only slightly exaggerated version of the slave or other member of the lower orders from the perspective of the privileged. Like the hungry poor, the zombies confront the responsible citizen as insatiably ravenous mouths to feed, the "unreasoning mob" itself, human as less than human, pure destructive appetite. At the same time, the terrifying joy of the zombie movie, like the terrifying joy both of other apocalyptic genres and of the slave revolt, lies in the destruction of one form of inhumanity by the other that it has produced, or is produced from it. We witness or continually re-experience the liberating annihilation of the whole constricted, compromised, and evil world, all of its inequities, and all of its false values.
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On “Open Thread”
Pope praises Rebel campaign---- according to ahram online.
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this made me think of you thinking 'bout me last night..........
getting the horns
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yeah, miggs.....removing Mubarak was really, really precipitous.
he had barely 40 years ruling under emergency powers and was a very youngish 84.
he hardly had a chance to prove himself
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what kind of frog do you think we are?
we only like mammals for friends.....
we have the keys to another kinkdom.
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I guess that there wasn't a sufficient quantity of buttock-proof glass available.
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sure it's fun until somebody gets their .... poked out.
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I really didn't think that you were much of a fan, miggs, but our choices concerning Syria are do nothing or do something.
you have a real good option in mind?
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maybe you and Nasrallah could join in drafting a complaint about it, miggs
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for a tv discussion, it was pretty interesting, miggs......and the tad is still hopping mad about Mudd's mud-flinging
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gimme a link to the League chat, kind sir....
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just finished watching the tadpole and an angry CIA op named Mudd with a couple of tv journos on Charlie Rose going on about whether Snowden should be shot or returned and debriefed first.
as the kid was one of the guys that Snowden leaked the stuff to, he was a bit overly sentimental
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Interesting times.
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regional headquarters snubbed, sends complaint to unruly employee.
On “chart/comment at Daniel Silliman’s “Religiously unaffiliated now at 20%””
do your friends agree with that?
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nah, that's probably not the reason.
On “Open Thread”
somebody done you wrong, but Happy Mother's Day, Jade.
On “Ignorance Be Not Proud – All Things Are In Sex Edition”
no problem with people having a special place in their hearts and minds for it, Jason.
but their sorta is a problem when the government uses the law to forbid other types of families from having the equal protection of the law ...without being able to demonstrate a legitimate purpose for the ban.
On “Open Thread”
Catholic school bad girls all growed up.
On “On the Neo-Imperial Interest”
whatever Lola wants
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resistance in humans greatly increases as they dry out and chant Ohm.
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it was, in the first two bodies, more kinetically inclusive than potentially.
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bob, it turned out that Jefferson wasn't everyone........ and that everyone did not at all agree that the purchase was forbidden by the Constitution.......
it seems that neither the Senate, nor the House of Reps, nor even John Marshall and his associates decided that it was.
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that was some right skillful word-slinging. take a bow
On “Open Thread”
Nettie Yahoo
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Nettie's song.