Smells like Utah, tastes like Holland, By Mark Morford

[madokie]

And then it came to pass that they almost shut down the entire U.S. government over -- what was it again? -- condoms and pap smears and those ever-horrifying, omnivorous vaginas? Right.

Let us now note in our sparkly unicorn dream journals this rather pathetic eyeblink of time, one of those definitive, all-American moments when it was once again made absolutely clear just exactly why everyone from every stripe and creed absolutely hates the federal government and politicians, particularly the right-wing versions who heartlessly dredge up a vile and exhausted issue like abortion and a fine cause like Planned Parenthood, and hurl them like bloody grenades to sicken your soul.

Ah, abortion, the single issue no one in America save for fringe religious fanatics cared to have regurgitated in the public debate, a fact that didn't stop the GOP, which saw an opportunity to create wedge and hate and gain evermore power, as women across the nation felt an all-too familiar icy shudder pass through their ovaries, the same bolt of cold misogyny they've felt ever since the first church elder put quill to parchment declaring them all whores and temptresses and repositories of unclean menstrual blood. Except for the virgins. Who were, of course, even scarier.

But let us not get caught up in the savage and unsolvable abortion debate right now, because there are far more fascinating and demonic energies afoot; why, just over here we find that, in the latest example of our insatiable appetites for cheap energy no matter what the cost to land, life, beauty, or anything of value beyond powering the bleak engines of capitalism, a Canadian company is now fast proposing to start strip-mining huge and pristine swaths of Utah. ...


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[krispos42]

1. Omnivorous?

Not carnivorous?




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[madokie]

2. Tell Morford :-)

[Blue_Tires]

3. Morford on point as usual

I was in Germany for the first time last summer, and could NOT belive how walkable/rideable it was for urbanites...The rail system is also very impressive...