Jon Stewart skewers Fox… again.

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The consequences of failure.  Utter failure:

According to Peter Clarke, a Navy shipmate, Massa was notorious for making unwanted advances toward subordinates. He tells the story of his friend Stuart Borsch, with whom Massa shared a hotel room while on leave during the first Gulf War. “Stuart’s at the edge of the bed,” Clarke says Borsch told him at the time, “and [Massa] starts massaging him. Massa said, ‘You’ll have to get one of my special massages.’ He called them ‘Massa Massages.’” Ron Moss, a Navy shipmate and Borsch’s roommate, confirmed that Borsch told him this story at the time.From Josh Green:

Borsch, now a history professor at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts, didn’t addresss that specific incident, but did confirm to me in an email that he was groped by Massa: “In 1990, aboard the U.S.S. Jouett, I was awakened when a senior officer, Lt. Commander Massa, seemed to be groping me. (I was a lieutenant at the time.) I believe he may have been drinking. I shouted at him and he left. I mentioned the incident to several other officers. I did not officially report it.”

Whatever his pathologies are, it’s a safe bet that Massa has totally fracked himself.

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Sometimes I think the state of Georgia exists in a plastic bubble, aimlessly drifting in an airless vacuum.  This is from the dumb things politicians spend their time on file:

Tuesday, the House State Planning & Community Affairs Committee reported out a resolution that says the General Assembly nor the people of Georgia “consider themselves bound to comply with the orders of any presidentially appointed czar.”

House Resolution 1146 is sponsored by two candidates for Congress; state Representatives Clay Cox and Bobby Reese.

Where the hell do I live?

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When I was a kid, I remember going to see Silver Bullet with my family in 1985.  I was one of those kids who’d see any type of horror flick I could– even though most of them back in the mid-80’s were R- rated– and I couldn’t exactly get into them by myself.  For those who don’t know, Silver Bullet was a campy horror movie based upon a Stephen King book of the same name.  It was about a young boy in a wheelchair, his haggardly drunken uncle, and a werewolf.  The boy in the wheelchair was played by Corey Haim.  Corey Haim, the wunderkind actor, who seemed to perfectly encapsulate teen heartthrob mania more than any young actor in quite some time.

Looking back, the movie itself was your typical bland supernatural tedium.  But the beating heart was its interplay between Haim’s character and his uncle, played by Gary Bussey.  Haim showed the sardonic wit and undeniable charm that he was quickly becoming known for in his role.  Despite the dull script, Haim breathed life into his physically disabled character Marty.  In all of his films, Haim made the most of his sly comedic gifts, using a combination of sarcasm and school boy charm.  It seemed to work.  His fans loved him, and so did Hollywood.

Haim went on to make a few other commercially successful films (although not critically successful) such as The Lost Boys in 1987, and License To Drive in 1988 (both favorites of mine).

Corey Haim succumbed to his demons last night at the age of 38.  His problems with drug abuse have been well documented, but I remember a time when he rode the wave of his transcendence like few others his age ever had.  I hope that others remember that as well.  Rest in peace.

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I read a great piece on the boy wonder of  shady Georgia politics, Ralph Reed yesterday.  Reed apparently had decided to run for the open congressional seat vacated by Republican John Lindner.  We can now all take solace in the fact that lil’ Reed has decided not to run:

Former Christian Coalition architect Ralph Reed, who is known to be considering a possible bid in Georgia’s open 7th district, announced Tuesday that he’d make his future plans known on Wednesday. But multiple Georgia GOP insiders said Tuesday afternoon that they believe the former lieutenant governor candidate will simply be announcing that he will pass on the Congressional contest.

According to one source, Reed, a well-known conservative voice who lives in the 7th district, has not reached out to key supporters in Georgia about running for Congress. Others pointed out that his trip to New York on Monday for a Fox New appearance isn’t the move of a would-be candidate getting his team together ahead of a Congressional campaign announcement.

Many are the sins of Mr. Reed.  Most of them are too numerous to recount.  But let’s try.  Here, here, and here.

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My beautiful home state.  Bluff Head, North Guilford, Connecticut .

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“For the first time in recorded history, today’s younger generation will live shorter lives than their parents. Yet parents, and this is, I believe, the most alarming statistic that we found, do not recognize the problem.”

There are many contributing factors to our poor eating habits– not the least of which is accessibility and affordability of healthy food.   The price of fruits and vegetables has skyrocketed in the last ten years, while the pay of most Americans has leveled out significantly.  This is a serious problem, one that I am glad this administration is taking on.

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For those who haven’t seen the seminal film The Birth of a Nation, it remains to this day revered by some as a significant cinematic achievement– because of its usage of technical innovation– the usage of lighting, editing and close-ups was ahead of its time.  It’s also despised for its graphically stereotypical portrayals of Black people, as everything from sex-crazed beasts, to mammies, sambos and toms.  

Quite frankly, I cannot quite grasp the technical achievements of the film, due to the overwhelming urge I get to wretch every time I see one of Griffith’s black characters cross the screen.  But in unearthing this American “classic” over the weekend, I noticed one particular black character– whose motivation and behavior in the film conjured a host of metaphorical imagery for me relating to today’s political culture:  His name was Silas Lynch.

In Griffith’s tale, Silas Lynch is the dastardly villain– the man who almost single-handedly destroys the way of life that white people enjoyed– before the civil war ripped the union asunder.  Lynch is given all of the trappings of a maniacal despot:  He thirsts for power, indulges heavily in alcohol consumption, is wracked with seething rage and animalistic blood-lust, and suffers from an uncontrollable, deviant sexual appetite.  In the film, the Lynch character appears in its second half–after President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination– to seemingly symbolize a clear, calculated distinction between good and evil. 

Lynch, as a black man, represents everything that is destructive and wrong about post Civil War America. He is free to act upon his desires– and he desires power, the subjugation of the white race, voting opportunities for blacks, and the legalization of interracial relations.  In short, he aspires to be equal– which is anathema to the America Griffith has created. There is one more fascinating aspect to Silas Lynch though.  One that is the impetus for this story:  Silas Lynch was biracial.

It was a relatively innocuous observation on my part.  Until I actually thought about it.  It began five days ago with the release of the Republican National Committee’s fundraising document.  The RNC’s game plan– using fear to generate money to fight our country’s precipitous slide into socialism– was not shocking in and of itself.  The images used to project this fear were.  Barack Obama, the nation’s first black commander-in-chief, is of mixed parentage.  The son of a white mother and a black (Kenyan) father– President Obama has reveled proudly in his biracial heritage– extolling it in books and countless speeches. But in this flyer, you have Barack Obama– the black President of the United States– portrayed as a ghoulish spook in white face. 

A black man in white face. This was the same image we’ve all seen in the last year and half–produced by crazies mostly out of the mainstream.  But this time it’s different. This time, this image was circulated by the Republican National Committee– the legitimate fundraising and organizing arm of the national party.  The party hell-bent on turning Barack Obama into Silas Lynch.

In the last year and a half, I’ve watched as opponents of the president have painted him as everything from a Nazi, to a Marxist, to a Socialist, to an illegitimate citizen of Kenya who stole the election, to a rabid fomenter of anarchy– using the Constitution as toilet paper in his quest to usurp power.  The strategy of fear.  This is the re-invention of Silas Lynch in modern times. President Obama has become the evil tragic mulatto, out to destroy the country and the white race.

In Birth of a Nation, Griffith portrays the biracial Lynch as a divider, not a uniter.  His bronze skin is literally and figuratively symbolic of black -white relations, and the disunity it brings.  It is Lynch’s very existence that is tainted and foul–he is not just black, he is the product of a union between black and white– and this was considered corrupt and against God.  The mulatto was the chaos bringer, thought to be power-hungry and salaciously conniving and evil.  Silas Lynch has morphed into Barack Obama.

Fear is a powerful deterrent to change. Fear is projecting Barack Obama as the divider, whose ideals and methods are contrary to what a unified nation should be.  This goes to the heart of republican dissent today.  In essence, the incessant fear-mongering and that subsequent RNC document has accomplished its goal.  The injection of fear has successfully immobilized rational debate, and paralyzed leadership in Washington.  D.W. Griffith’s prophetic racist vision has provided the backdrop for this new strain of political theater.

Perhaps this is some new, dangerously upgraded version of the Southern Strategy.  Whatever the motivations of those engaged in this reckless approach, it proves that the color of fear remains.  And Silas Lynch lives on in American politics, reborn in the 44th President.

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