Poverty Kills 50,000 People Every Day

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NYC! Stand up for the people of Iran!

Massive National Mobilization in 50 US Cities.



STOP WAR ON IRAN
Saturday, August 2nd 2008 NOON
Rally and March, Times Square, 43rd St & Broadway
New York, NY USA

For more information, please visit:
www.stopiranwar.com

Saving Iceland

http://www. savingiceland. org/

Iceland is being sold to heavy multinational industry for no gain to Iceland, involving numerous risks. Heavy industry is queuing up for cheap energy by using old polluting methods and free from paying Kyoto tax in this environmental paradise. If the existing plans are to be realised, 25% of Iceland will be a dam affected area and this region will be among the most polluted of Europe by 2020! Protest is growing in and outside Iceland.

Yves Saint Laurent Dies

Fashion king Saint Laurent dies

"He was a libertarian, an anarchist and he threw bombs at the legs of society"
-Pierre Berge Saint Laurent's former partner




Yves Saint Laurent, considered by many as the greatest fashion designer of the 20th Century, has died in Paris at the age of 71.
Saint Laurent changed the face of the fashion industry when he became chief designer of the House of Dior at 21.
He designed clothes that reflected women's changing role in society: more confident personally, sexually and in the work-place.
He retired from haute couture in 2002 and had been ill for some time.
Saint Laurent died on Sunday evening in the French capital, the Pierre-Berge-Saint Laurent Foundation announced.
Pierre Berge, the designer's former business and personal partner, said he had died at his home after a long illness. He did not give details.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy paid tribute to Saint Laurent's "creative genius".

'I draw on woman'
"I found my style through women," Saint Laurent once said.
"That's where its strength and vitality comes from because I draw on the body of a woman."
He changed forever what women wear, introducing trouser suits, safari jackets and sweaters, BBC arts correspondent Razia Iqbal notes.
Saint Laurent was a great innovator, helping to revitalise haute couture while making ready-to-wear design popular.
The editor of British Vogue, Alexandra Shulman, said he had helped democratise fashion:
"Before that people had small salons for rich people. Saint Laurent brought it to the people. He was young and groovy. Pop stars were hanging out with him and younger generations related to him."


YSL 'understood what women really wanted'
"Yves Saint Laurent infused his label with his creative genius, elegant and refined personality... because he was convinced that beauty was a necessary luxury for all men and all women," he added. Speaking on French radio, Pierre Berge said his former partner had empowered women. "In this sense he was a libertarian, an anarchist and he threw bombs at the legs of society," he said. "That's how he transformed society and that's how he transformed women."

Famous French embroiderer Francois Lesage, who worked 40 years with the designer, said he was "devastated" by news of his death.
"I have never known a designer who would give so much thought to something when it was proposed to him," he told French TV. "It is a great grief for me."

The Art of the Cunt (Dear Women..)

A response to 'The Art of the Hunt (Dear Men...)

Five or six decades ago, the situation women were placed in from birth was terrible. In exchange for complete submission to their male ‘partners’ and the machismo rule of the patriarch, women were allowed small concessions such as doors being held open and subway seats being given up.

Women had been fighting for over sixty years for rights they never thought would come. Equality was a dream so far away that it was almost comical to mention it. Forty years after the largest feminist swing in politics, I’m seeing the blood and tears of a countless number of progressive women blasphemed.

Why did men hold doors for women? Why did men carry the heavier physical load? Why were men paid to be leaders while women were ‘taken care of’ and placed in a kitchen? Because men wanted women to believe they were weak. This bulletin entitled ‘The Art of the Hunt’ seems to imply that weakness and femininity have something in common. I think it’s sad that after all of the battles that have been fought in the name of equality and all of the media attention feminism has received over the years, women still think that men are ‘designed’ to take some form of initiative. They still don’t understand what equality is.

Being the CEO of a company or a candidate for the presidency doesn’t mean that you’re equal. Freedom is held within, and until you let yourself understand that kindness should be given and initiative should be taken according to circumstances, not gender, women will never be equal.

Before you call men pussies for wondering what a woman is thinking, maybe you should think about the life you’d have if men stopped caring about a woman’s right to be independent. Just because you want to be pampered and flattered on the grounds of anti-woman and anti-progress coziness doesn’t mean that the rest of the women in the world should have to suffer the consequences.

So to those of my friends that reposted this intellectually vacant bulletin: Shame on you. Shame on all of you for begging after all these years to be taken care of because of emotional differences created by hundreds of years of a patriarchy. Do you know who ‘designed’ men to be the providers? Men. The same way they designed you to be helpless.

You can be feminine and strong. You can be feminine and aggressive. You can be feminine and not be a fucking moron.

The Groundwork

This is the beginning. This is the start of a new political organization outside of established party boundaries to unify the North American left.

We are a group of students and young professionals that have banded together for the purpose of reaching our common goal of a socialist United States.

Uniquely, we believe that the liberation of the American people is impossible without focus on the responsibilities of each individual. Along with rights come responsibilities, and the majority of the international left offers too many excuses based on race, gender, sexuality and economic class, taking accountability away from those who actively seek to destroy the free world. While recognizing the added hardships that certain groups face, the North American Left wishes to build a society that will not discriminate against, nor will it neglect the wrong-doings of any person based on race, gender, sexuality, religion, age or national origin.

We wish to form relationships with leftist organizations and political parties across the United States as well as with our Canadian brothers and sisters, and by doing so we hope to create one unified movement for socialism in North America.

This organization is for those who recognize and refuse to tolerate the failures of the neoliberal Democratic party. This organization is for those who do not wish to stand behind established far-left parties who care more about the kitsch of working class movements than about the people in our country who desperately need a revolution. This organization is for every man, woman and youth that is tired of compromises. This organization is for the American people.

An in-depth view of our positions on a variety of issues will be posted soon.

http://www. myspace. com/northamericanleft

Saving the United States

I would like to remind the American people of something that seems to have been completely forgotten: the power of the human being. The power that we have to mobilize ourselves and others in order to throw out the system that has abused our people and raped our environment from the beginning of our country's creation.

Every four years, our countless number of left-wing organizations come together in order to back the Democratic candidate for the American presidency. Wait. Stop there.

Rather than discussing the obscene amounts of money, human labour and other resources that go into attempting to elect a Democrat into the White House, I'd like to point out the most basic and astoundingly obvious flaw of the American left. Election after election, we mobilize ourselves to support the enemy. We volunteer for, give money to and radically vocalize our support for a compromise, not a solution. Former Swedish politician Olof Palme used the term 'pest eller cholera' (the plague or cholera) to describe the situation that the free world is placed into with their national elections. Voting in the lesser of two evils. Choose which disease you would rather have spreading itself across our nation. Compromising our own political ideals and above all sacrificing our own human dignity and our system of democracy to make sure that the cholera wins over the plague. Why would we want either illness?

Why do we accept failure after failure from the Democratic party? Why do we think that we live in a two-party system when that couldn't be further from the truth? As Americans, we have the power to change not only the course of our country, but we have to power to change the course of the world. We have the power to put an end to environmental destruction. We have the power to put an end to world hunger. Politically, we live in the most powerful country in the world. Isn't it time to start stepping up to the plate and taking our social responsibility a bit more seriously?

The Green Party, The Socialist Party USA, The Democratic Socialists...these are just a few of many political organizations that make up a very, very large chunk of America's left. These parties have better solutions, policies of more humanitarian value and have an overall better understanding of humanity and working class issues than the Democrats could ever dream of having. So why don't we spend our time, money and energy into electing a third party to office? Why do we tell ourselves that it's impossible to elect a third party? Ralph Nader showed us that a small party can make a major wave by mobilizing only a tiny fraction of the US population. Would they have won with the support of organizations such as Moveon.org, the Working Families Party and the Democratic socialists of America? I believe they would have had a good shot.

Without our money and labour, it is impossible for the Democratic Party to succeed. Why, then, do we let them? Why do we give them our voices in exchange for anti-human, neo-liberal politics that are destined for failure?

It's a bit late to start working on the 2008 elections, as it will take an enormous nation-wide education campaign in order to secure the support of the more impoverished and uneducated areas of the United States. However, it's not too late (or too early) to start working on the 2012 elections, and I say we had better get started.

We're trapped in a two-party system because we want to be. We're enslaved because we've given our government and media institutions the chains to tie us up with from our own sheds. It's time to fight back and it's time that we show our country and the rest of the world that we haven't forgotten what it really means to live in a democratic society.

A Follow-up

I've been receiving letters from quite a few people in response to my defense of Guillermo Vargas Habacuc's exhibition, explaining why they feel that the artist should be held accountable for what he's done.

I definitely agree with the points that you're all making. It's really impossible to justify murder, but I think that you have to set the blame on all parties involved, not just one person. Habacuc took part in the death of an animal, but created an international awakening. The attendees that watched and did nothing took part in the death of an animal and then created more hate afterwards.

Both parties were wrong without question, but I think that there should be some sort of balance in blame before the guillotine rolls out. I don't agree with Habacuc's decision to let Natividad starve to death, and I think he should be criticized, even jailed, for letting it happen, but I think that everyone who attended the exhibition should be charged with neglect and assisting a murder in that case.

I appreciate Habacuc's intentions, which is more than I can say for those who decided to act only after the Natividad's death. Martin Luther King Jr said that the greatest evil of our time isn't the few that have destroyed, but the vast majority who sat idly by. This exhibition is a perfect example of that. How many people were at that gallery? How many people could have done everything in their power to help that dying creature? Is it right that only one man should be held accountable? Humanity likes to have someone to blame, and that's why we're lucky enough to have someone's name (Habacuc) attached to the dog's murder, because a group of nameless people can't be tracked down and petitioned. Justice is much more complex than that, unfortunately, and we have to think of the larger picture of injustice before we lynch one man and consider the problem done with.

A Prophet

In Defense of Guillermo Vargas Habacuc

I'd like to start by expressing my adamant support for the international animal rights movement. This response is by no means an attack on the dignity of any animal or the advocates of their liberation.

Guillermo Vargas Habacuc is an artist who recently hosted an installation in Costa Rica which involved an abandoned dog found on the streets. The dog, Natividad, was chained to a post in a room of the gallery and tragically starved to death, as she was given no food whatsoever.

There is currently a campaign to send a mass petition to Mr. Habacuc, and his work has created a frenzy of angry blogs, myspace bulletins and hate mail directed at the gallery that hosted the exhibition. They want the public to believe that he intentionally starved an animal to death with 'artistic value' as his only reasoning.

The blogs, myspace bulletins and anti-Habacuc propaganda are neglecting to mention the most important piece of information in their preachings. At the other side of the room, in near proximity of Natividad, 'Eres Lo Que Lees' (the title of the exhibition) was spelled out in dog food.

Sadly, the artist's suspicions were brutally proven to be correct. Habacuc wanted to show the indifference of the Costa Rican people and put the hypocrisies of popular movements in widespread view. He wanted to show the anger and media obsession that would follow. He wanted to prove that people would rather write a letter to their congressmen and stir up international anger rather than walking five steps to the exhibition's title and feeding the dog themselves.

It's true that this was an extremely unorthodox, albeit cruel, way of demonstrating a discontent with society, but nonetheless, Guillermo Vargas Habacuc was successful in proving a very, very valid point. People would rather fuel an idea than help a dying creature.

Why did no one pick up the food bits and carry them to Natividad? Why are the same people that visited the exhibition now lashing out at an artist that wasn't even present for the entirety of his own exhibition? Why do we always want someone else to take care of the world's problems instead of doing what we can to conbat cruelties on our own?

I suggest that the hatred aimed at the artist be redirected. It should be aimed at those Mr. Habacuc was aiming for. It should be aimed at the exhibition's indifferent and neglectful attendees, and it should be aimed at the immense hypocrisies within all humanitarian movements.

Nacht und Träume

Holy night, you sink down;
Dreams, too, drift down
Like your moonlight through space
Through the quiet hearts of men;
They listen with delight
Calling out when day awakens:
Return, holy night!
Fair dreams, return!

The language spoken and understood by a dreamer has no logical boundaries. Attempted from many angles and spoken in many dialects, the soul of a dreamer drifts in constant search for a state of betterment. Not necessarily, however, betterment in its definition as understood by one who doesn't dream.

The grass may not be greener on the other side, nor the water more blue at the other end of the ocean, but even as a dreamer realizes his faults when he reaches his long sought-after destination, the initial idea nurtured by an obsessive wanderlust embodies a fantastic journey which weighs heavier than the disappointment of his goal's reality.

The journey of a dream is everlasting; as night ends, new facets of old dreams are born.

Living in daylight is no different than living the beautiful silence of dreams carried by night. To be carried by the solace of darkness is to be cradled by an absense of gravity where any idea, no matter how abstract, is attainable.

Nacht und Träume. Night and Dreams.
Life is beautiful.

Why do I love Boris Yeltsin?

This is why.

Nicolas Sarkozy

I was just revisiting the tragic loss Ségolène Royal was blown to arrogant fascist and apparent alcoholic Nicolas Sarkozy when I stumbled upon this video.
It's from nearly a year ago, but I'd thought I'd share anyway. In this clip, Sarkozy had just met with Putin and is beginning his speech to the G8.

It's funny. It's scary. It's YouTube.

Declaration of Independence From the Gay Movement

Preliminary notes to be later compiled in the form of a formal declaration.

Heterosexuality, according to Webster's:
...of, relating to, or characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward the opposite sex
Homosexuality, according to Webster's:
...of, relating to, or characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward another of the same sex

All cultural references and lifestyle decisions are completely, one-hundred percent chosen by the individual.

1. I'm not interested in the semantics of sexuality, so don't expect me to respect your wishes to be called queer, androgynous, bear, leather, sub or anything else. You're gay and I don't ever add made-up words to my vocabulary to indulge a phony sense of togetherness.

2. I don't think it's exotic that you pluck your eyebrows, bleach your hair blonder than it is naturally or have a year membership to SATS. Your six-pack doesn't make your plastic, professionally altered face any more attractive. Puckering your lips and making your skin orange does not make you look like a model; it makes you look like a jackass.

3. You don't seem any straighter or more 'boyish' because you drink beer or play football, especially not when you're going to gay bars to listen to shitty eurotrash techno and hump other men. Masculinity is an emotional characteristic, not a to-do list.

4. I don't care that you work in finance. I don't give a damn about your money, and it doesn't make you more intelligent or successful than anyone in any other academic field.

5. Your collection of Dolce Gabana sunglasses doesn't make you a contributing member of the fashion industry.

6. A pretentious alternative/indie gay is just as retarded and narrowminded as a mainstream schlager-gay.

7. I have a dad and two uncles, I don't need more. Not as friends, not as a fuck buddy, not in a long or short term relationship.

8. I don't want you to piss on, shit on or spank me. I don't want to do any of those things to you, either.

9. I don't feel any more brotherhood with you because we're both gay than I would with someone that has the same hair colour as I. I assume that you're more than your sexuality, and if you aren't I'm not interested in knowing you anyway.

10. I'm extremely sexually liberal, so don't be surprised when you realize that I'm actually pretty easy.

Organized Religion and the Abolition of Free Speech

Growing up in the south, I've been subjected to the obstruction of free speech since I was a child. In a neo-con Christian school environment, one can't get away with the freedom of expression or speech if it's deemed 'dangerous' to Christian youth. Creationism is taught as a plausible theory in science courses, with equal weight placed on its validity as is placed on the validity of the process of evolution. Religions that lack the political weight of Christianity, Judaism or Islam are not allowed to be discussed in the public school system. Neo-paganism and other Earth-based religions are taught as dangerous, anti-American and above all, 'evil.' Refusal to stand and recite the American pledge of allegiance is grounds for detention, if not a full-on suspension. Advocates of Socialism and Communism are treated as traitors and their course writings are graded unfairly, if graded at all. Same-sex relationships lead to suspension or expulsion.

Internationally, the religious right is known to be an enemy of progress and political freedom and is under constant (and heavy) criticism, fronted by a variety of left-wing organizations. Knowing that the fight against the Christian establishment is in semi-good hands, I've decided to target another group that stands against freedom in every form that freedom can exist. I'm going to write about the international acceptance of Islamo-facist bullies.

I'd like to start with a disclaimer. As a devout socialist and advocate of equality in all its forms, I do not support divides that lead to the intolerance of any specific group of people that are free of the brainwashing of any pronounced political agenda. As a devout agnostic, I can promise you that my views on religion are completely objective, as I by no means favor any one organized religion over another. When ignorance manifests itself into a movement of facism, however, I completely support its full exposure and demand that a war be declared against its advancement.

I'm sure most of you remember the chaos that followed the Danish government's decision to publish cartoon images of the Islamic prophet Mohammed. Whether or not the international frenzy was based on 'how' the prophet was depicted is irrelevant, as freedom of speech should have no boundaries. The fact that has repeatedly been neglected to be addressed is that aggressively violent measures were taken by Islamic groups internationally as a result of the cartoons' release. Their release warranted death-threats, burnt embassies and the violent abuse of Danish and other Northern European civilians internationally.

The argument supporting the advancement of political corectness is an argument that supports an end to free speech. The argument that supports the willing submission to violence is an argument that puts the free world in danger. The argument that chooses the Christian right as the only enemy of social liberties is an argument that calls for the end of all unbiased critiques within the political arena. The combination of these arguments is what the European continent has chosen to be its mainspring.

The United States is constantly criticized for its refusal to allow protection of homosexuals into its laws. The American people is criticized of the same. The United States is criticized for its pro-war foreign policy and its lack of regard for international laws and the sanctity of human life. The American people are criticized for the same. The United States is criticized of its advocacy for a socially restrictive theocracy. The American people is assumed internationally to be a God fearing and overtly Christian people, and we take the blame for this too. Take 'the United States' out of those sentences and replace them with Iran. Take out 'the American people' and replace that with 'the Iranian people.' After those changes have been made, this paragraph is grounds for criticism by the international left as a statement of racial hatred and pro-Christian imperialism. Why?

Christians are against homosexuality and have laws that reflect it. So do Muslims. Christians believe in an 'old world' life philosophy that demands female submission to their male partners. To 'honor and OBEY.' Islamic countries have laws FAR more restrictive to the rights and freedoms of women than those of Christian states. Christianity has (historically) been the forerunner of religious imperialism and has fought many a war to carry its political ideals from border to border. Islamo-facists have declared a violent war against the infidels (non-Muslims). Can someone please explain the difference?

Racism and ethnocentrism are appauling forces. The oppression of the people of Islamic countries by the Western world is unaccaptable. Discriminating against someone because of his or her religion or national background is ignorance at its purest. This writing is meant to point out that its not ok when it comes from either side of the pond. Equality is equality and no one should be given special protection from criticism when their platform becomes a platform of violence and racial hatred, and the freedom of the press should NEVER be hindered. Ever.

It's against the principles of Islam to depict the prophet in an animated form. European leftists think this means that by refusing to publish them, we're respecting the religious values of European Muslims. Christians are vehemently against the establishment of marriage rights for homosexuals. Should we silence the advocates of marriage equality so that we can better respect the religious values of Christianity? Judaism teaches that it is against the will of God to eat hooved creatures. Is it offensive, then, to sell pork in European grocery stores? Where is the boundary and who is it that should decide how wide it stretches? As I stated before, equality is equality. Freedom of religion protects the rights of a country's people to worship what, who, where or how they wish. I must have been asleep when religious freedom accepted turning a blind eye to the vulgar and aggressively violent actions of extremists in the name of political corectness.

In the world of a non-believer, religion is ridiculous. For a non-believer, worshipping Allah or Jehovah is like waiting for Santa Claus to come down the chimney with a bag full of goodies on Christmas Eve. The world of a non-believer is the world of the state. Unbiased and unaffected in regards to religion. That's why we on the left believe in a separation of church and state; so that we can ensure that our government remains an unbiased non-believer.

Publishing cartoons is not damaging the rights of Muslims to worship as they wish. Allowing gay marriage is not damaging the rights of Christians to live as they wish. Publishing cartoons isn't murdering, starving or impoverishing any people of the world, and those who are swayed by their publicity have the right to be so. That's freedom. That's equality. That's what we, the members of the left, fight for every day.

Don't let the nature of Socialism's tolerance blind you to the intolerance of violent members of groups that we wish to protect. Don't let religion have any input in our laws. Don't support partial attacks on conservative theocracy by only attacking the state of Israel and Christian imperialism and stop keeping Islam free of criticism, because by doing so the left is not only destroying our international credibility, but it's destroying the very fabric of our political structure as well.

Muslim, Christian, Jewish, American, German, English; it doesn't matter. Regardless of who or where it's coming from, violence in the name of religion is wrong. Open your eyes, your ears and most importantly, your minds. Protecting the values of humanity are much, much more important than protecting the security of minority votes to the left.

Here's to equality!

God is dead and so is Easter.

A few years ago, I met the most beautiful person I've ever met. He changed my life and I loved him more than I probably ever will anyone else. The night we met, he called me when I was driving home from work (Virgin Records at that time) and asked me if I wanted to join him and his roommate at their Easter party when Easter rolled around...The invitation was sweet, but even sweeter was the fact that Easter was more than a month away. Now every Easter I think about that. I think about the innocence of our beginning, the beauty of our peak and more depressingly, I think about our bitter end. I think about how life-changing our relationship was, even though we never actually knew eachother. Most of all I think of how terribly sad it is that we can't even be in the same room together anymore after what was without question the most meaningful and thought provoking period in my life.

It's hard to believe that Easter is here again when I'm looking at a mini snow storm through my window. That's all Easter ever is for me now, really; a snowy blur. Much like that relationship, the snow is beautiful to look at from inside, where I'm safe and warm, but very, very dangerous if I step too close into its chaos without the proper equipment. Vulnerability is a bitch.

It started out with Communication. It evolved into Couldn't Care Less. Now the Cardigans are leaving the stage and giving the floor to a melancholy (yet hopeful) Nina Simone.
This one's for you, Jacob. For what we had and what we lost.

Happy Anniversary!

It's been five years today since we illegally invaded Iraq.

Can I be real?

Nokia and Cambridge Nanotech have just replaced the dog with technology as man's best friend.

Goodbye, Stockholm

I'd like to think of my first proper entry as a gateway to my new life. But what's the fun of ending things if they're not welcomed with a Dear John? Many of you have already read this letter, but I thought I'd post it anyway for sentimental reasons.

Dear Stockholm,

My relationship with your city has been a lot like my first serious romantic relationship. The only difference is that I've been on the opposite side this time. I've longed after an ideal and pre-arranged a marriage for myself with an image of something that doesn't exist. A symbol for something I lacked in my childhood that doesn't bear as much weight as it used to. Now that I've grown closer to this symbol, I've realized that what's behind its face is much less desireable than I had once imagined.

I do love Sweden. Sweden's national ideals, political climate and welcoming people (or at least the idea of what they once stood for) have driven me for as long as I can remember. The Swedish Model has paved the path for the rest of the free world to follow, and for that Sweden should be proud. Unfortunately, Swedish youth takes 99.9% of what their country has to offer for granted. Pissing on socialist ideals for capitalist lies and a false sense of economic security, building their egos on what their parents and grandparents fought for only to rip it apart, and shunning anyone who thinks, walks, talks or dresses differently, all while boasting to be the most progressive country in the world.

Pardon my Americanism (or don't), but freedom is completely held within the individual. I'm a strong believer in social goals and togetherness, but a society is built on individual human beings. The faults of one are the faults of all, and the neglegence of one to act against a brainwashed national mentality is the downfall of a system and of a free people. Consumerism has eaten Stockholm alive, and each year it pumps out more and more 15 year old aspiring fashion stylists. When I was 15 I didn't know what a stylist was. This isn't progress, it's consumerist status-seeking at its absolute worst.

Stop pointing fingers, Sweden, and realize that the capitalist beast destroying Social Welfare isn't solely embodied in the United States. You voted the monster into power yourselves. Moderaterna. For what? To be more like the United States? Out of boredom? To join the rest of 'EU'rope? In hopes that you'll get rid of Stockholm's small town mentality? Change within oneself is usually the most solid change one can undergo, you know. Political events can change how far your borders open, but the only one in control of how open your mind is is you, you arrogant, egotistical, closed-minded, consumerist monster.

Before I fall out of love with Scandinavia because of the ignorance and spoiled nouveaux-riches attitudes of Sweden's tomorrow, I've made the decision to leave my job at Rodebjer to pursue new interests at home. As difficult as it is to leave the best company I've ever worked for, I'll be moving back to New York at the end of May this year.

I love you, Sweden. It's not you, it's not me; it's them.

Yours,

James Gillespie

An Introduction For the Masses

The title of this specific entry may imply a high number of readers for this blog, but I can assure you that this is hardly the case, as I created it less than twenty minutes ago.  

The original title of this blog was to be 'Notes on Madness.' Realizing that my opinions and interests can be quite fringe at times, I realized that 'Madness on Notes' was more appropriate. The writings you will find here are not meant to be solid political statements to be fact checked and taken as gold, but rather a collection of my humble critiques that follow my uncanny (if I may be so bold as to describe them as so) observational skills. 

The world is a funny place. Less funny than it is bizarre, I suppose, but funny nonetheless. I decided to start documenting my observations on the topic of 'the world' via expressions of my ideas and ideals in a more formal setting, hence the creation of this blog. You are more than welcome to expect intellectually vacant banter from the mind of a young person lacking the credentials for a formal commentary, because in all probability you'll be getting much less than that. It's easiest to box my opinions into the larger realm of a vast left-wing conspiracy, but I beg of you to look deeper than that if you plan on taking anything noteworthy from what I have to say.

I end this introductory statement with the simple wish that this won't be the last you'll read of me. Whether or not we stand on the same side of cultural or political issues, I can be sure to (at the very least) make you angry, and that in itself is noteworthy.