short selling the Merican dream

Natural American Spirits is owned by Reynolds America a wing of RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company.
most cases of cancer related to cigarette smoking are most likely due to radiation poisoning caused by the burning of polonium-210 used in tabacco pesticides.
Honest Teas was purchased by the CocaCola Company in 2010.
sodas are a leading cause of type 2 diabetes.
To Xerox is to eat at McDonalds.
 meat isn't meat.
fish is fish but cow is beef.

Liberal Democracy is not the end of history.

the refrain of my generation:

why so serious?

"half childish trifles
half God in your heart"

before he'd finished shouting remember me,
he realized the moment had passed.
anyone listening could tell he'd realized this by his abrupt decrescendo by the end of the line
so that the "e" voicing was nearly swallowed whole
back into his throat

back into 

back into 

memory

memory

between the 

stupor

and the 

sunset

lies the 

television set

between the 

static

and the

cum stains

sits the

computer

beside

cum-stained computers

and beyond them

screens and mirrors and some kind of stasis 

some kind of strain of cruel coldness

and finally

paralysis

modernity, or post-modernity, or post-post, or wherever we are now, wherever we find ourselves, has a predilection to simultaneously emasculate while demanding hyper-masculinity from those who describe themselves, or are described by modernity, as men.

i was going to write that a similar process happens to those who describe themselves or are described as women, but our modern english doesn't really give us a feminine version of emasculate.  according to a blog called "english language and usage" emasculate isn't gendered and could be used to describe a woman.  is it though?

a reminder that even if liberal democracy is the end of history,

i wonder what it looks like