"Freedom cannot be reduced to song because of a select group of fools in the United States."

Cry To Waris Shah During Partition (1947)

Today, I ask of you this, Waris Shah.

That you answer from the grave.

And open the next chapter to the book of love.

In times gone by, a daughter of Punjab wept.

You wrote endless songs of lamentations for her.

Listen! Today, millions of daughters

Are crying out to you, Waris Shah.

Listen! Rise up, you sympathizer of suffrages!

Rise up and look at your Punjab!

This day, grazing fields are replete with the deceased.

And the River Chenab is brimming with blood.

Someone must have infected the five rivers,

And that contaminated water irrigates the lands.

Each and every pore of that fertile land ejects enmity.

Sky has turned bloodstain crimson

And is erupting acrimoniously.

A toxic wind runs through every forest.

That wind’s toxicity transforming

Every bamboo flute into a hooded serpent.

Upon first biting the snake charmer,

All mantras afterwards lost their charm.

What of the second bite?

As people drank the venomous water,

They evolved into snakes.

Then, sting after sting,

The limbs of Punjab turned blue with venom.

Songs from the streets split.

Dresses were unraveled as

Girls left their friends’ play gatherings.

Humming of the spinning wheel stopped.

Nuptial beds became castaway boats.

The swing of innocence came crashing down

When the pipal tree branch broke.

Listen! The place where the flute

Played melodies of love

Has lost its song:

The dashing brothers of Ranja

Having lost the touch

Of how to play the flute.

Instead, blood rained on the earth

And graves oozed blood.

The spirits of dead princesses

Wailed in the graveyard.

Listen! Today, all men became

Evil and villainous,

Robbers of beauty and love.

Today,

Where must we search for another Waris Shah?

Today, I ask of you this, Waris Shah.

That you answer from the grave.

Amrita Pritam (31 August 1919 – 31 October 2005)

Translated from the Punjabi by M.S. Alverston, 08/18/11.

“Tomato Ketchup: The Condiment”

In our region of the world,

A woman who writes poetry

Is considered strange.

Every man presumes that he is the person

Being addressed in her poetry.

And since that is not true,

He becomes hostile towards her.

Sarah Shugfta, in this sense, made less enemies,

Because she did not believe in giving explanations:

Before she could become the designated wife of a writer,

She had become the sister-in-law of all mankind!

Even the worthless and lowest of men claimed that

She had slept with them.

Morning until evening, jobless male scribes buzzed

About Sarah Shugfta.

Even men who had jobs

Would leave their stinking files

And worn out wives

To come to Sarah Shugfta.

Leaving behind electricity bills,

Children’s school fees,

And wives’ medicines,

For these were the problems,

Only concerns for the trifling bipedal.

All day, all evening, and through the late night,

Heated discussions would take place

On literature and philosophy,

And when hunger struck,

With joint money contributions,

Chickpea curry and naan were gotten

From the corner vendor.

Great intellectuals then,

Requesting her for tea,

Began to praise Sarah Shugfta:

“Wow! You are our Amrita Pritam!”

The naïve girl would be very pleased,

Thinking the praises as the truth.

Perhaps there was some reasoning behind

The men’s praises: Those who were

Responsible for supporting her

Always served Sarah Shugfta

Kafka’s coffee and Neruda’s biscuits.

Due to these saliva-soaked compliments,

She was, at least, able to secure a meal.

But for how long?

One day

When

She was able to free herself

From the wolves’ clutches,

Sarah Shugfta left the jungle and died.

As long as she had lived,

Appreciators of art kept gnawing her.

In their crony congregation,

She is still savored,

The only difference being

That after her death, they can no longer

Take bites of her.

Now she has the status of tomato ketchup!

Condiment for spicy desires.

Parveen Shakir (24 November 1952 - 26 December 1994)

Translated from the Urdu by M.S. Alverston, 02/26/11.

"Non nobis domine..."

(M)an: Dude! There is a coordinated effort by the conservatives in the United States to systematically ruin the left and Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband and daughter are doing absolutely nothing constructive for Rodham Clinton’s former employer President Obama, only making it more and more apparent that they are conservatives as well.

(D)ude: Man! The Pew Research Center is an ancillary of the Pew Charitable Trusts, has  over five billion dollars in assets and is considered an independent NGO, although its motivations for becoming a charitable organization rests in its newfound freedoms to collect funds as it wishes and without restrictions, and to invest five percent of those funds into lobbying efforts in the public sector.   

M: Dude! The Pew Research Center is named after the primary founder of Sun Company Incorporated, which became the Sun Oil Company, which became Sunoco Incorporated, and is still considered the biggest gasoline distributor in the United States with headquarters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. You know the practice of going to a gas pump and being able to select an octane grade like super unleaded? Well, Sunoco Incorporated invented the concept and the machines in 1956, updating to the most current octane grade we have thus far, which originally comprised of eight octane grades and now has been reduced down to a three-octane grade system in use today.

D: Man! The Washington Post and Politico have prematurely declared the Republican Tea GOP as having won the 2014 midterms and the Obama Administration as being irrelevant after only one and a half years into the President’s second term. Whilst the Republican Tea GOP politicians are in Las Vegas, Nevada trying to win top dollar endorsements from billionaire Sheldon Adelson. Through the process of carrying about like strumpets putting on a ribald showcase for their obscenely rich hustler, the Republican Tea GOP is confident that the American Press and Media outlets will conform accordingly.    

M: Dude! Regarding American Press and Media outlets, the Chairwoman and CEO of PepsiCo, the Asian Indian-American Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi, age 58, needs to come under fire for her company’s involvement with American television, specifically for cosponsoring The Colbert Report on Comedy Central starring Stephen Colbert since its debut in 2005. Now keep in mind, Nooyi began her career at PepsiCo in 1994 as a strategist and within eight years was named the chief financial officer, and then five years after that chief executive officer due to an electrifying brilliance and equally incredible work ethic.            

D: Man! Has Nooyi ignited any campaigns to improving the load shedding practices around the globe through automated demand response systems in areas that do not have the convenience of surplus power as, for example, Mumbai, India because of its stature as an international financial hub?

M: Dude! What about US? Due to the brutal realities of global warming, a lot of the United States suffered incomprehensible erratic and cold weather patterns that placed really high demand for power and the burdensome challenges of rolling blackouts, the last resort measure where electric utility companies purposefully shutdown delivery of electricity in the attempt to prevent total blackouts.    

D: Man! What’s in store for the world this summer? Los Angeles, California residents reported a minor earthquake last night and yet another today, but what about sleepless nights due to the fatigable heat of the season? Tennessee’s seventh district’s Republican Representative Marsha Blackburn and her Tea GOP cronies insist that the costs outweigh the benefits when assessing the need for governmental intervention regarding climate change and its effect on people across the United States and around the globe. Representative Marsha Blackburn came on Meet the Press with David Gregory February 16, 2014, a Sunday, to insist that “what we have to do is look at the information that we get from climate scientists. As you said, there is not agreement around the fact of exactly what is causing this. Even the president’s own Science and Technology Office head Mister Holdren says no one single weather event is due specifically to climate change. So it drives the policy to look at cost/benefit analysis, what we do about it, and the impact that U.S. policy would have in a global environment.”     

M: Dude! Representative Marsha Blackburn is working hard for animal rights by taking on the role of being the mouthpiece for the Tennessee Walking Horse Industry. And in order to display bipartisanship, Representative Blackburn is pushing for the construction of a Museum on Women, yet is dead set against the Affordable Care Act and women’s autonomy, opting to exercise the oppressive prerogatives of the Republican Tea GOP males. And what about the cost of human lives lost because of severe weather conditions and severer socioeconomic setbacks?

D: Man! All the right-wingers fraternizing with Sheldon Adelson this weekend in Las Vegas want to repeat after Jon Stewart’s Busboy Productions logo’s sound bite, “Oops. Sorry.” However, the overwhelmingly popularly reelected President of the United States Barack Obama is actually trying to empower the American electorate that trusted him with a second term. But like the uplifting and motivational Moral Monday and Truthful Tuesday Movements where the real faces of a diversely rich America are making tremendous strides despite limited or no national media coverage—rallying against, for example, the South Carolina Republican Party’s proposed legislation—rejecting Medicaid expansion and the Affordable Care Act Navigators assisting South Carolinians through the health insurance marketplace—known informally as the “nullify Obamacare” bill, which died on the floor of the South Carolina Senate on March 19, 2014, a Wednesday.

M: Dude! Citizens United has only caused massive campaign finance abuse/fraud that has compromised the foundation of our democracy as well.   

D: Man! The foundation of American democracy is shifting and cracking because of the corporate fracking of the American conscience through the deliberate lack of public awareness about what’s happening to ordinary lives, especially everyday women and their children, in extraordinarily filthy rich circumstances for the top two percent of society.  

M: Dude! Big business, like PepsiCo, needs governmental regulations because of its total oversight and inherent disregard for the will of the people, including its own 278,000 employees. Despite revenues exceeding forty-three billion dollars annually, PepsiCo is anticipating cutting 8,700 jobs—or three percent of its workforce globally in order to save itself $1.5 billion dollars by the conclusion of fiscal year 2014.

D: Man! CEO Indra Nooyi has utilized innovative ways of meeting the demands of environmentalists in India and the United States because of the water shortages due to drought and water conservationists’ speaking up against PepsiCo are attracting media attention.

M: Dude! Apparently, it takes five billion liters of water in order to run a beverage facility as huge as PepsiCo. But in 2009, PepsiCo replenished six billion liters of water in India. And in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2009 as well, PepsiCo began cleaning its new bottles for Gatorade with a  purified air  mechanism. In England, the company has invented a way to utilize the natural moisture in potatoes in order to create its potato chips without the need for an external water source.

D: Man! Talking about the filthy and rich, did you hear about Tina Fey’s not wanting to address the issue of paying her workers’ compensation insurance since November 2012?  

M: Dude! I thought the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board had rejected her final appeal and that she has to pay $79,000 in fines.

D: Man! Tina Fey is responsible for having set the deprecatory tone of best selling memoirs highlighting the too intimate details of a woman’s strife with her mother and others, with her 2011 autobiography Bossypants in which I did not find anything worth amusing over. Actually, the entire book made me cringe as if  Tina Fey was scratching her fingernails across a chalkboard. I got the sense that Fey had signed a book deal with her publisher well in advance but never got around to completing the nonfiction disgrace until the very last minute.    

M: Dude! You should never spend the advance you receive from your publisher before you even begin to write whatever it is you agreed to writing. That is the root of all ignominy.

D: Man! I’ll tell you what deserves public contempt. My aunt has worked for a department store chain for eight years and has brought in ten million dollars in profit for this popular chain. What has my aunt been given in compensation for standing up for eight to twelve hours on her feet working the clothes racks and keeping customers satisfied? Arthritis and the constant need for steroid injections to ease the torturous pain in her lower body that has compromised her quality of life outside of work.     

M: Dude! Your aunt never gets a chance to sit down? What about lunch and periodic breaks?

D: Man! Barely! The lunch breaks last just 15 to 20 minutes, and trips to the bathroom are scarce, and the department managers and the store manager are constantly keeping an eye out for the slightest lackadaisicalness. It is brutal!

M: Dude! Yes! It sounds awful!

D: Man! Life is drastically compromised for employees at home. My aunt used to do all the housework and cooking for entire parties of relatives on her time off from work, but now her lower body has collapsed from constantly standing up for eight to twelve hours on the job. The brief lunch break is the only time allotted for workers to gather the strength to go on for the rest of their shifts.

M: Dude! Non nobis domine non nobis sed nomini tuo da glorium…

D: Man! Not unto us O Lord, not to us but to your name give glory…

M: Dude! The prurient Republican Tea GOP is spreading rumors about MSNBC being in third place, behind Faux News and CNN. But hasn’t the National American Press heard about the fable of the two students?

D: Man! Yeah, there are just two students in the class, and the one who is placed in second place fails to relay that slight fact to his or her mother, declaring himself an academic, specifically the Salutatorian of his entire class.

M: Dude! The truth about shows tanking is this: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are going to the Faux News Channel, both getting premium spots between Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly.

D: Man! The politically obscure Jon Stewart’s chance at receiving a Peabody Award for a third time 

is expanding exponentially, as well as for the conservative impolite turned bigot Stephen Colbert.

M: Dude! The two will finally be in like company, right between Hannity and O’Reilly.

D: Man! Did you note Ari Melber’s take on Glenn Beck’s review of the director Darren Aronofsky’s Noah starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly?

M: Dude! No?

D: Man! According to Ari Melber, sitting in for Chris Hayes on Thursday’s All In, “He’s [meaning Glenn Beck] less obnoxious on politics.”    

M: Dude! Yeah! Glenn Beck apparently found the Biblical interpretations in this weekend’s number one blockbuster, “pro-animal and strongly anti-human”… even after being invited to a personal screening of the film himself earlier by Darren Aronofsky. Isn’t Glenn Beck fraternizing with Sheldon Adelson as well this weekend?

Explain away! The floor is all yours!

(D)ude: Man! Before people and the press pounce upon the President of the United States’ address in Brussels, Belgium, I think Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 film Full Metal Jacket and the way I watched the film myself this past Christmas puts into an honest perspective a possible answer to the question of why President Obama addressed the Iraq War as he did.

(M)an: Dude! Explain away! The floor is all yours, Dr. Strangelove!

D: Man! You know about Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb? Did you know that Kubrick’s own fear of a possible nuclear attack on New York in his mid-thirties drove him to want to do a film about the topic?  

M: Dude! Four months from today is Kubrick’s birthday—which I am absolutely certain about. I would like to know just how you would tie together that which you have promised. And why haven’t I been recommended Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket yet? Christmas was a day and three months ago!

D: Man! Well, Stanley Kubrick’s extensive research for the Dr. Strangelove led him to decide that the material would be lampooned if he were to approach it seriously, so he decided to construct a dark comedy, a nightmare comedy as he put it, which resulted in reviews from both ends of the spectrum, chastisement from the New York Times and hoorahs from the Nation and Life.

M: Dude! You haven’t answered either question, although your utilization of Wikipedia for the background is, I think, parallel to not just that of Kubrick’s thorough literature review for that particular film but all his films. I believe he wrote the screenplays for all his movies, with the exception of one or two of his initial cinematic endeavors.

D: Man! Thank you? Which, by the way, makes me wonder why Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, Sheryl Sandberg, Anna Maria Chavez, and Arianna Huffington choose actively to shun the issue of the war on women’s autonomy regarding contraceptives in the United States? They trumpet around for the Clinton Global Initiative, advocate for a public service campaign focused on “Ban [the word] Bossy” from our cultural conscience and lexicon towards girls who are assertive, and then write self-deprecatory testimonials that end up devitalizing the awesome breadth and depth of the women’s rights movement not just domestically, but internationally.    

M: Dude! Domestically, I would like to ask each of the women you just listed if they have ever utilized contraceptives themselves and specifically in what circumstances, and with whom exactly. I would like to ask the male justices of the United States Supreme Court, Scalia in particular, whether they donned chastity belts themselves with regards to their sexual lifestyles. Actually, I would like to know whether any of the men on the Supreme Court have sexual lifestyles, except for Clarence Thomas, who, I believe, like Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, enforced the morning after pill routine on 

many women throughout his bachelorhood.    

D: Man! I went to a Hobby Lobby last year and noticed an uncomfortable tension and customer monitoring by the employees towards minorities and those who were visibly dressed according to the religious practices of their particular non-Christian faith. As a White male, I felt obligated to involve a Muslim woman and her toddler child in a chatty conversation while the cashier kept marking up the twenty-dollar bills over and over that the mother had handed to her. Ironically, the cashier was from another  region of the world as well and had an accent too, I think she was a Christian convert because her mannerism hinted some resentment at the Muslim mother and child for having the economic status to practice a faith through choice. But in my conversation with the mother with toddler, I felt a similar vibe of disenfranchisement from the woman towards her husband, who was a physician and had provided for her the amenities that the Christian convert cashier could only dream about accruing because of the pay inequities and everyday jolts she’s facing because of the Republican Tea GOP’s pandering to the will of businesses, plundering local, state, and federal government, and plunging deregulatory policies.  

M: Dude! Deregulatory policies? Contraception has become a privilege! Clearly, the Republican Tea GOP, the United States Supreme Court, and the women in business who choose to never look back once they reach the epsilons of affluence, embrace exclusivity, excess, and the egregious mindset that people in poverty should mobilize through yesterday’s private almsgiving practices that are demoralizing, implicit upon the individual surrendering his or her hope and worth for someone else’s edicts! We need government assistance! It is the heart of a democracy, for every citizen to have a way and means of economic mobility without having to compromise autonomy and forfeit imagination.   

D: Man! President Obama’s address in Brussels, Belgium reminded me of coming across Full Metal Jacket while channel surfing. Matthew Modine watches as his squad is goofing around and falling in and out of hate with each other moment to moment. Modine’s character is capturing the personalities and opinions, about the Vietnam War, of his Marine comrades, on videotape at their Hue base, right before going into combat.        

M: Dude! And then?

D: Man! There is a scene of combat where the squad heartbreakingly diminishes.

M: Dude! What do you mean?

D: Man! You see, the squad is alone in a disseminated war zone where there are booby traps and an awaiting sniper in their midst who keeps wounding and killing Modine’s brothers in arms, one by one. It is here that Stanley Kubrick’s genius made me mourn every one of the guys, who die successively and in slow motion before the camera resumes the fast action needed to resonate in the audience an actual feeling of the fear of war and the loyalty that exists amongst compatriots, a loyalty that runs so deep that Modine’s squad members risk booby traps in order to recover the bodies of their fallen comrades.    

M: Dude! Do all the men in Modine’s squad die?

D: Man! No, the sniper turns out to be a female Vietnamese teenager who is surrounded by the surviving Marines at the end of her life in a bombed building and pleading to be shot and relieved of the pain of the wounds that have left her vulnerable. The thing that really got to me was that the United States Marines comply with her final wishes rather cantankerously, Modine finally agrees to bring the teenage girl’s suffering to an end,  if I remember correctly.

M: Dude! Is that how the movie ends?

D: Man! No. The final scene is the United States Marines marching onward in the night through the blazing fires and remains of an annihilated city at the Battle of Hue. The men are singing the Mickey Mouse March, ironically. 

M: Dude! I get it! President Obama is Commander-in-chief and not wanting to address his troops in a way to malign their commitment to their country, the United States of America. To undermine the honor of our soldiers and veterans is sacrilege.

D: Man! The female teenage sniper’s anguish was palpable! You actually mourn for the girl and Vietnam too! 

Neoconservative Specks and Planks, or Congressional Republicans 2014

(M)an: Dude! Attorney General Greg Abbott is running as the Republican candidate for Texas Governor, but always opts out of addressing his audiences on key issues, relying on surrogates instead to speak on his behalf.  

(D)ude: Man! That’s even more reason to vote for Wendy Davis for the Texas Governorship. The American national media has gone after her unkindly for addressing Gregg Abbott’s endorser Ted Nugent’s outright racist comments regarding President Obama, who Abbott prides in having sued over twenty-five times on the taxpayers’ tab that has soared to over 2.6 million dollars.

M: Dude! Ted Nugent is mainstream Republican Tea GOP, despite being called out superficially by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul for having said the following at the Las Vegas hunting and outdoors trade show just two months ago, in January: I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America.

D: Man! Kentucky Senator Rand Paul’s reproach is very superficial, considering a pro-secessionist, neo-Confederate dirt bag that calls himself the Southern Avenger and dons a Confederate flag facemask is also Rand Paul’s ghostwriter from the 2010 midterms and social media director since 2012. This is what that man, by the name of Jack Hunter, had to say about his involvement with and membership in The League of The South: When I was a part of it, they were very explicit that’s not what they were about [racism and discrimination]. I was a young person, it was a fairly radical group—the same way a person on the left might be attracted in college to some left-winged radical groups.      

M: Dude! I know where Jack Hunter’s argument is going. Senator Rand Paul’s rant in The Times liberally took from the difficult work of negotiations that President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have brilliantly utilized in place of military engagements and warfronts throughout the world, and basically honked out how the United States Constitution, not President Obama and Secretary Kerry’s wisdom of goodwill to all, had prevailed and caused the steps being taken in Syria and Iran at the moment.

D: Man! Doesn’t the American Press know that tomorrow these same neoconservative specks and planks, using Kentucky Senator Rand Paul’s backwoods lingo from his opinion piece for The Times, will turn against the will of the people of this country and reinstall another Bush Dynasty militarist and engage our sons and daughters in uniform in environments that never get the opportunity to being forensically analyzed before  battalion after battalion of our precious soldiers is sent out into such arid ecosystems and broiling temperatures?

M: Dude! The House of Representatives under Speaker John Boehner is unwilling to reconsider the Congressional Republicans’ active pursuit of tearing apart as much of President Obama’s executive authority as possible. And they are methodically going about the business of Congress that the most vulnerable feel the stinging pain of the legislation that is being touted as bipartisan and becoming law through such convoluted snakes like Wisconsin Congressman Representative Paul Ryan and Ohio Congressman Representative John Boehner, the Speaker of the House who can only shed a tear for his own humble roots—actually he can shed an entire ocean if he was allowed!

D: Man! The ocean of tears Speaker of the House and Ohio Representative John Boehner would release would be just as jagged and lined with mountainous debris as his bigoted contempt for the Executive Branch. It was a very Republican Tea GOP mentality that the Malaysian Airlines chose not to spend the added money needed for the equipment that could have immediately told investigators where to being searching for the missing Boeing 777, and not taking the concerted efforts of twenty-two countries’ economies to finally bring the tragedy some closure.    

M: Dude! According to Senator Rand Paul’s shortsighted rashness in The Times, We went to war in Afghanistan because they were harboring those who attacked us on 9/11. Mr. Putin’s cohorts went to war there three decades earlier for no legitimate reason. The United States until now has resisted arming one side of the Syrian civil war – all the while the other side has been armed by Russia. The United States has used diplomatic pressure to attempt to resolve the ongoing situation with Iran – Russia has just announced a large arms sale that will escalate tensions in the region.  

D: Man! Kentucky Senator Rand Paul’s literary attempts are as ambitious as they are inadequate. I have to say that Rand Paul’s desire to write a thesis is manifest and pestilent. I overheard that Rand Paul is going to be plagiarizing once again, entitling his pestiferous reproduction with a title that will remain unnoticed by Harvard University and University of California – Berkeley stilts. The title of it is as such: The Most Frivolous Statespersons Tarnishing Principles in International Law.   

M: Dude! Mike Huckabee was given a favorable reception by Harvard’s Institute of Politics, where Huckabee is a visiting fellow, while UC Berkeley’s The Berkeley Forum gave Rand Paul a dais and, according to an article in Politico, “The Kentucky Senator drew a largely friendly reception” too.

D: Man! Apparently, Harvard University and UC Berkeley have such shallow “strict scrutiny” that they defy reason and justice.

M: Dude! Putin resigned from a career in the KGB on August 20, 1991 in favor of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, and in opposition to the 1991 August Putsch! And when he did reengage in the by-then-defunct KGB, the first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin appointed him in a successor organization, the FSB or Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.

D: Man! President Putin has brought great economic growth to Russia, ironically during the time of the Clinton Administration surplus especially. When the United States is prosperous, so too are the world’s prospects. And when President Obama and Secretary Kerry speak on the behalf of our sons and daughters in uniform, you can be guaranteed that the two shall never disregard their battalions as sacrificial objects as George W. Bush and Robert M. Gates did, mentioned on page 37 in Gates’ 2014 memoir Duty: I proposed that we stop rotating officers at the battalion commander level and above in Iraq for the duration of the surge and that the State Department fill its open positions in Iraq, with involuntary assignments if necessary; both measures I thought were necessary to address the too-rapid turnover of American military officers with experience in Iraq and the insufficient number of civilians.

M: Dude! Don’t forget page 73 from Robert M. Gates’ memoir: Bush asked, “Why do people join the military if they don’t want to fight and defend the country?”    

D: Man! Yeah, if you’re as fraudulent as George W. Bush! President Putin is self-made, by the way, and can fly fighter jets, unlike George W. Bush and Mitt Romney’s fixation on costuming around as Tom Cruise from Top Gun or Erik Estrada from CHiPs.

M: Dude! Larry Wilcox, not Erik Estrada!

D: Man! Oh, yeah! Right!

Moral Mondays and Truthful Tuesdays

(D)ude: Man! Have you heard of American Vogue’s editor-in-chief Anna Wintour’s sudden captivation with groveling trashiness as displayed on the covers and elaborately inside of her last two issues of the Conde Nast publication? Wintour is being criticized superficially for what I believe is a deliberate national trend in the United States towards cultural degradation, especially with disrespect for girls and women. Actually, didn’t Joyce Carol Oates do homage to Lena Dunham in Vanity Fair as well last year or the year before that? And what about that film promoting the love story between an anguishing single mother in Massachusetts and a male convicted murderer starring actors Kate 

Winslet and Josh Brolin last year?

(M)an: Dude! I overheard Anna Wintour just wrapped up the next cover of American Vogue that will be following and detailing the heedlessness of the women of Duck Dynasty. The far right is trying hard to create a culture where women and girls are given the wrong messages about what being female entails. Couple that with the shutdown of reproductive health clinics across the United States and the carelessness with which abstinence-only programs are administered in grade schools, I wonder whether the sex educators scheduled to deconstruct the myths of human sexuality in Uganda can construct a compulsory online course for Rupert Murdoch and Faux News , the Brothers Koch and Americans For Prosperity, and the United States House of Representatives?    

D: Man! There is an elephant in the room regarding politics in the United States right now, and it is not Chris Christie and the Republican Governors Association that he presides over. It is the racism that the Republican Tea GOP elicits from constituents at the local and statewide levels towards the Obama Administration. Hillary Rodham Clinton should have actively sought out opportunities to defend President Obama’s foreign and domestic agendas, not deflect to the far right like her husband has. And the Democratic Party must remember that President Clinton signed one of the most jarring legislations against women and children on welfare with Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, the same piece of legislation that Congressional Republicans are now enthusiastically crediting President Clinton for instating.   

M: Dude! Moral Mondays and Truthful Tuesdays are bringing on the second coming and great awakening of human rights campaigns in the new millennium. We cannot move back to the 2010 midterms and the manufactured apathy and outright duping of the American electorate by national press and businesses into believing that the Republican Tea GOP is an answer and a way forward. The Republican Tea GOP only knows what Julian Assange tried to subliminally suggest to MSNBC audiences watching Alex Wagner’s show on March 14, 2014, a Friday.             

D: Man! Julian Assange purposefully placed some saucy tidbits in his Q & A with Alex Wagner to ignite hatred and violence, I believe. I have the transcript and Assange answered one of Alex Wagner’s questions like this, quote unquote, I think that history is on our side. And that is becoming quite clear to nearly everyone now. I mean, you have to wonder what is going to be the real legacy of the Barack Obama Administration. It is not shaping up to be good, while our legacy is, I think, something that myself—and all our staff— can be very proud of. This claim by Assange was made 12 minutes into the interview, but there was one other very condescending racialist sentiment of his that made my blood boil as a fellow White chap myself.   

M: Dude! The American Civil Liberties Union, South By Southwest, and RT America all helped 

orchestrate groveling Dick Cheney fans into the spotlight the following weekend after Julian Assange’s interview with Alex Wagner. That ACLU, SXSW, and RT America can align anywhere near feckless squealer propagandists like Edward Snowden and stoolie pigeon propagandists such as Julian Assange tells a lot about the depravity and Koch Klutz Klan clannishness of these organizations.    

D: Man! But I have hard evidence of the Koch Klutz Klan clannishness that these organizations via another salacious sound bite by Julian Assange in his interview with Alex Wagner: There is something pretty interesting going on here, where the West is now somewhere you seek asylum from or at least the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Americans fear, um, but, fortunately we now live in a world where having taken asylum and having had to go to another country, you can still publish and still talk freely, provided you can keep yourself out of prison. This claim by Julian Assange was made thirteen and a half minutes into the interview, and desiccated my own Anglo-American roots.

M: Dude! Julian Assange is a recruiter for the Koch Klutz Klan?

D: Man! Julian Assange is an active member of the Koch Klutz Klan!

M: Dude! The everyday people Ed Schultz talks to on his show and who identify themselves as White America display anger towards President Obama that has me worried about the midterms. It’s like how Narendra Modi is attempting to collapse the George W. Bush presidency on top of Barack Obama’s presidency, causing India and the surrounding countries to hate the United States of America because of what George W. Bush did and to suggest that President Obama’s handling of foreign affairs has only continued to hurt India and its neighbors.  

D: Man! The Republican Tea GOP approach to campaigning this year is to hammer into the minds of everyday Americans like US that repealing Obamacare is a viable and worthwhile platform. Even Hillary Rodham Clinton’s talking points at conferences across the country include the perspective of postponement of the Affordable Care Act for the intents and purposes of revision. But does she not know of the countless lives that have benefitted and beat grave odds with the provisions within Obamacare?  

M: Dude! I have to change my physician, which the Republican Tea GOP are scaring people into believing is a bad outcome of the Affordable Care Act. But one of the great benefits is that the new list of physicians that I get to choose from are actually more vulnerable to being reviewed and reevaluated for the sake of quality in medical care. In fact, my parents’ insurance company actually found the psychiatrist my father chose for a second opinion consultation recently to be inefficient after he kept making my father appointments for what were supposed to be 45 minute sessions but only lasted barely 20 minutes at best. Fraud and professional ineptitude are being factored into the American healthcare system thanks to the Affordable Care Act. The health insurance company found that psychiatrist negligent, by the way.

D: Man! With competition in the marketplace, American Medicine is being reformed much to the chagrin of yesterday’s monopolistic and abusive healthcare industry.