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America's Sweetheart

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 Forget Michele Bachmann... how about Nancy Grace for President? - that little firecracker of retribution with the carnivore gleam in her eyes, the pouty lips concealing fangs of vengeance, the wafting perfume of scorn and opprobrium, a very exterminating angel among the lumbering dark hairy beasts of Sodom America. I cringe a little, frankly, when I click through the CNN gauntlet and glimpse Nancy in full dudgeon, her delicate nostrils quivering with rage. Does she want to kick my ass, too? Who put the testosterone in that girl's Red Bull?


All last week it was Casey Anthony 24/7 on the cable news stations - and Nancy Grace's nostrils were flaring so wide I was afraid her head might explode. But let's face it: America is fascinated with Casey because Casey IS America. America, just like Casey, is too busy looking for the latest party to take care of its children. But just you wait. The court of public opinion is going to lay a million-dollar book deal on Casey Anthony, and a Made-for-TV movie deal, and a "reality" show on the Food Channel ("101 Meals You'll Never Have to Serve To Your Annoying Child Because You Killed It"), plus cars, luxury homes, personal watercraft, a wardrobe of phosphorescent tube-tops and hot-girl skirts, and sixteen untapped credit cards that have been prayed over by qualified preachers twenty-four hours a day....


I'm sure glad I don't live in Florida.


Did you ever get the feeling that your country was melting down into a puddle of toxic goop? And presiding over the meltdown, under that sturdy, bomb-proof, gleaming, platinum helmet of perfectly plasticized hair... the stern visage of Nancy Grace, beaming disapproval across every hill and mole-hill of this land. Sometimes I fear Nancy would like to wrap duct tape over America's head and just throw the damn thing in her fabulous backyard pool.

I couldn't help thinking last week that this Casey Anthony verdict business was the odd "tipping point" incident that would finally shove the zombified American public into some mode of animate engagement with the reality that lies beyond reality TV. But so far it's still just reckless housewives and monster trucks as far as the eye can see across this tortured landscape. I was more than halfway expecting something new and different - like, say, a dispossessed 99er taking a horsewhip to Mitt Romney at some Iowa meet-and-greet. I would pay cash money to see Nancy Grace paddle the fucker with a cricket bat. If the heat is getting to me here in upstate New York, imagine how addled their brain-pans must be in the Heartland! It was 113 in Kansas City yesterday.


Well, don't worry America. If you don't have the energy to flush yourself down the drain, it looks like Europe will do it for you. PIIGS are flying over there. Straight into the black hole of insolvency. They have reached the point where they can't pay for anything anymore and they've run out of tricks for pretending. Something has finally shoved these countries past the financial point of no return and now the political pillars are shaking loose. There is simply too much tension in the money system and, long about last Friday, you could hear the distant sound of something snapping - I think it was a big Italian bank. The whole Mediterranean rim is about to return to the living standard of about 1830. They could be so pissed off, they'll eat the very tourists who amount to their last remaining revenue stream. Meanwhile, I don't see how all the other banks survive this evolving cataclysm.


Including the big US banks, most particularly the so-called Too-Big-To-Fails. President Obama goes before the TV cameras in an hour or so. It had been my impression that he was going to try and throw a scare into his fellow pols over the debt ceiling and all that. But by the time he gets to the microphone, the bourses of Europe will be in full swing. Will he, as rumored on the Web, declare some "executive action" on the debt issue, telling Congress (in effect), "... your services in this matter are no longer required"-? This is a very gnarly moment of history. We are turning a page in the grand fiction of what money is and whether we are capable of governing ourselves.


We have over a thousand cable TV channels where I live, and none of them puts on a coherent news program on Sunday nights, so weekends have become news blackouts. Talk about the diminishing returns of technology! Have you heard enough yet about Casey and Little Caylee? Do you need to know what Juror X had for breakfast that dark day when the verdict was delivered? Are you feeling so bad about yourself and your nation that you, too, need a paddling from Nancy Grace? O land of seething woman attorneys, we are a wicked people who deserve to be punished. Bring us our just desserts - but not the low-fat tofu cheesecake, thank you - and deliver us from fecklessness. And folks, remember to hydrate!




James Howard Kunstler



James Howard Kunstler’s new novel of the post-oil future, World Made By Hand, is available at all booksellers. 

 

 




 




 




 




 







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James Howard Kunstler has worked as a reporter and feature writer for a number of newspapers, and finally as a staff writer for Rolling Stone Magazine. In 1975, he dropped out to write books on a full-time basis. His nonfiction book, "The Long Emergency," describes the changes that American society faces in the 21st century. Discerning an imminent future of protracted socioeconomic crisis, Kunstler foresees the progressive dilapidation of subdivisions and strip malls, the depopulation of the American Southwest, and, amid a world at war over oil, military invasions of the West Coast; when the convulsion subsides, Americans will live in smaller places and eat locally grown food.
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GM: Good points about Romney and I wouldn't push his nomination at this time. He certainly has a conflicted political philosophy. But whatever Romney's real positions, Kunstler's considers him an obstacle and that's in his (Romney's) favor.
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Good point Jim C. Compared to Kuntsler's idol, Barack Hussein Obama/Soetoro/Soebarkah/Bounel, Romney looks pretty good, although I would be extremely disappointed if he was the GOP nominee.
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Kuntsler seems to be in an advanced state of meltdown. He also confuses the dregs of America, which he seems to focus on, as its median, which it is not.

Jim C.: Look a little closer at Romney. He's no Conservative. he's a NWO candidate right out of central casting. He has reversed multiple positions which do not sell well in his party: Global Warming, cap 'n trade trade, abortion, spending, Obamneycare and more. If he gets nominated, he'll be sold by the GOP as the "lesser of two evils."
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Just as dependable as locusts returning every 17 years, so do we get an article from Kunstler every Monday. I'ts nice to have pests so predictable -- it allows us to prepare by gathering the tomatoes, spaying the yard, keeping the kids home from school, sealing doors and windows.

This week Kunstler attacks Nancy Grace (a foil for America) who had the audacity to be outraged at the injustice of the Casey Anthony decision. A woman murders her child and Grace is enraged. What's wrong with the woman? Kunstler thinks Grace would like "...to wrap duct tape over America's head and just throw the damn thing in her fabulous backyard pool."

What we really have is Kunstler projecting his own agenda for you, I, and the rest of us gun-toting, SUV driving Americans: those of us not wishing to chuck our industrial civilization and live in the woods. And what was that dig at Grace's "fabulous backyard pool" about? Methinks a little socialist's envy at the bourgeoisie.

And to show his level of sophistication, his urbane vocabulary, he refers to Romney as a "fucker" who ought to be paddled and horsewhipped. Why? Romney is a conservative and probably the best hope of rolling back government power and intervention in our lives -- something Kunstler and the left dreads like a plague of locusts. Ironic isn't it?

I'ts Monday and....the pests are back.

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Yawn!! Usual crap commentries! No doubt Mr Kunstler amuses himself by reading these reviews and then does his best to wind you guys up even further which from where im reading is dead easy. I agree totally with his views on biased and corrupt media and his obvious dislike of Romney who has alledgedly just recieved a campaign windfall from his Wall street buddies. Why you people cant see that Ron Paul is the only credible solution to Americas myriad problems beggars belief!
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Phil: I agree with you about Romney and corrupt media. We don't write these comments for Kuntsler, but for the readers.

I have a problem with Paul, who is weak on amnesty, inserts earmarks which he knows will be accepted then, votes against them and is on the complete opposite side of the scale from the warmongers and would would leave us with nearly no defenses. There is a prudent medium. He hasn't shown any particular ability at collaboratve work. His main drawing point is his ideas, most, but not all of which are good. He would probably be good to have as Secretary of the Treasury, but I wish he had more concrete plans than merely burning down all the Federal Reserve buildings and declaring that only gold is valid. Then what? How to transition? How to pick up the pieces?

He sanctimoniously says he is quitting his Congressional job to focus on running for President, but didn't do that last time. Could it be because he was recently redistricted out by his opposition? I believe that Paul 2.0 will exceed his father's achievements.
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Yawn!! Usual crap commentries! No doubt Mr Kunstler amuses himself by reading these reviews and then does his best to wind you guys up even further which from where im reading is dead easy. I agree totally with his views on biased and corrupt media and  Read more
phil A. - 7/12/2011 at 7:05 PM GMT
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