{"id":514,"date":"2008-01-10T10:19:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T17:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2008\/01\/10\/bullshit-and-van-goghs-ear\/"},"modified":"2009-06-17T18:08:37","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T01:08:37","slug":"bullshit-and-van-goghs-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2008\/01\/10\/bullshit-and-van-goghs-ear\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullshit and Van Gogh&#8217;s Ear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2008\/1\/8\/12026\/94986\/589\/432671\">What leaves you most wary during Election Season with its Polls<\/a> (scroll down)<\/p>\n<p><> <> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/im3\/janhappy.jpg\" alt=\"Silent Majority by Janet Paparelli\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janetpaparelli.com\/\"><br \/>\n(Janet Paparelli<\/a> sent me her new year&#8217;s greeting with this image.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mhcyoung.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/democrazy.html\">Democrazy<\/a> is here to stay. (Mark Young who posted this shortest blog entry is a poet from Australia)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5QoMOoQDdCw\">Dogmacracy<\/a> (Daisy and Spike &#8211; or Hillary vs Obama, the two chihuahuas&#8217; one act play) now enters another round for a re-run. (They can&#8217;t raise money but they can growl and pretend better than any of the current candidates. Growling politicians is universal, here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sn57QPG-1QE\">Issay Ogata<\/a> playing a politician.)<br \/>\nMatt has two great links on<a href=\"http:\/\/pasaudela.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/why-not-outsource-american-politics.html\"> Why not outsource American politics? and Bullshit<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/eartotheground\/item\/20080110_clintons_diebold_bump\/\">Clinton Diebold Bump<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The point is this: Voting machine security is essential to our democratic process, and remains a problem that has not been resolved.<br \/>\nAs long as these devices have serious vulnerabilities, doubt is possible, and a healthy democracy cannot function effectively in the shadows. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/01\/04\/AR2008010404308.html?hpid=opinionsbox1\">He lost to Nixon in 1972,<\/a> still speaks to us with the voice of reason. <\/p>\n<p>And something else that turns your ear to dead meat.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2008\/01\/13\/david-ireland\/\">David Ireland <\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/im3\/irelandvangogh.jpg\" alt=\"David Ireland\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Three Attempts to Understand Van Gogh&#8217;s Ear in Terms of the Map of Africa<\/strong>, 1987 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.culturevulture.net\/ArtAndArch\/Ireland.htm\">image source<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.socketsite.com\/archives\/2008\/01\/david_irelands_500_capp_street_inside_and_on_the_market.html\">David Ireland&#8217;s 500 Capp Street:<\/a>  Inside And Soon To Be On The Market. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2008\/01\/13\/david-ireland\/\">David Ireland<\/a> mini retrospective is long overdue, stay tuned.)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kieyjfZDUIc&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kieyjfZDUIc&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n(Directed by Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/2008\/01\/07\/shocking-greed\/\">&#8220;The Shock Doctrine&#8221;<\/a> is high lighted at agog for people who don&#8217;t have time to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What leaves you most wary during Election Season with its Polls (scroll down) (Janet Paparelli sent me her new year&#8217;s greeting with this image.) Democrazy is here to stay. (Mark Young who posted this shortest blog entry is a poet from Australia) Dogmacracy (Daisy and Spike &#8211; or Hillary vs Obama, the two chihuahuas&#8217; one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2008\/01\/10\/bullshit-and-van-goghs-ear\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bullshit and Van Gogh&#8217;s Ear&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,10,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-culture","category-humor","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}