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for all we know, bin laden was disposed of at sea because the ship's refrigerator he's been stored in for the past 8 years broke down.
i don't see anything interesting in this. i found it interesting that the infotainment was understood as important enough to warrant it coming up in the 9th inning of the phillies unfortunate loss to the mets. like something from "the harder they come" really.
i'm hoping that this is a final bit of punctuation on the pathetic story of the "war on terror" and the collective lurch toward some nitwit neo-fascism that it engendered.
i'm hoping that the end of that story will open up space for a rethinking of priorities in the united states.
maybe we will see the beginning of the dismantling of the national security state finally and a reallocation of resources away from killing people in great number in the name of freedom and other such words toward developing approaches to making people's lives better.
sadly it won't mean the end of meathead jingoism.
but one can hope for that too.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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