tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post5240582169324724710..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-60170135304700790342014-12-08T16:43:14.737-05:002014-12-08T16:43:14.737-05:00Thanks for that. I added it to the post.Thanks for that. I added it to the post.Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-46087611396131856102014-12-08T13:13:46.598-05:002014-12-08T13:13:46.598-05:00Readers may be relieved to know that Gulnara Karim...Readers may be relieved to know that Gulnara Karimova is not only under international investigation but has also fallen out really seriously with her papa and has been <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28869885" rel="nofollow">living under house arrest</a>, deprived of her Twitter account and able to communicate with the outside world only by subterfuge since March. Uneasy lies the head...Yastreblyanskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08335868257729063363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-10515827124451530802014-12-08T11:10:01.507-05:002014-12-08T11:10:01.507-05:00@Missy: To an extent I disagree. The effect of w...@Missy: To an extent I disagree. The effect of watching conspicuous consumption on reality TV is that you learn to hate these people. But it's still programming: by watching you learn that there are rich assholes reveling in their asshole-ish-ness, so you hate _them_, not the rigged system from which they benefit. It's easier to hate a plastic-surgery-obsessed socialite than to hate the Koch Brothers' alliance with ALEC.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-50496250739884645172014-12-08T10:39:50.868-05:002014-12-08T10:39:50.868-05:00Shows like Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and a...Shows like Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and all of those reality programs that celebrate the extremely wealthy have convinced extremely silly and very poor thinkers that ONE DAY THAT WILL BE ME. The programming literally programs them unable to recognize the massive wage theft being perpetrated on them.Missy Vixenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04467751106385592393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-86168148993921309022014-12-08T10:25:28.157-05:002014-12-08T10:25:28.157-05:00I refuse to watch or listen to that.
And you can&#...I refuse to watch or listen to that.<br />And you can't make me, Steve!<br /><br />That seems like it would be like Stalin's daughter doing Ella Fitzgerald songs. Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.com