Wealth Bondage

Play "Homeless or Jesus?"

Posted by Jack and Jill, Satisfied WB Consumers

Didn't hold our attention.

News a Few Years too Late

Posted by The Happy Tutor

Why is it that now, with Bush's polls down, and the public clamoring for an exit from Iraq, and the indictment in place, that the NYTIme and others are beginning to report on how the public was fooled by the build up to the Iraq war? We, some of us, were fooled by the Times. Surely, they were not dupes. They went with the flow then and now. What are they saying about the propaganda buildup for a war against Syria? Why are they not reporting their own connivance and malfeasance? Only when blame enters the closed system do the elements in that ensemble begin to parse the blame, pointing it to another element within the ensemble of wealth bondage. What is never indicted is the ensemble, within which individuals come and go responsive to incentives, neglectful of the public good. Candidia notices that paper sales are up, offsetting any losses in her investment in Libby.

J.R. Damien

Posted by Missy Proctor, WB '03

Jayzus! I don't get this.

About the Author: Keeper of poor hours and bad habits, coffee addict, "thug philosopher" as described in passing, you will hardly know who I am or what I mean.

Why do these nerds try to make it hard to understand them? Like, what, they have some kind of big secret or something? Good taste sucks.

Dumpster Housing Boom: Values Reach All Time Highs

Posted by The Happy Tutor

My blog is worth $74,519.28.
How much is your blog worth?

Command and Control Blogging From the Front

Posted by Joseph McPatriot

Building a force capable of taking on extremists wherever they are found, domestic or international, will require a new kind of soldier who understands message discipline, ordered liberty and the sanctity of life in the womb. Too many of our soldiers today think for themselves. The enemy lies within. Death to bloggers who betray their Commander to ridicule, giving aid and comfort to the enemies who prefer democracy to total victory!

Hard Cheese

Posted by The Happy Tutor

"True Italian Mozzarella is made from Buffalo milk..." Unhunh with the recipe handed down from Hiawatha. Ah, they mean water buffalo.

On Plagiarism in the Age of Digitial Reproduction

Posted by Missy Proctor, WB '03

Jeez, I am taking these courses for Wealth Bondage, to qualify as a newscaster. And the teacher said I plagiarized my term paper. Fucking-A! How can he say I stole it? I bought it for $50. What do you think, anyways, the news steals the governnment press releases and pretends they created them. It is all rip and burn. Get real, Teacher I mean it is sick! These teachers of composition are just trying to protect their own stupid jobs by artificially restricting the supply of old term papers. They want us to pay them to teach us how to write for Chrissakes when we can buy it cheaper. Free markets demand better. I am going to tell Daddy to get my teacher fired. He is on the Board of Trustees. Daddy wants to insure the responsible management of higher education resources and that means firing losers.

Being Precedes Essence

Posted by The Happy Tutor

Overheard at lunch in a sandwich shop: A well dressed middle-aged man on his cell phone,

Man, she knew I smoked when she married me, but I told her I stopped. Then she found my stuff and she asked me if I still smoked, and I told her sometimes, well, ok, yes, alot. And she got all like pissed off and everything, and so I told her, "Look this is not something I am it is just something I do." But she stayed pissed off and she threw me out. I mean I told her it isn't something I am, it's just something I do, ok?

Miliblogger Silenced

Posted by Joseph McPatriot

Well, be realistic. If you are a soldier who wants to saitirize your chain of command, you are lucky to be alive. If the US really was a Fascist State, soldiers critical of the President would be shot as Traitors, which what they deserve. In a time of War it is particularly important that we maintain message discipline in defense of Freedom.

Private Conversation in a Public Space

Posted by The Happy Tutor

Examples of private conversation in a public place,

* The Lime-tree Bower My Prison by Coleridge
* Any scene from a play
* Cell phones overheard in airport lounges
* People at the next table in a restaurant
* Blogs
* Barbara Walters conversing intimately with a tv quest

Writing with an awareness of those who overheard is, what
* art?
* exhibitionism?
* insubordination?
* obliviousness?

For whom is WB written? At various points,
* the self as in diary posted on line, as if left lying around
* a few key readers who become friends
* for those who have linked, and in the hope they will again
* for those in the comment section, to keep a conversation alive
* for those who conduct surveillance
* for those who may give or deny a joby
* for those who search on identifying info in Google
* for family and friends who might be embarrassed
* for the one who will understand and forgive
* for the one who will misunderstand and attack
* for the one who will understand and not forgive
* for the one who will misunderstand and nod sagely

Blogging is an intimate voice in a public space, a potentially hostile one. "Watch what you say," is the prudent advice, but our humanity overwhelms our caution, and we shame those who would intimidate us, and put fear in their hearts, whey they see, despite all their lies, intellectual property regimes, propaganda, and commercial imagery, we are still here, we being so many of us, and we remain unimpressed, undaunted, and as contemptuous as ever of those we serve so nimbly in Wealth Bondage, using our real names as deceitful masks, and our many antic masks to enatct the truth in dumbshow.