February 10, 2005

Proverbs for Paranoids, 3

Cecil Vortex

Hit this quote today in Pynchon's amazing Gravity's Rainbow that summed up our current political situation way too perfectly:

Proverbs for Paranoids, 3: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Which leads back to the query my brain just can't shake:

Prince Charles and his flowering love life aside, why the [expletive] doesn't anyone in the media seem to care what the [expletive] happened in the Iraq election?

[expletive]!

update: well, my conspiracy concerns can subside at least for a bit -- the results are in and front page news.

still more update: well the news and initial analysis appears to be relatively positive. Ah, if only our country required a 2/3s vote to pick our leader.

I still think it's peculiar in a disturbing sort of way that the media just went quiet on the Iraq vote for about two weeks there. But here's hoping I was offbase with my recent alarmist rants.

Posted by cecil at February 10, 2005 11:49 PM | TrackBack
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thought I found a calming development -- looked like cnn.com had put up a section devoted to the question of "what the [expletive] happened in the Iraq election:

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/iraq.transition/

but then you click around and all the articles on the election results and analysis are several days old. Creeeeeepy.

Posted by: cecil vortex at February 11, 2005 7:10 AM
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