Monthly Archives: August 2015
The I Ran Into a Bomb of a Deal
The argument against the Iran Deal’s publicized “merits” to extinguish the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism’s pursuit of a nuclear weapon is that a better deal could have been negotiated. The problem with that assertion is the foolish presumption that what currently exists qualifies as an agreement with any degree of effectiveness.
It’s downright terrible and embarrassing on an epic level.
“Iran, in an unusual arrangement, will be allowed to use its own experts to inspect a site it allegedly used to develop nuclear arms under a secret agreement with the U.N. agency that normally carries out such work,” the Associated Press reports.
Don’t be fooled: The P5+1 did not engage in negotiations with Iran all these years, but instead gradually collapsed into a series of devastatingly bad concessions to one of the most dangerous countries in the world.
What did the United States get in this agreement? The answer is increasingly nothing relative to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. The consequences of this deal for Israel are directly connected to its survival.
The key question in all of this is why did it take Secretary Kerry and Co. so long to give the farm and all the land away? The willful incompetence and delusional views of the Obama Administration (not just with this deal) is simply incomprehensible.
If we don’t like President Obama’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad deal, tough luck because we’ll likely have to live with President Obama’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad deal.
Out of curiosity, are there any international sanctions against common sense? If so, the U.S. and its P5+1 allies are in trouble.
From 30 Rock to Wordy Shock
The Blue Jean Committee is coming to a TV near you!
Impressionists Bill Hader and Fred Armisen, whose DNA includes the need to relentlessly escape into humorously absurd characters, as well as a ’70s slow rock band, have a brand new show with fellow SNL buddy Seth Meyers. The show is called Documentary Now! and it starts airing on the IFC Channel this Thursday at 10:00 p.m. What’s arguably more insane than their portrayals of well-known documentary filmmakers is that the series has already been renewed for seasons 2…and 3 before episode one has even premiered.
If crazy and ridiculous made a television show together, it would have some catching up to do to match the comedic duo of Hader and Armisen in their latest collaborative experiment.
Whether the show is a success like Armisen’s hilarious Portlandia is up in the air, but at least it will be documented.
Happy Monday!
Why treat Monday like a Monday?
Traditionally, it’s the beginning of the workweek. Unconventionally, it’s the beginning of the next great party.
Party Like It’s 1961!
Where Does Art Begin?
Art is making a bold impression in the 21st century.
Pulling a Ferris Bueller’s Day Off at a museum may become a thing of the past. Not entirely, of course. But like any industry that invites freedom of expression and innovative ideas, there are pressure points that eventually build to what formally become defined as movements.
In the art world, we are experiencing its intellectual and emotional effects like never before.
Whether we cross a street with an all-too-real 3-D cliff, bike on a sidewalk that lights up to the colors and scheme of van Gogh’s Starry Night or walk in the rain without getting wet, our interaction with art’s infinite imagination is expanding into the immersive.
Future three-dimensional innovations may include both the technological with glasses and the experiential sans glasses. Why just look at art when you can go inside art? There’s no name yet for this still evolving movement.
Perhaps it will be called the “Whether Age,” meaning we have to constantly determine whether we’re in life or art.
Or both…
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