Didn’t I say this already? Yes. I did. Only this time, the phrase has been phased out officially. When revisionism fails to work, then a change of language is in order. I wish other issues were so linguistically manageable. When next my kitchen sink is clogged, I could just say that my drain is just maintaining a steely and admirable resolve against the insistent force of gravity.
Goodbye “Stay The Course” … though I can’t say that any of us will miss you as much as the President himself. One can only hope that the next phrase of power will be as easy to say and simple to remember. Depending on the outcome of the upcoming midterms, the Bush administration might just go with a dismissive and meaningless catch-phrase like “America Prevails” or “So Say We All” and have done with it.
Next Thought …
Lupe Fiasco. He’s 25 years old. If you’ve listened to Kanye West’s “Touch The Sky,” he’s the guest star that namechecks anime’s own Lupin The 3rd. His debut album has been out for a few weeks now. Though initial Billboard reports called it a commercial failure, it was soon discovered that somebody forgot to throw Best Buy’s retail sales into the spreadsheet. Oops. Turns out he was #1 in hip-hop, #2 in R & B and #8 overall. Not bad for a self-professed nerd from Chicago who lists shortwave radio and chess in his hobbies.
On top of it all, Fiasco is a mighty lyricist who holds nothing back when he’s got something heavy on his mind. Like in “American Terrorist,” a beautifully produced track about the human WMDs we might be breeding in our own backyard, all for the sake of more profit … or maybe for the sake of a Savior that isn’t coming back soon enough to satisfy some.
Camoflouged torahs, bibles and glorious qurans -
The books that take you to heaven
and let you meet the Lord there
have become misinterpreted,
reasons for warfare.
We read em with blind eyes.
I guarantee you there’s more there.
The rich must be blind,
because they didnt see the poor there.
Lupe Fiasco – “American Terrorist (with Matthew Santos)”
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The more money that they make … the better and better they live ….
