The Who, 9-11 conspiracy theories, Kerry makes bid for his Presidential manhood 2 years too late, and Heroes starts getting me sleepy.

I love a good concept album. “The Wall” and “Operation Mindcrime” are my 2 all time favorites with honorable mention going to Green Day’s recent “American Idiot”. I hear My Chemical Romance’s new one is a concept album and good but I haven’t heard any of it. System Of The Down’s most recent may be but I haven’t heard enough of it.

But is a story about a deaf and blind guy who has a facility for playing pinball machines really worthy of an hour concept album?

There’s alot of good songs on Tommy, as well as alot of filler, but it’s just kind of hard to get too involved in a story so specific.

I mean no matter how hard I try I just can’t quite relate to being deaf, dumb, and blind.

Or rocking the pinball machines.

And being named Tommy Walker.

Yeah there’s some non-literal connections I have to the idea of feeling isolated and unable to connect to the world around me.

But for me Pink Floyd’s The Wall covers this territory better without drawing too fine a characterization that it takes me out of the concept.

Plus The Wall is more thematic than narrative. I think that helps offer itself to a wider interpretation.

I just thought it was about time I spoke out about this.
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9-11 conspiracy theorists.

Yeah there’s some interesting and troubling information out there. But why do all the books and sites I’ve seen not go more in depth into the questions they ponder and ignore quite possible and practical interpretation?

And how about legit contrarian views?

So a White House-Air Force code was used to say Air Force 1 was going to be hit next.

Does that have to mean terrorists were given our codes by insiders?

Isn’t it more likely that someone in our own military was throwing out the possiblitly that the terrorists were targeting Air Force 1 with flight 93?

Would terrorists announce that they were about to go after Air Force 1? They didn’t announce that they were about to hit Tower 2 did they?

Bush and My Pet Goat. Yeah there are questions about how he saw tower 1 get hit before going into the class when there was no footage of that until later that night at the earliest. But maybe he really did just have faulty recollection and got his words all wrong.

He is kind of prone to that.

But saying him sitting there when an attack is under way that for all he knew was targeting him is a stretch. I don’t think one of the 6 year olds was operating out of a sleeper cell and about to toss a grenade onto the floor.

And if a hijacked plane could have hit a little school than damn you just have to give that one to Osama and say “you guys are fucking good.”

There are much bigger contradictions to hit these guys on than the tower 1 thing.

THere’s alot of other stuff like that. But the biggest omissions is the lack of differing viewpoints allowed into their internal debates.

I can’t stand the right wing for being so onesided and I feel no less impatience, if not contempt for those that tie them to conspiracy theories. They are alot just like the administration which tries to silence the voices of science and reason. In fact most reputable scientists have perfectly plausible reasons for how the towers fell for instance. Those that can’t understand it, rather than being at the forefront of scientific discovery, are more like those corporate-administration shills who don’t think there’s any real evidence for global warming or environmental catastrophe.

I mean yeah I got off on that whole steel melts at 2800 degrees and jet fuel only burns up to 1500.

But steel is weakened at about 1200.

And there was more burning than jet fuel which poured down utility shafts the planes severed and acted as an incindiary device for all kinds of stuff in those towers.

The Bush administration is evil and cynically and cowardly acted in their best interest after 9-11. Perhaps they even acted a bit slowly for some nefarious reasons and were aware of something brewing. But most of the stuff out there has been debunked and alot of the stuff used is just plain illogical.

They are evil and stupid but a little common sense here people.
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Why does Kerry have to keep reminding me that he’s smart and tough AFTER the 04 campaign. The latest comment about educations and getting stuck in Iraq is a generalization but still a pretty fair one. I mean there is a reason the armed forces recruit in low income areas and get school records to find out who’s doing the worst so they can step up efforts to recruit them.

I love that Kerry refused to completely apologize even if his explanation was a bit equivicating. Yeah you forgot the “us,” John. Whatever.

Why couldn’t you be less of a snivelling puppet 2 years ago asshole?

And Republicans trying to turn this into a rallying point for the midterms is both hilarious and irritating. These guys are amazing in how coordinated they are getting on to a new talking point aimed at digging into the subconscious of the weakminded. Even Bush was out there the next day driving a crowd into a frothing frenzy of hate and derision against Kerry like he’s still campaigning against him.

This is replacing the most recent talking point which was all the rage for a week or so where every right wing pundit and politician was asking people who showed disagreement with them if they even wanted to see our troops win. Bill O’Reilly even did it to David Lettermen last week.

And I’m so sick of these hatemongers hiding behind the military. They use these men and women to grant themselves a cloak of validity the same way they use religion. Here’s one from Laura Bush today:

“Responsible candidates understand that the men and women of our military are risking their lives for us, and that we must conduct our debate here at home in a way that does not jeopardize our troops in harm’s way,” she said, calling for “conversations conducted with civility and respect.”

Fuck you Stepford Bitch.

That’s just how much respect you’ve earned.

Would it chock me if they and the media succeed into turning this Kerry thing into a shift in polls?

No. I’ve said all along I expect the Democrats to find a way to screw things up. Yeah I thought Kerry was done being one of the guys doing it. But hey for old times sake right John?

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Onto less important tv matters.

Heroes is starting to suck.

IT kind of started when Claire went from the cool “Holy shit” ending line to “Oh my god” when they started off in that spot the next week.

But it was no biggie. At least in that same ep we got Hiro and his pal doing the casino escalator homage to Rain Man.

But the last 2 eps haven’t been good and last Monday’s absolutely bored the spit out of me.

Could I be any less interested in Nikki and her mirror mirror on the wall who’s the craziest superhero of them all bit?

I suppose.

But not by much.

And yeah we have to suspend alot of belief with this thing but plumes and rocket noises when Petrelli flies? If for one moment I could by evolutionary adaptation requiring the defiance of gravity, why would it be so pronounced and exaggerated?

And why would walking through stuff be an adaptation?

Alot of Minotaurian mazes in the future maybe. But in 2006 not so much.

And evolution isn’t usually one for ever defying physics.

I suppose some quantum mechanical genetically engineered psuedo scientific explanation could be offered that I can live with. But Shuresh keeps going on and on about evolution and its inner workings, logic, and processes in those annoying voice overs. And though it’s all pretty much true we’re not talking about opposable thumbs or a cerebral cortex here.

Give me more Hiro and Isaac and I can hang in a bit longer and hope for things to get better. I really do want to screw the cheerleader to save the world like Hiro said but that Nikki is just annoying every second she’s on screen.

We had her pegged for a bad guy and it turns out she is and not DL who I do kind of like even if I’m embarrased I can’t tell the difference between him and the mind wiper guy working with Claire’s dad. Or Gunn from “Angel,” for that matter.