Rolling Stone Magazine making money on the Dead

The good fortune of your misfortune is proved over and over in America where you can kill people and then become a celebrity. There is nothing worse than anonymity and now the scum that lies under the toilet seat now s like Bruce Springsteen and is on the cover of Rolling Stone. Counter culture hooey aside it is a corporate ploy to maximize sales on the back of the dead. Clearly that is what this is about. Forget that the Boston Bomber now looks like a rock star...Rolling Stone has lost any mantle to anything counter other than craven capitalism.

And what can you say. Everyone involved in the Zimmerman joke trial will make money. Except  Trayvon. Book deals will abound for jurors and lawyers and George. Some people will become rich. Profiting off the dead who make nothing. What about the people without legs or the people who lost their lives. They will not be on the cover of Rolling Stone. But the creep that did the deed is there in his Rock Star Byronic pose. It does make you want to puke.

And who knows if Trayvon will ever get justice or if the victims of the Boston bombing will see their man put to death or incarcerated for life. He put the picture on line himself so he is behind his own fame right now. From the picture he is living the life of  O'Reilly. And the editors of Rolling Stone who are already hiding behind journalistic integrity ( it is a heavily researched article) all should be canned if the magazine will ever have any credibility again.

Being a shill to make money for your parent corporation is pretty disgusting when it is on the backs of the dead.

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Boston Marathon Attack Brings Back 9/11 Demons

The Boston Marathon attack brings up those old 9/11 monsters. The first one is fear and the response to that is to run. My wife and I made our decision to move away from Chicago based in no small part on the fear of another attack after 9/11. There were circles on nuclear blast maps that showed we would be in the kill zone should a dirty bomb hit the windy city. There were other issues yes (small hosue) but the overall feeling was get the hell away from the terror that would be coming to Chicago. So we did.

And now years later we have made peace with that decision as there were other factors, but watching the Boston Marathon coverage you get that old "oh shit." Are they going to hit again? So the people who live in Boston and who have always felt safe now feel vulnerable. In the week after 9/11 when I went to Chicago the city was empty. It was bizarre but no one wanted to be around when a plane hit the John Hancock or the Sears Tower. And of course being close to the airport left that weird silence when the planes were grounded.

And I know we should not be so cowered by terrorists. That we should go about our lives. But couldn't we make a case that as a country fear has ruled our politics, ruined our economy and caused two wars that we are still suffering from? And so now we have the Boston Marathon. People are just beginning to understand what happened. But when the smoke clears there will be those that will make decisions based on perceived risks.

It seems like the ghost of 9/11 is still there.

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