“The Russian word poshlost suggests the transcendent vulgarity at work in the Marcos spectacle. Poshlost is something preposterously overdone but without self-knowledge or irony. It is comic and sad and awful.” The Shoes of Imelda Marcos.
Suzette Nicolas is not a “victim”. Can we finally stop pretending that she is?
Suzette Nicolas is not a “victim”. Let’s get this straight. She didn’t get played, she played us.
Suzette Nicolas is not a “victim”. Sure, she was weepy and vengeful when she needed the support of Gabriela, pandering politicians, and the ever-pliant blogosphere, and now that she’s safely in the U.S., she drops the bombshell on us, “hey, you know what, maybe it didn’t happen the way I said it did.”
And YET the “v-word” still gets slung about out of force of habit. The media still pussyfoots about Nicolas, continuing to call her “Nicole” as if she’s still a personality worth protecting.
Everybody is busy blaming everybody else but Suzette Nicolas herself.
In fact, it seems like everybody’s bending over backwards to shield Nicolas from any responsibility in the matter! I don’t understand the need for her absolution: after all, it was her word against Smith’s that she was raped, her cause that the Left rallied about, her case that politicians used as a bargaining chip against a foreign power.
(The same foreign power, need I add, to whom Nicolas ran for protection after giving a legalistic middle finger to her former supporters!) Read more…
The Congressional Research Service, a think tank employed by the U.S. Congress, was supposed to make its findings public… but the Internet has beat them to it.
WikiLeaks has made all CRS’ reports public as a whopping 2.2GB download courtesy of PirateBay.
If the thought of downloading a 2.2GB zip file makes you throw up in your mouth a little, WikiLeaks also has the reports in a handy index format that allows you to download the reports as individual PDF files.
Here’s a short list of the files I found the most interesting - I’ve downloaded these and will be doing a lot of really wonky reading for the next few nights. (via Metafilter)
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