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Friday, May 14, 2010

Life Friday Afternoon Reading

Posted by Dominic Holden on Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:57 PM

The Onion has a lovely piece titled "Exhausted Noam Chomsky Just Going To Try And Enjoy The Day For Once." Enjoy:

Sitting down to a nice oatmeal breakfast, Chomsky picked up a copy of Time, a deceitful, pro-corporate publication that he said would normally infuriate him.

"Yes, this magazine may be nothing more than a subtle media tool intended to obfuscate the government's violent agenda with comforting bromides, but I'm not going to let that get under my skin," Chomsky said. "I mean, why should I? It's absolutely beautiful outside. I should just go and enjoy myself and not think about any of this stuff."

Added Chomsky, glancing back over at the periodical, "Even if it is just another way in which individuals are methodically fed untruths that slowly shape their perceptions of reality, dulling their ability to challenge and defy a government bent on carrying out its own selfish and destructive—no, no Noam, not today, none of that today."

The entire thing is hilarious. (Via @xaotica)

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This was just what I needed this afternoon.

Thanks Dominic.

Posted by jasonzenobia

on May 14, 2010 at 4:38 PM

Brilliant.

Posted by e.strange

on May 14, 2010 at 5:05 PM

Wonderful piece. But whenever I see a link to the Onion here it re-blows my mind that Tim Keck founded it, too, and that the Stranger, no matter how lovely in its way, may for him always be just the Golden Palace to the Onion's Golden Girls; the Animaniacs to the Onion's true "What's Up, Doc?"ness; the Winger to the Onion's Motorhead.

Posted by gloomy gus on May 14, 2010 at 5:16 PM