"What the Great Recession has crystallized is a larger syndrome that Obama tapped into during the campaign. It’s the sinking sensation that the American game is rigged – that, as the president typically put it a month after his inauguration, the system is in hock to ‘the interests of powerful lobbyists or the wealthiest few’ who have ‘run Washington far too long.’ He promised to smite them."

Frank Rich: "Is Obama Punking Us?"

But he hasn’t.

You’ve got to read Matt Taibbi’s article on health care in the new "Rolling Stone", the one with the Beatles on the cover.  That’s how out of touch Wenner’s magazine is, they’ve got the story of the MOMENT, but rather than post it online immediately, something even the "New York Times" does, allowing you to read Sunday content before the weekend, Jann makes you go out and buy the magazine, so few are informed.  Taibbi’s article is depressing.  It illustrates how the system has broken down, how Washington, D.C. is dysfunctional, beholden not only to special interests, but their paid for representatives, looking to keep their power.  Our country has lost its compassion.  Fuck change, fuck the future if I have to sacrifice one little bit.

In the old days, prior to the "Reagan Revolution", the gap between the rich and the poor was navigable, it was not that wide.  A middle class citizen (remember the middle class?) could save up and live the life of a rich person, if only for a weekend.  You could afford the premium hotel, the best restaurant.  Now there’s a tier of resorts and eateries that exclude just about everybody, except for the one-tenth of one percent who are insanely rich, who have ALL the money.  Meanwhile, if they’re not hiding in gated communities, behind layers of security, these well-to-do folk tell us we too can have what they’ve got, if we just put our nose to the grindstone and LOWER TAXES!

Do you know that hedge funds get taxed at capital gains rates even though the income is GUARANTEED?  In a country where you’ve got protesters brandishing placards telling elected representatives to keep government out of their Medicare, does it surprise you that the hoi polloi are ignorant where the real dollars are?

It’s kind of like the music business.  Where Ticketmaster is the enemy, not Jon Bon Jovi.  Obfuscation knows no limits.  Duplicity reigns.  Like with this JK Wedding Dance Video.  I feel especially bad, because even I was duped!  Along with the "Wall Street Journal" and the rest of major media.

One thing I love about the Web is its ability to police the fucks who’ve been raping and manipulating our country, like Sony Music.  If you think the shenanigans are history, have fallen by the wayside since the elimination of Tommy Mottola, you’ve got another thing coming.

It appears the entire viral effect of the JK Wedding Dance Video was manufactured.  There was no viral effect.  It was a manipulation to rehabilitate Chris Brown’s career.

Read this post:

Part 1

Part 2

It’s not as sexy as a music video, not as cool as Lady GaGa’s latest outfit, it’s just the reasoned work of someone who actually got an education, someone with a brain.  Then again, who cares if the guy went to MIT, I’ve come from the school of hard knocks!

Well, you can’t fake your way into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and you can’t fake your way through there either.  You’ve got to be smart.  But oh yeah, smart is for pussies.  We like ’em uneducated and dumb.

Spread this story far and wide.  We’re on a crusade to eliminate this kind of bullshit in the music business.  We want the acts to rule, not manipulative companies.  Sure, Sony won Round 1, but we’ve got to be sure they’re eliminated from the ring before the final bell.