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forward slash dissonance pod for your free audiobook download. This is something

that I put together in response to the media response of the school shooting

this week in Connecticut. Barrier it on the back page behind the ads for

shitty cars and after the wedding announcements. Journalistic huxesterism to

glorify monsters, a carefully cultivated breeding program to turn out

disaster as if hate and glory and depravity were an endangered species. We

dressed the set like a porno, getting the blue and red light flickering off

congealed pools, tight closeups of wet sloppy faces and fluttering hands, always

prepared for that money shock. A broken body is good but it doesn't even

better. Horror reduced to token plot lines, pale shaky excuses for the next set

of images, raw and real, amateurs and professionals get their turn. Water cooler

pundits salivating for a shot of skin, another savaging, public prolonged and

pointless. But airtime sells like hotcakes in the bodies pile up and we bring our

hands, wipe the sweat from brows and when the last overwrought tone thunders

through studio speakers and we are done, collapsed, spent, exhausted. We'll shake

empty heads, suddenly nervous as a maiden, and wonder how this could have

happened again.

Be advised that this show is not for children, the faint of heart or the easily

offended. The explicit tag is there for a reason.

This is cognitive dissonance. Every episode we blast anyone gets in our way. We bring critical

thinking, skepticism and irreverence to any topic that makes the news, makes it big

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