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"The journalists who work for big media conglomerates and who can claim to be untrammeled in their reportage overlook the fact that they are free to say what they like because their bosses like what they say."

--Michael Parenti, Superpatriotism

"One day in July 1965, [Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Arthur] Sylvester told American journalists that they had a patriotic duty to disseminate only information that made the United States look good. When one of the newsmen exclaimed[,] 'Surely, Arthur, you don't expect the American press to be handmaidens of government,' Sylvester replied, 'That's exactly what I expect,' adding: 'Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you're stupid. Did you hear that?--stupid.'"

--William Blum, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II

"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media."

--Former CIA Director William Colby

About Me

I am a real person. Any similarities to fictional characters are purely coincidental.

Here are some really interesting facts about me:

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Sex: male
Height: 6'
Waist Line: 34" (varies slightly by season)
Sexual Orientation: heterosexual
Shoe Size: 43 European
Typing Speed: 40 words per minute
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Rising Sign: Gemini
Moon Sign: Scorpio
Chinese Zodiac Sign: Dragon
KTS-II Personality Type: INTJ
Marital Status: single
Number of Dependents, Including Self: 1
Diseases: pica (just kidding)
Eye Color: greenish brown
Hair Color: black
Skin Type: normal to oily

Additional Notes and Comments: My ethnic background is Korean and Anglo-American. My diet is vegetarian, but I eat dinosaur meat whenever it's offered to me (as long as it's prepared well). My dream is to someday have the world's oddest profession.

I am the creator of the azprogressives community and co-moderate it with gothangel7. I also co-moderate tucson, tucsonbrunch, and dandys_rule_ok. I often refer to the friends I know from tucsonbrunch as "brunchniks."

Even though a lot of my posts are political, don't take anything I write too seriously. Laughter is good medicine. Since we don't have universal health care here, you should take what you can get.

I do not have any extra digits on my hands or feet, even though I have polydactyly and and hexadactylism in my LiveJournal interests. I have those interests because of my late father's eccentricity, and because of a conversation I once had with butternutsquash, a friend and former roommate.

Acknowledgments: Although most of the puns and other wordplay herein are products of my own mind, the title of my friends page, DotComrades, was borrowed from Vijay Prashad.

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If you friend me and decide you are not completely satisfied, simply unfriend me at any time for a full refund! Seriously, though, if that's what you want to do, I won't take it personally. It's just LiveJournal after all. Don't feel obligated to explain yourself if you either friend or un-friend me. I generally add back anyone who wants to add me to their friends list. Most of my LiveJournal friends don't update very often (and some, I think, have abandoned LiveJournal), so I typically don't mind adding more people to my friends page.

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