Bombs Bursting in Air

Super Bowl season is like the holidays — a celebration shared by people more accustomed to arguing than sitting down together. As one of the few transpartisan, mass media events left to our tribal culture, the biggest TV night of the year can’t help but channel the political tensions most of us endure all year long.--PC

The billionaire football owners (and Trump) are different than you and me, so what they think is good for their sport and the nation is different as well.

If you're like me, you'll watch the Super Bowl with an edge of embarrassment--for the commoners of the nation, and for the billionaires who are stupid enough to think that anyone other than the "deplorables" find their shit show entertaining, or otherwise of useful merit. You see, what they're selling is perpetual war, and if we know anything about war it is that it has no intrinsic value other than to stack up the dead. Among the dead will be innocent foreigners and delusional and jingoistic young Americans who trade in their shift at McDonald's for a life of heroic-global adventure and the opportunity to "kill, kill, kill" bad guys wherever they may live, usually in a ghetto someplace far, far away.

But don't dwell on it too much or you'll run the risk of missing an ordinary football game hyped to the ceiling with false meaning.

Pass the chips, please.

Your weekend reading.


TS