all your base are belong to us
Every morning, I read a dozen or so sources of news: Strike the Root, the Daily Bail, Zero Hedge, and so on. (I read the Huffington Post first, because it makes me laugh out loud as my coffee is brewing.) I also go out to the driveway and get a newspaper, but I wait till [...]
we thought that punching ourselves in the face would feel good, but it hurt, so we have to, uh, punch ourselves in the face. so we can feel good.
Progressive strategizerer Mike Lux is a gift to humanity, and I thank his mother and father for getting horizontal. Here comes a long paragraph from deep inside his argument, but I promise you’ll be glad you read every word of it, because oh my god watch where it starts and where it ends:
Which brings me [...]
it’s empty inside, but you can always count on it to fire right up when you turn the key
My two-year-old daughter has an Elmo doll that says “Elmo loves you” when you squeeze its belly.
So: Michael O’Hanlon.
In an op-ed piece in USA Today on Wednesday, O’Hanlon argued that Barack Obama couldn’t fire Stanley McChrystal “as we enter into perhaps the most crucial six months of the entire war.” The Friedman Unit has been [...]
wave to the hookah-smoking caterpillar
Katrina vanden Heuvel has figured out that Obama only seems to be a weak leader and a morally compromised servant of corporate interests:
At the same time, progressives have come to a realization. What we see, some 500 days into the Obama administration, is a president obstructed by a partisan Republican opposition, powerful entrenched corporate interests, [...]
“uniforms…bespoke a certain egalitarianism”"
Tony Judt longs for the days of properly enforced uniformity.
retail manager resigns after admitting that stores try to make money
The president of Germany resigned in shame after saying, in a speech delivered in Afghanistan, that his country was engaged in military action there in the service of its national economic interests.
It’s a scandal to openly say things that are merely and prosaically true in the very most obvious sense. The pageantry of the state [...]