There’s a great article on the Tea Party movement and then a great criticism of the article.
Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
A “narrative of impending tyranny”
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010An incredible combination
Monday, January 25th, 2010Filibustering is unconstitutional?
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010A Thinkin’ Man
Saturday, December 19th, 2009Why Don’t We Value Teachers? – GOOD Blog – GOOD
A new piece by Arne Duncan, the United States Education Secretary, starts out fairly predictably: He praises the fine, difficult work teachers do, repeats the sentiment that they “deserve” better pay, top-notch training and more respect, and so on. … Then the piece gets interesting. He proposes that part of the problem is that the whole system is stuck in the “factory model of the industrial age.
Nice.
Are you fucking kidding me?
Friday, October 2nd, 2009Secure Flight Comes to Southwest Airlines, Six Years Later | Threat Level | Wired.com
Passengers who have no identification, lost it or prefer not to show it may still be able to fly after getting extra screening, but they have to be nice to airport screeners or else they won’t be allowed through the metal detectors, according to TSA policy.
This is how we determine security screening, whether you stroke some TSA drone’s ego or not?
Smile!
Sunday, September 27th, 2009The Obamas took a bunch of official portraits with other dignitaries at the UN and BO never changes!
On Message
Monday, September 21st, 2009
The TV Watch – For President, Five Programs, One Message – NYTimes.com
Wow. As the article says, talk about sticking to one message!
Banks Today
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009The London Review of Books has a very good article, “It’s Finished,” on the current state of major banks and the bailouts:
Nobody in power wants to do that [acknowledge many banks are insolvent and nationalize them or sell-off their assets]. Nobody with power in the banking system, and nobody with power in government. Both the British and the American plans to help the banks are very, very, very expensive variations on the theme of sticking their fingers in their ears and loudly singing ‘La la la, I’m not listening.’
Stasi Art Critcism
Sunday, April 19th, 2009I just read a fascinating story about a photography book of Berlin than so enraged the Stasi that they went through page by page writing up snarky criticisms.
