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Student Debt and the Crushing of the American Dream – NYTimes.com – Joseph Stiglitz
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, May 14, 2013Classic Colbert on Harvard Austerity Paper
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Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, April 26, 2013
Jon Stewart, Gun Control and Australia
Posted by Harry Sifton, Tuesday, April 23, 2013Sarah Palin Calls for Invasion of Czech Republic – The Daily Currant
Posted by Harry Sifton, Tuesday, April 23, 2013Hillary Speaks! (The Onion)
"How bad do I want it? Do I want it bad enough to waste years of my life—years I’ll never get back—meticulously crafting my public and private image to somehow appear relatable to a populace with 57 percent voter turnout? Do I want it bad enough to spend sleepless night after sleepless night dumbing down my deeply held political convictions into a pile of generic rhetorical slop that even the most dimwitted American can barely comprehend?"Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, April 12, 2013
Inky Tears – Frank Rich
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, April 11, 2013Chemical Disasters, Agent Orange, and GMOs: Monsanto’s Legacy Traced in Exposé | Common Dreams
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, April 6, 2013Markos Moulitsas: A guide to the conservative movement in one handy chart
Kos - some highlights ..Neocon on purpose of gov't: "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran"... Neocon on abortion: "I'll pretend to care"; Corporate Con on purpose of gov't: "Make me money, bail me out" ... Corporate Con on gays: "ixnay on the igotrybay"; Theocon on guns: "for shooting doctors"also paleocons, teabaggers and libertarians .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, March 8, 2013
Radical Reading: The Progressive Dr. Seuss
Peter Dreier in TruthOut ..What few Americans know is that, despite his popular image as a kindly cartoonist for kids, Dr. Seuss was also a moralist and political progressive whose views suffuse his stories .. His most popular children's books included parables about racism, anti-Semitism, the arms race, and the environment. His books consistently reveal his sympathy with the weak and the powerless and his fury against tyrants and oppressors. Many Dr. Seuss books are about the misuse of power - by despots, kings, or other rulers, including parents who arbitrarily wield authority. His books teach children to think about how to deal with an unfair world. Rather than telling them what to do, Geisel invites his young readers to consider what they should do when faced with injustice.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, February 28, 2013
Salon: How Paul Krugman broke a Wikipedia page on economics
Andrew Leonard in Salon ..There’s a lockdown on the Wikipedia page for Austrian economics and wouldn’t you know it, one or way or another, it all seems to be Paul Krugman’s fault. Broadly speaking, Austrian economics[] are characterized by an extreme distrust of state intervention in markets, a distaste for statistical modeling and a general confidence that markets, left to their own devices, will avoid booms and busts and nasty things like inflation. From a political perspective, Austrian economics tends to lurk to the right of even such conservative icons as Milton Friedman .. Two factions were repeatedly deleting and replacing a section of text that had to do with a description of a critique of Austrian economics made by Krugman .. it is amusing that Krugman, a man whose Nobel award [] was lambasted by one Austrian school acolyte as “the worst decision in the history of the prize”[] is indirectly responsible for a Wikipedia Austrian meltdown.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, February 21, 2013
The Onion: UPDATE – Taylor Swift Back Together With Ex-Boyfriend Christopher Dorner
Onion ..“Taylor was absolutely crushed when her beau barricaded himself in a remote cabin and committed suicide, but after some intense soul-searching, she realized she couldn’t live without him,” Popsugar.com blogger Kristen Stern said of the rekindled romance between the 23-year-old singer-songwriter and the deceased subject of the LAPD’s largest-ever manhunt. “Now the Swifner romance is back on! Fans caught the country cupcake canoodling with Christopher’s burnt corpse at a San Bernardino County coroner’s office this afternoon".. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, February 14, 2013
The Onion: 20,000 Sacrificed In Annual Blood Offering To Corporate America
The Onion (a classic) ..WILMINGTON, DE—The nation looked on in reverence Friday as 20,000 citizens were decapitated, dismembered, and burned alive in the name of Corporate America, continuing the age-old annual rite to ensure bounteous profits in the coming fiscal year. "Corporate America has always provided us with plenty," said High Priest James N. Cahill, who opened the ceremony by plunging the horn of a bull into a fair-haired child's abdomen and using the freshly spilled blood to write the current value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average upon sacred parchment. "JPMorgan Chase, General Electric, and all in the great pantheon of publicly traded entities will continue to watch over us so long as we appease them each year with human lives.".. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, November 24, 2012
Maureen Dowd: Reputation, Reputation, Reputation
Dowd on L'Affaire Petraeus ..[Petraeus'] fall started as Sophocles and turned sophomoric, a mind-boggling mélange of “From Here to Eternity,” “You’ve Got Mail,” “The Real Housewives of Centcom,” and “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.” It features toned arms, slinky outfits, a cat fight, titillating e-mails, a military more consumed with sex than violence, a plot with more inconceivable twists than “Homeland,” and a Twitter’s-delight lexicon: an “embedded” mistress named Broadwell, a biography called “All In,” an other-other woman of Middle East ancestry who was a “social liaison” to the military, a shirtless F.B.I. agent crushing on the losing-her-shirt-to-debt Tampa socialite, a pair of generals helping the socialite’s twin sister with a custody case, and lawyers and crisis-management experts linked to Monica Lewinsky, John Edwards and the ABC show “Scandal.”gonna try not to post about this anymore, though it may be hard - mab .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Wednesday, November 14, 2012
TBogg: Love in the House of Spy
TBogg at Firedoglake ..Married CIA Director General Saint David Howell Petraeus had an affair with a third-string Bond girl named Broadwell who goes all “hands off my adulterous love-machine with the mad oral skillz, bitch” to another woman who also has ladywood for a man in a uniform, prompting lady number two to give the bitchagrams to a friend in the FBI (who has incidentally has a boner on for lady number two) who in turn gives them to his superiors, and then subsequently refuses to butt out because he’s still hoping for some post-chivalry nookie, and then the whole thing blows up right after President Obama steals the election from Mitt Romney with the help of women, browns, blahs, gays, youngs, hip urbanites, Jews, Catholics and Nate Silvera good (and serious) source for all things Petraeus is Marcy Wheeler @ Empty Wheel blog - mab .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Tuesday, November 13, 2012
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Posted by Alexander Harper, Friday, November 9, 2012RAP NEWS 16: OBAMA v ROMNEY – the Final Presidential Debate
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, October 15, 2012
Tom Tomorrow: The return of Droney
new Tom T cartoon @ Daily KosDroney: "remember kids, eleven years ago we were attacked -- so we get to do whatever we want -- Forever"
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Sunday, October 7, 2012
Romney’s Sick Joke – NYTimes.com – Paul Krugman
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, October 5, 2012Memo to Mitt re the 47%. Shrimsley, FT
Posted by Alexander Harper, Thursday, September 20, 2012Markos Moulitsas: RNC nightcap (Clint Eastwood and nothing else mattered)
Kos ..I can honestly say that we've never laughed as hard at Daily Kos HQ as we did tonight. We didn't laugh as hard during Herman Cain's press conference where he led with the attorney providing the legalistic definition of sexual harassment. And that was really funny. Nor did we laugh as hard during Rick Perry's "oops" debate moment, when he forgot which third government agency he would cut .. None of those things could touch Clint Eastwood's RNC moment .. At first, people tried to work out why the old mumbly guy was hearing voices in his head. But it wasn't his head, it was, uh the chair, which wasn't much better. But wait, this could turn out genuinely funny. It was, after all, Clinton Fucking Eastwood! So for about three minutes, it was debatable how things might turn out. But then it was no longer debatable, as minute after interminable minute passed no coherent point or end in sight and people remembered that Clint Fucking Eastwood isn't supposed to be funny! I mean, actual quote: "Do you just - you know - I know - people were wondering - you don’t - handle that OK".. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, August 31, 2012
