Not a fair trade
I think it was Hegel who summed it up best when he told David Frost Well, I don’t really think that the end can be assessed as of itself as being the end because what does the end feel … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Fools, Their Money, and Citizens More and More United
the post-CU world is a world in which the 0.0001% are financing a remarkably effective satire undermining themselves and their chosen spokespeople: Diminishing returns as morality play. Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Citizens United, Foster Friess, Republican Party, Sheldon Adelson
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Even if it ain’t brokered, you still can’t fix it
The real nightmare is already ongoing, and everyone in the family knows it: of a party splintering, each main ideological element of the Reagan Era coalition exposed both as insufficient on its own terms and as unable to discover a compelling rationale for uniting with its customary allies. Continue reading
Moruga Scorpion scales the Scoville
His name is nobody
The economic liberal whose personality is another “private equity” is the human exponent of the universal equivalent, money, and approximates its mode of operation in his chameleonlike adaptability. Yesterday he was a social liberal, today he’s a social conservative. He doesn’t “really” care. He isn’t “really” anyone, at least as far as we’re concerned. And that’s who he is for political purposes – same as what he comes across as – no one in particular. Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Religion
Tagged free market capitalism, Liberalism, Mitt Romney, social conservatism, social liberalism
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Fiddle a bout
there’s a degenerative condition termed “fiddler’s elbow” within a segment of the medical profession that requires sufferers to follow a patterned exercise program. from a seated position, they flex the elbow slowly and regularly raising a small weighted object to slightly … Continue reading
