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
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
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
It is, of course, a crucifixion. Continue reading
It’s just a movie poster, for a movie I don’t recall anyone ever having had much to say about, but the image always stuck in my mind, and today it seems especially sad and expressive. The concept of the movie … Continue reading
He combines a good shot with excellent court awareness and ball skills, and his more Nash than Paul style meshes with D’Antoni’s offense. He’s not yet really been tested, but he’s clearly earned the right to a real test beyond whatever inevitable and likely impending drop-off in his performance and in attention. Continue reading
No one discussing the notion of “Israel First,” as no one once upon a time discussing the mirror notion of “America First,” can fully comprehend the paradox embedded in the concept except materially, except in the actualization of their ignorance – their, your, my, our ignorance – via politics. Continue reading
Avoiding climate catastrophe requires of democratic capitalism that it embrace its own absolute contradiction – catastrophically. Continue reading
: http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2012/02/21/is-john-carter-going-to-be-a-250-million-flop/
: Romney stands for little of significance, and ultimately that comes through, despite his resources
: Romney stands for everything that made Utah great and the place that, unique among all the world except for the Dominican Republic, is concerned with helping Ann Frank now, when she really needs it.
Obama and his radical Islamist Muslim Brotherhood campaign staff sure aren't offering to baptize Ann.
: That's so far down the objections to the Don Draper wannabe that it's not worth noting
: miggs, beloved of Allah, have you hugged a mohel today?
Who's this Donnie the draper?
: Don Draper, (actually not his real name) is the smooth talking
Organization Man of Mad Men,
miguel cervantes: fuster: miguel cervantes:
CK MacLeod: CK MacLeod: CK MacLeod:
Scott Miller: fuster:
