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
The World Food Program estimated in March that a quarter of the country’s 24 million inhabitants needed food aid and that a third of children were chronically malnourished.
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
and blame Mubarak for supporting Obama. Sharia in Oklahoma, Abdel Moneim Said: I must admit I was surprised by news from Oklahoma that a US federal appeals court upheld a state court ruling in Case 755 (Awad v Ziriax) reversing … Continue reading
To re-state the theme of an earlier post written during the previous Newtening, the further Gingrich goes, the more the “massive external event” must be considered to have already undermined the position to which he ascends. He already represents crisis within the Republican Party. Continue reading
maybe we’re luckier than we deserve to be, or deserving because at least sufficiently aware to recognize the American conservative movement as catastrophe enough already. Continue reading
Even partisan primaries must eventually, if only intermittently, if only for a moment, re-capitulate the state as a whole. 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:
