October 2010
September 2010
“Vast forests have already been sacrificed to the public debate about the Tea...”
– Tea & Crackers | Rolling Stone Politics
“A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against...”
– Tea & Crackers | Rolling Stone Politics
WatchWatsonMedia presents Mark Blyth on Austerity (by The Global Conversation)
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“I think the reason why people are so angry at Democrats and disenchanted with...”
– White House scorecard: MSNBC up, bloggers down - Keach Hagey - POLITICO.com
And, characterizing blogger complaints about an erosion of civil liberties that even the Bush Administration didn’t go after as “whining” is really not a good way to fire people up to vote.
(via shorterexcerpts)
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Obama's secret assassination program against US... →
jonathan-cunningham:
ilqusionment:
jonathan-cunningham:
At this point, I didn’t believe it was possible, but the Obama administration has just reached an all-new low in its abysmal civil liberties record. In response to the lawsuit filed by Anwar Awlaki’s father asking a court to enjoin the President from assassinating his son, a U.S. citizen, without any due process, the administration...
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“That concept — that the U.S. Government should not be monitoring, surveilling...”
– Glenn Greenwald (via azspot)
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Robert Reich: The President's Backyard Discussion... →
robertreich:
President Obama continues his economic tour today (Wednesday) with stops in Des Moines, Iowa, and Richmond, Va. In Des Moines he hosts a backyard discussion on the challenges currently facing the middle class with approximately 70 neighbors from the area, according to the White House. Here’s an…
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“…he allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not...”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “Love In The Time Of Cholera” (p.165)
“Most thoughts are memories. And memories deceive….”
– from the movie I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
U.S. Wants to Make It Easier to Wiretap the... →
Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone.
Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications — including encrypted e-mail...
“What can be done about mass unemployment? All the wise heads agree: there are no...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Structure of Excuses - NYTimes.com
“We, the people, are furious (according to the mainstream media); we decry...”
– A Simple Desultory Philippic
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“Men do not learn very much from the lessons of history. And that is the most...”
– Aldous Huxley
Celebrities and the people who follow them have... →
A study conducted at Northwestern University determined that celebrities like Ashton Kutcher with millions of Twitter followers are mostly ignored on the social media site, resulting in very little if any influence.
When the researchers applied their mathematical algorithm to the countless tweets that appear on Twitter each day, they found that experts in certain fields were much more likely to...
“Here’s a fact that even drug policy reform advocates can acknowledge:...”
– What the pot legalization campaign really threatens - Drugs - Salon.com
“Conservatives say that to do anything other than extending tax cuts to everyone...”
– Economic View - Why the Rich Don’t Need a Tax-Cut Extension - NYTimes.com
“With the exception of the House minority leader, John Boehner, the Republican...”
– Economic View - Why the Rich Don’t Need a Tax-Cut Extension - NYTimes.com
“WANT to give affluent households a present worth $700 billion over the next...”
– Economic View - Why the Rich Don’t Need a Tax-Cut Extension - NYTimes.com
“And among the undeniably rich, a belligerent sense of entitlement has taken...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - The Angry Rich and Taxes - NYTimes.com
“Anger is sweeping America. True, this white-hot rage is a minority phenomenon,...”
– Paul Krugman - The Angry Rich and Taxes - NYTimes.com
“Stewart’s examples of right-wing rhetorical excesses (Obama is a socialist who...”
– Glenn Greenwald should make for a fun football for Stewart and Colbert to toss around this week (via soupsoup)
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“Do you realize that people don’t know how to read Kafka simply because they want...”
– Milan Kundera (via blogut) (via lethebashar) (via ephemerals)
“We “plural realists”–Nietzsche, Hubert Dreyfus (who coined the term), and...”
– Reconsidering Nietzsche–Six Questions for Julian Young—By Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine)
“Since the human essence is the will to live–or for Nietzsche, the “will to...”
– Reconsidering Nietzsche–Six Questions for Julian Young—By Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine)
“Music … frees me from myself, it sobers me up from myself, as though I survey...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, quoted in Reconsidering Nietzsche–Six Questions for Julian Young—By Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine)
“Fox News has made no secret of their distaste for Colbert, and especially Jon...”
– New Survey Reveals Why Jon Stewart is the Biggest Long Term Threat to Fox News
“Fox News has been able to hold its audience share because Republicans have been...”
– New Survey Reveals Why Jon Stewart is the Biggest Long Term Threat to Fox News
Lady Gaga and the death of sex
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tobia:
An erotic breaker of taboos or an asexual copycat? Camille Paglia, America’s foremost cultural critic, demolishes an icon.
Lady Gaga is the first major star of the digital age. Since her rise, she has remained almost continually on tour. Hence, she is a moving target who has escaped serious scrutiny. She is often pictured tottering down the street in some outlandish...
“The Rahm Emanuel strategy was to cut deals with power brokers in Washington and...”
– Why Rahm Emanuel’s Political Calculations Were 100% Wrong
While I agree with the author I have to point out that, while it may have been Emanuel’s strategy, it was Obama’s decision to implement it and to stick with it even as it was clear to everyone else that it was a failure. The buck stops with...
“Getting it “right” is putting people to work, in a practical and in a profound...”
– 3quarksdaily
“No situation in which 25 million people are unemployed is tolerable, and it...”
– Labor Day: Put America Back to Work
“Few would argue that defending liberal principles serves Obama’s...”
– The president refuses to stand up for immigration, gay rights, and religious freedom. - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine
“How dismal that America’s first black president will be remembered as...”
– The president refuses to stand up for immigration, gay rights, and religious freedom. - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine
“Obama has had numerous occasions to assert leadership on values issues this...”
– The president refuses to stand up for immigration, gay rights, and religious freedom. - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine
“Barack Obama’s redecoration of the Oval Office includes a nice personal...”
– The president refuses to stand up for immigration, gay rights, and religious freedom. - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine
“We can’t afford to forget now that the single biggest legacy of the Iraq war at...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Freedom’s Just Another Word - NYTimes.com
“It’s a mystery why a candidate so attuned to the nation’s pulse, most especially...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Freedom’s Just Another Word - NYTimes.com
“As a candidate, Obama was in a position to tell the truth about Iraq, and he...”
– Interesting Times: A Date That Will Live in Oblivion : The New Yorker
“And yet, to hear the President tell it, Iraq is on the right path and in a...”
– Interesting Times: A Date That Will Live in Oblivion : The New Yorker
“It’s hard to have an honest emotional response or even know what one feels....”
– Interesting Times: A Date That Will Live in Oblivion : The New Yorker
“What President Obama called the end of the combat mission in Iraq is a...”
– Interesting Times: A Date That Will Live in Oblivion : The New Yorker