February 2012
“One out of every 10 Wall Street employees is likely a clinical psychopath,...”
– One Out Of Every Ten Wall Street Employees Is A Psychopath, Say Researchers
“People from wealthy, upper classes are more likely than poorer folks to break...”
– Upper class people more likely to cheat: study
“The modern GOP—the party of Nixon, Reagan, and both Bushes—is staring down its...”
– Why 2012 Is the Republicans Last Chance — New York Magazine
“After spending much of the week in Michigan defending his opposition to the 2008...”
– Mitt Romney: ‘I Have Some Friends Who Are NASCAR Team Owners’
“The standard view that knowing more science, or being better at mathematical...”
– The ugly delusions of the educated conservative - AlterNet - Salon.com
“The source of women’s underrepresentation at the Oscars is not exactly a...”
– The Oscars’ woman problem - Oscars - Salon.com
“None — zero — of the films in the best picture, best director, best adapted or...”
– The Oscars’ woman problem - Oscars - Salon.com
How to make Occupy catch on - The 99 Percent Plan... →
Nice piece of history worth reading in its entirety
“Throughout this entire process, the spectacle of these clowns thrashing each...”
– Arizona Debate: Conservative Chickens Come Home to Roost | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
Rick Santorum Shining a Much-Needed Light On... →
One of the interesting things about the rise of Rick Santorum is that it’s giving a lot of people their first up-close-and-personal look at some of the more — what to call them? — unorthodox beliefs that animate American movement conservatives. They really do believe that we liberals support prenatal testing because it’s a good way of ensuring that Down’s Syndrome kids are all aborted. They...
Activate the Mechanism!: Dolphins are 'people' say... →
abaldwin360:
Dolphins deserve to be treated as non-human “persons” whose rights to life and liberty should be respected, scientists meeting in Canada have been told.
A small group of experts in philosophy, conservation and dolphin behaviour were canvassing support for a “Declaration of Rights for…
“So there is no savior. And let us please be clear on why there is no savior....”
– Michael Tomasky - There Will Be No Saviors for the GOP in 2012/The Daily Beast
h/t digby
(via randomactsofchaos)
“We might ask why the fully-financialized Status Quo of financial and political...”
– Guest Post: When Debt Is More Important Than People, The System Is Evil | ZeroHedge
“Ethics has no place in the Empire of Debt. The financialized Status Quo is...”
– Guest Post: When Debt Is More Important Than People, The System Is Evil | ZeroHedge
When Debt Is More Important Than People, The... →
“Debts between either poor people or rich people, that they have with each other,...”
– Boston Review — David V. Johnson: What We Owe to Each Other (David Graeber, Debt)
“Capitalism is just a bad way of organizing communism.”
– Boston Review — David V. Johnson: What We Owe to Each Other (David Graeber, Debt)
“The word conservative has changed in contemporary American English; now it means...”
– Boston Review — David V. Johnson: What We Owe to Each Other (David Graeber, Debt)
“The instinct of the people now in power is to figure out how to change things as...”
– Boston Review — David V. Johnson: What We Owe to Each Other (David Graeber, Debt)
What we’ve seen over the last 30 years is a war on the human imagination. That’s the other starting point for this book—that in 2008 we had this crash, and all these assumptions we’ve been told we’ve had to accept for 30 years came crashing to the ground along with the market. One of them is the assumption that markets are actually self-sustaining. Obviously not true. Another one was that the...
““Your latest movie Midnight in Paris is nominated for several Oscars. How...”
– Woody Allen, Exclusive Interview: “My wife thinks that I have no friends – and maybe she’s right” | OUT OF ORDER Magazine
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Willie Nelson and 300,000 Other Activists Sue... →
occupyonline:
Little did Willie Nelson know when he recorded “Crazy” years ago just how crazy it would become for our cherished family farmers in America. Nelson, President of Farm Aid, has recently called for the national Occupy movement to declare an “Occupy the Food System” action.
Nelson states, “Corporate control of our food system has led to the loss of millions of family farmers,...
“Once upon a time, way back in the stone ages, when Noam Chomsky was first...”
– Another March to War? | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
“You can just feel it: many of the same newspapers and TV stations we saw leading...”
– Another March to War? | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
“I was never a big TV fan, and I feel a bit betrayed by the Internet in recent...”
– Keeping Up with the Republican Primaries - Justin Erik Halldór Smith
“We have what in places like Turkey is lucidly described as a ‘deep...”
– Keeping Up with the Republican Primaries - Justin Erik Halldór Smith
I feel this way in my rational moments. But I’m not gonna lie. Sometimes, not so much.
Barack Obama Can’t Stop Making Stupid Sexist Jokes... →
“There are consequences to having this style of discourse dominate how...”
– Against TED – The New Inquiry
“TED attempts to present itself as fresh, cutting edge, and outside the box but...”
– Against TED – The New Inquiry
“With the Facebook IPO around the corner, we are all well aware of the big...”
– Against TED – The New Inquiry
“The narrative of class transcendence held up the superstructure of free market...”
– Rootless & Ruthless – The New Inquiry
“The cracks in capitalism are getting wider, and if we are smart enough and brave...”
– Rootless & Ruthless – The New Inquiry
“Radical politics used to include housing cooperatives, squatted estates,...”
– Rootless & Ruthless – The New Inquiry
“Precarity is opportunity. Fuck social mobility. Fuck security. Fuck money. Fuck...”
– Rootless & Ruthless – The New Inquiry
“Every shy person thus nourishes two contradictory dreams: that of an immediate...”
– Guernica / The Timeless Art
“The philosopher of science, Dominique Lecourt, has coined a nice neologism,...”
– Guernica / The Timeless Art
“There is nothing more beautiful than the stubbornness of two people who have...”
– Guernica / The Timeless Art
“Seduction, like grace in Calvinism, is a sorting machine. In the most common...”
– Guernica / The Timeless Art
