American links
The funniest sentence I have read in a while:
Since our world is currently under the iron grip of a consortium that includes 4chan and The Onion’s editorial board, the Nobel Peace Prize was just accepted by a man currently escalating a land war in Asia.
A workshop on government openness that is closed to public.
Explore the fabulous ruins of Detroit, a city that has lost half its population since the 1950s and used to have the highest median household income in the US (it now comes 66th out of 68). Visually. And also. The last is particularly powerful.
Do not donate any food with transfat to homeless shelters in New York, for the law requires them to throw it away.
A $100,000 Congressional earmark for a library in Jamestown South Carolina became $100,000 for Jamestown California which does not have a library.
About the politics of ressentiment:
Conservatism is a political philosophy; the farce currently performing under that marquee is an inferiority complex in political philosophy drag.
Further elaborated:
What we’re seeing is the natural sentiment of people who think of themselves as quintessentially American looking at an American popular and public culture that presents them as marginal.
The Confederacy was not a good example of small government.
FDR in 1934, Bill Clinton in 1998 and Dubya in 2002 were the only times the Administration’s Party gained in both Houses of Congress in a midterm election.
Nice discussion of the role of corporations in US politics and this Administration in particular.
Suggesting there is a lot of misogyny on the American left. Further discussion here.
Senator Joe Lieberman is not cooperating on health care reform, so he’s stupid, wicked and his being a Jew matters. The polling numbers, of course, have nothing to do with it (and presumably show that a majority of the American public is wicked, stupid, etc).
Sarah Palin is more respected by the American public than Al Gore.
President Obama’s poll numbers continue to slide. So that Gov. Palin’s approval rating and his are very close.
Since our world is currently under the iron grip of a consortium that includes 4chan and The Onion’s editorial board, the Nobel Peace Prize was just accepted by a man currently escalating a land war in Asia.
A workshop on government openness that is closed to public.
Explore the fabulous ruins of Detroit, a city that has lost half its population since the 1950s and used to have the highest median household income in the US (it now comes 66th out of 68). Visually. And also. The last is particularly powerful.
Do not donate any food with transfat to homeless shelters in New York, for the law requires them to throw it away.
A $100,000 Congressional earmark for a library in Jamestown South Carolina became $100,000 for Jamestown California which does not have a library.
About the politics of ressentiment:
Conservatism is a political philosophy; the farce currently performing under that marquee is an inferiority complex in political philosophy drag.
Further elaborated:
What we’re seeing is the natural sentiment of people who think of themselves as quintessentially American looking at an American popular and public culture that presents them as marginal.
The Confederacy was not a good example of small government.
FDR in 1934, Bill Clinton in 1998 and Dubya in 2002 were the only times the Administration’s Party gained in both Houses of Congress in a midterm election.
Nice discussion of the role of corporations in US politics and this Administration in particular.
Suggesting there is a lot of misogyny on the American left. Further discussion here.
Senator Joe Lieberman is not cooperating on health care reform, so he’s stupid, wicked and his being a Jew matters. The polling numbers, of course, have nothing to do with it (and presumably show that a majority of the American public is wicked, stupid, etc).
Sarah Palin is more respected by the American public than Al Gore.
President Obama’s poll numbers continue to slide. So that Gov. Palin’s approval rating and his are very close.