What happened to February?
The ice rink opened at 11 am February 16. When it closed at 5 pm, it closed for the season. Perhaps the thinking is that trying to keep it open is a lost cause, even though this is the coldest February I've seen. Some decision has to be made on the rink. Exactly what time of the day is it possible to have it open? What is the purpose of the rink? There really isn't enough time in the day to accommodate all the categories of customers. The general public gets the shaft. It gets to skate after the rink has been turned into a snow cone. Oh well, maybe I'll rant about it next season. Thanksgiving is around the corner!
Obama ... bears only a negative and reactionary relationship to the great political questions of his day. His candidacy for the presidency aimed to absorb and defuse widespread hostility toward the war in Iraq and the Bush administration, while permitting the American ruling elite to make certain tactical adjustments in its policies. The real aims of Obama's presidency are to intensify imperialist war in Central Asia and force the working class to pay for the massive economic crisis.
--Tom Eley and David Walsh
One would think that politicians would be willing to do the math and realize that debts that can’t be paid, won’t be. But the debts are being kept on the books, continuing to extract interest to pay the creditors that have made the bad loans. The resulting debt deflation threatens to keep the economy in depression until a radical shift in policy occurs--a shift to save the “real” economy, not just the financial sector and the wealthiest 10 per cent of American families.
--Michael Hudson
Alexandra Pelosi came off terribly in her Salon interview. She encountered a fundamentally broken electorate but felt the need to "cover" for them, in part because I think she felt guilty about seeming like an "angry blogger" and in part because all of her time with the Republican hardliners gave her a bit of Stockholm Syndrome.
No one wants to admit that nice old lady is crazy and detached from reality. There's a temptation to look for the redeeming features of that screaming angry right-winger and believing that his unhingement is reflective of some kind of heartland authenticity. Few are willing to accept the reality that the political system is broken and encourages this lunacy.
--Tyro (from comments to this)
The national liberation movements in the Global South had been effectively co-opted with legitimating (and completely fraudulent) import substitution strategies as cover for underdeveloped nations’ elites repressing their local populations in exchange for higher rents for their resources and cheap labor. While neither the right nor the left was willing to see it at the time, developmental modernization was running into the physical limits of so-called growth (the fraud within the aforementioned fraud). When the promises of modernization failed to materialize for the peripheries and most of the semi-peripheries, and all that was left in the ruins were alienated masses, whose very spirituality was assaulted in the name of “progress,” co-opted secular nationalism, militarized socialism and western capitalism were all implicated, and only the latter stood to manage the aftermath.
--Stan Goff
Wendy and Lucy by Kelly Reichardt (Old Joy, 2006) is an honest picture of American life--in other words, a very rare occurrence in contemporary cinema.
--Joanne Laurier
Obama ... bears only a negative and reactionary relationship to the great political questions of his day. His candidacy for the presidency aimed to absorb and defuse widespread hostility toward the war in Iraq and the Bush administration, while permitting the American ruling elite to make certain tactical adjustments in its policies. The real aims of Obama's presidency are to intensify imperialist war in Central Asia and force the working class to pay for the massive economic crisis.
--Tom Eley and David Walsh
One would think that politicians would be willing to do the math and realize that debts that can’t be paid, won’t be. But the debts are being kept on the books, continuing to extract interest to pay the creditors that have made the bad loans. The resulting debt deflation threatens to keep the economy in depression until a radical shift in policy occurs--a shift to save the “real” economy, not just the financial sector and the wealthiest 10 per cent of American families.
--Michael Hudson
Alexandra Pelosi came off terribly in her Salon interview. She encountered a fundamentally broken electorate but felt the need to "cover" for them, in part because I think she felt guilty about seeming like an "angry blogger" and in part because all of her time with the Republican hardliners gave her a bit of Stockholm Syndrome.
No one wants to admit that nice old lady is crazy and detached from reality. There's a temptation to look for the redeeming features of that screaming angry right-winger and believing that his unhingement is reflective of some kind of heartland authenticity. Few are willing to accept the reality that the political system is broken and encourages this lunacy.
--Tyro (from comments to this)
The national liberation movements in the Global South had been effectively co-opted with legitimating (and completely fraudulent) import substitution strategies as cover for underdeveloped nations’ elites repressing their local populations in exchange for higher rents for their resources and cheap labor. While neither the right nor the left was willing to see it at the time, developmental modernization was running into the physical limits of so-called growth (the fraud within the aforementioned fraud). When the promises of modernization failed to materialize for the peripheries and most of the semi-peripheries, and all that was left in the ruins were alienated masses, whose very spirituality was assaulted in the name of “progress,” co-opted secular nationalism, militarized socialism and western capitalism were all implicated, and only the latter stood to manage the aftermath.
--Stan Goff
Wendy and Lucy by Kelly Reichardt (Old Joy, 2006) is an honest picture of American life--in other words, a very rare occurrence in contemporary cinema.
--Joanne Laurier