One of the more vivid images from the Phillipine "People Power Revolution" which brought down the dictator Marcos and was supposed to bring democracy, representation, peace, justice, and economic development to the Phillipines forever was Imelda Marcos' shoe closet which had an unimaginable number of bespoke shoes in it, all of them of course ( Read more... )

My kid says: "You have to admit that the police running out of supplies to combat protests against government cutbacks is the most ironic thing in the last several years."

I said I also had to wonder why the capitalist overclass is so intent on destroying capitalism.