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The Logic of Our Wars
Shamelessly stealing this from Atrios: It’s hard not to think that the goal is to stay until everyone who wants us to leave is dead, at which point we can finally leave.
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Dig at the Root of the Problem
I wrote a long post about politics and the health care bill but I trashed the whole thing after reading about a poll indicating how utterly vacuous and stupid some Americans are. At a bar, I had to listen to someone tell me Rome fell because of gays in their military. I would really like [...]
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Lockdown
Scared by how completely insane the right is (read the comments too) and also scared by the left being completely blind.
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Two Good Documentaries
Hulu has two free documentaries which are necessary viewing whether you’re conservative, liberal, radical, communist, or an independent weirdo. The Corporation – The beginning of “too big to fail” which is anathema to capitalism. It starts out sounding heavily left and critical but gives a fairly balanced view. The film was made by Canadians. Manufacturing [...]
The European Worker Perspective
I picked this up from the comments of a Huffpo story about a court ruling that you can’t fire someone over a slice of cheese. Unions are un-American. That is why the American worker will go lower and lower to be a good American. Working for peanuts is the American dream, from dishwasher to millionaire. [...]
Feeling Better
It’s nice to be over it more or less especially since I never meant to turn this blog into a mere status report (see Twitter). A couple things: The Wall Street Journal is actually making good sense. All of the endless posturing, fear-mongering, and overspending on the War on Terror™ has got to stop if [...]
The Skimmer Industries
This stuff is important. We’re still giving money away to people who don’t really make anything except money: finance and health insurance. I’m not seeing much support for small businesses and Main Street.
A Year of More BS
Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse put together a sobering top ten of things to watch for in 2010. One jerk makes going to the airport that much worse for millions of people and forces the U.S. to open another propaganda-plus (more foreign aid and saber-rattling) front in Yemen. I am bewildered at the machinations of [...]
Crack Door
I got sucker-punched on 106th Street some years back. Nothing major until now. Random violence in your neighborhood makes you wonder who your friends are. This is the sort of thing that makes wingnuts such assholes. They would just say I’m a hippie living in an urban hellhole.
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Thanksgiving Jozz
I am thankful for a year of mostly no work and having a lot of time to think and read and watch movies, but now I really need some work. My health is great thanks to a mostly vegan diet. I very much enjoyed the PeTA ad that got rejected by NBC. The heavy-handedness is [...]
A Day for New York