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Digby is my guest tonight
Virtually Speaking Susie 6pm pacific, 9pm eastern Digby and Susie Madrak explore the impact of current events on the daily lives of working class people. Listen live and later Following A to Z on Thursday, Jay hosts Eve Gittelson, who reviews the year in health care policy. Listen Live and Later. A to Z at 5pm/8pm, Jay and Eve at 6pm/9pm eastern. Bookmark It
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Midlife crisis economics
Shorter David Brooks: The administration has proven that the policies they never tried don’t work. Austerity! See? I could do that. Bookmark It
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Psst
Mr. President? When you find yourself in a hole, STOP DIGGING. Bookmark It
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I like Ike
I’ve been wondering about this. When was the turning point, where the U.S. decided pursuing war for empire was our path? That military might was preferable to actually improving the lives of our citizens? Why don’t the people who live here get any say in making these decisions? This piece from the Atlantic is enlightening, go read it all: DURING EISENHOWER’S PRESIDENCY, few credited him with being a great orator. Yet, as befit a Kansan and a military professional, Ike [...]
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Class War The Shadow Knows
What do they call a president
Who happens to be black? If you’ve read Malcolm X, you already know the answer. Chauncy Devega at We Are Respectable Negroes writes a compelling essay on racism, and how it permeates the national discussion on Obama. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, because the things that racists say to other white people are so shocking, not only for the content of their fevered insanity, but for their assumption that every other white person agrees with them. Still. [...]
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Protection
I read an intriguing article years ago (I think it was in Harpers) about how SUVs were actually designed to look hostile and aggressive — to appeal to the angry white male. There was a lot of talk about how buyers would perceive them as rolling fortresses to protect themselves and their families in a dangerous world. (It was more than a little ironic that so many of the early SUVs had a little problem with rollover that killed their [...]
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#OccupyWallStreet
The destroyers
When you have pieces like this appearing in Newsweek, you know how inevitable an upheaval has become. Michael Thomas: This time, I fear, the public anger will not be deflected. Confessions, not false, will be exacted. Occupy Wall Street has set the snowball rolling; you may not think much of OWS—I have my own reservations, although none are philosophical or moral—but it has made America aware of a sinister, usurious process by which wealth has systematically been funneled into fewer [...]
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My So-Called Life
Screwed
Remember how the state rep’s office intervened to get me into the pre-existing condition insurance program one month earlier? Turns out the insurance company has no record of that and my effective date will be Feb. 1st. Another month of this shit… Bookmark It
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2:55 am
I hate to use a pun, but damn, this *IS* the money quote:
“Since leaving SEIU, Stern has taken a position as a senior research fellow at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, affiliated with Georgetown University. He also serves on the corporate board of SIGA Technologies Inc., a biomedical defense firm controlled in large part by the private equity company owned by investor Ronald Perelman.”
7:59 am
Ha! Turncoat traitor! Mole! Sniveling wormtongue!
8:22 am
Capitalist running dog.
He’s getting his wealth kick, so now he’s more obviouslyl kicking down at the little people.
Like Obama.
8:23 am
That should be “As Obama has been doing,” to be perfectly clear.
11:01 am
He can join Andy Dick as a former comedian:
Comedian Andy Dick Indicted by Grand Jury