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Vietnamization

Oct 5th, 2010 at 6:21 pm by

Deja vu all over again…

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Welcome back, Rahm

Oct 5th, 2010 at 6:12 pm by

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Breaking and entering

Oct 5th, 2010 at 4:13 pm by

Laws are for the little people!

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Turning

Oct 5th, 2010 at 3:08 pm by

It’s reader/contributor K’s birthday (Happy birthday to you, K.!), and she took this lovely picture of her local trees turning:

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Gone

Oct 5th, 2010 at 2:53 pm by

Howard Kurtz leaving the Post for the Daily Beast. Gee, I miss him already!

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Larry Summers and the Subversion of Economics

Oct 5th, 2010 at 2:31 pm by

It’s good, read it.

Posted in Class War, Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Politics As Usual, The New Depression | 1 Comment »

It gets better

Oct 5th, 2010 at 1:32 pm by

Another video inspired by the Dan Savage project, “It Gets Better.” While most of them are aimed at LGBT kids, I’ve seen some great ones aimed at high school misfits in general.

If you know a kid or a parent who needs to see this, pass it along:

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Book chat

Oct 5th, 2010 at 12:50 pm by

I’m hosting a live book chat 1 p.m. EST on Crooks and Liars with The Nation’s Ari Berman, author of “Herding Donkeys.”

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Cleaning Soap World

Oct 5th, 2010 at 12:23 pm by

I was trolling my archives, and this April 2004 post made me chuckle. I don’t watch them now (although I did when I wrote this), but I’ve never been defensive about it. What the hell, they’re fun!

CLEANING SOAP WORLD

Via Jo at Democratic Veteran:

So now the FCC wants to clean up the soap operas. I can tell you this: This is the third rail of pop culture.

These morons have no idea what they’re fucking with.

Soap fans have little in common except their love for this bizarre alternate universe, in which anything can (and usually does) happen. People rise from the dead, babies get switched at birth and 65-year-old women play 35-year-old tycoons. Everyone over 40 has a bad facelift and the wardrobes are (to use the preznit’s favorite adjective) “fabulous!”

In other words, not at all like real life. That’s why we like it. We like the predictability of its unpredictability. We laugh at how easily women “lose” babies, the way they inevitably get trapped in a remote mountain cabin when it’s time to give birth. We love how true love is thwarted by misunderstanding but wins out in the end.

Come to think of it, my life is actually a little stranger than soaps. Oh well. Their wardrobes are better.

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Mouseland

Oct 5th, 2010 at 11:46 am by

Yeah, we could learn a thing or two from those Canadians:

Tommy Douglas was the socialist premier of Saskatchewan, the father of Canada’s healthcare system, and the grandfather of actor Keifer Sutherland. In this short animated video introduced by Sutherland, Douglas delivers his famous “Mouseland” parable, about the day the mice decided to elect their own to government.

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