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Sometimes truth truly is stranger than fiction. That is, you hit a document, web site, video, audio recording, opinion, whatever where you just can’t believe what you’re reading. Did they really say that? Did they really admit to that? Are they really willing to show so much of the sausage making? You’d think a [...] I have to admit at some level even I have a hard time labeling these guys as “terrorists”: AP News – A ninth suspected member of a Christian militia group that prosecutors say was preparing for battle against the Antichrist and the U.S. government is to be arraigned Tuesday in federal court, the U.S. Attorney’s [...] From “My Father’s Keeper” by Stephan and Norbert Lebert, a book of interviews with children of Nazi leaders: Himmler’s name and home have a particular – a particularly grisly – significance for Martin Bormann [Junior, son of Martin Borman Senior, famous Nazi]. About a year before the end of the war he and his sisters [...] From Dan Froomkin via Brad Delong: Is America the “land of opportunity”? Not so much. A new report from the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) finds that social mobility between generations is dramatically lower in the U.S. than in many other developed countries. From what I’ve seen of Europe (my wife is from [...] I’ve been thinking recently about conservatives decrying liberals for support of government intervention (aka “Liberal Fascism“). The argument goes that liberals are the enemy because we want to sap and impurify the perfection of free market capitalism. Or more seriously, that our misguided belief that government has a positive role to play, threatens the fabric [...] Brad Delong quotes David Schaengold regarding torture: Is the GOP really becoming the party of torture? For the past several years I have been assuming that the torture would eventually stop … But the battle seems fundamentally lost, and I have personally lost a good deal of the stamina required to make the same basic [...] I love stuff like this: If You Died Today? First, insurance companies wonder why we hate them. Uh, duh. Second, while I entirely support the legality of advertisements such as above (freedom of speech and all), we as a people should give companies like this so much crap that they’re dare not to spew [...] They are both sides of the same coin and usually practiced by the same people. They both substitute belief for science, don’t hold up to the facts, and show enormous tunnel-vision. Just sayin’. You’ve heard of “American Exceptionalism“, well the next step is “Republican Exceptionalism”: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/opinion/16brooks.html Apparently when Republicans use “reconciliation”, it’s a “kinder, gentler” reconciliation. One that uses more K-Y I guess. UPDATE: By the way, when I say “Republicans”, I mean the Republican leadership and propaganda arms. Normal everyday Republicans are generally good people [...] What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would [...] |
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