Why the “radio silence”? Partly because I’ve been enormously busy in my personal and professional life, and partly I admit some disillusionment with the benefit of political discussion. The later being that I wonder in the current insane rightward tilt of the political environment that trying to inject reality has any true benefits at all. [...]
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Via Digby: You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are [...] Why are the quotes necessary around “tortured” here?: I should note that I actually do know the answer to that question, they’re using it as shorthand for the word “alleged”, however quotes like this have dual meanings – and more often it’s used sarcastically to diminish the claim of the object in quotes (eg: [...] I always find it interesting where the term “accused” gets used or not in the news. For instance, this grab from the NYT: Don’t get me wrong – I’m more than dubious of the charges myself (and certainly completely against the punishment). Still, he wasn’t just “accused” – he was found guilty (albeit by [...] I have more to say on Ron Paul later, but this thought came to me today: Essentially what Ron Paul and Liberarians of similar ilk want to do is reverse the outcome of the Civil War. No, I don’t mean that they want to bring back slavery (though I think some do hold at least [...] Ran into this David Sedaris link/quote about “undecided voters” in the comment section over at Digby (credit to “victoreador”): To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the [...] Reading the comment section of a recent post by Glenn Greenwald (very much worth reading), it appears that the latest deification has switched from Obama to Ron Paul, which led to this comment by yours truly: I get that people love Paul and even why, but there seems to be a dangerously naive amount of [...]
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From my iGoogle feed: It’s true that Ron Paul technically doesn’t “represent the mainstream” (though sadly he represents a large number of Republicans), but I don’t like this technique – to marginalize someone by essentially saying they aren’t “one of us”. It’s used all the time to marginalize the left – to claim their [...] Via Glenn Greenwald (quoting I believe this DoD article): “As difficult as [the Iraq war] was … I think the price has been worth it, to establish a stable government in a very important region of the world” - Leon Panetta With “friends” like these, who needs enemies. Seriously, what a wanker. None of his [...] Regarding the democratic crisis in Hungary (via NYT): “In the short term it seems reasonable to take out the brakes from a car, it appears to go faster. The problem is when the first curve appears and you need them.” - Peter Hack, a law professor at the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest This is [...] |
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