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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Stealing verbatim from Brad Delong (quoting from John Gapper’s “How To Be A Rogue Trader” probably via this): “To know what goes on in the mind of a rogue trader – and that of every reckless gambler – it helps to be a bird-watcher. The yellow-eyed junco is a type of sparrow found in Mexico [...] First, I think this headline is hilarious: (god knows the stupid people need help). Second, here’s the money quote: “Here’s what I need you to do: Stay informed, know the facts because stupid people are ruining America.” Third, and finally, everyone agrees that “stupid people are ruining America” we all just disagree about which [...] Joseph Stiglitz via Digby: Alexis de Tocqueville once described what he saw as a chief part of the peculiar genius of American society—something he called “self-interest properly understood.” The last two words were the key. Everyone possesses self-interest in a narrow sense: I want what’s good for me right now! Self-interest “properly understood” is different. [...] If people are tuning into “The Daily Show” for news, it’s like an alcoholic drinking shampoo because there’s nothing else in the house. - David Javerbaum Adam Smith via Krugman regarding banking regulation: “Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respect a violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all governments; [...] |
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