looks like a cross between Julian Assange and Heath Ledger.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
I.F. Stone
Thanks to a comment at Ilind.net, I found out about the website of I.F. Stone, which contains all his writings, including pdfs of the entire run of I.F. Stone Weekly. I'll likely add it to the list of links.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Saturday, July 23, 2011
NBC Nightly News Video on Texas Drought
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Friday, July 22, 2011
Far From the Best
If this guy isn't a dildo, I don't know who is. Considering he lives in a state shaped like America's phallus, perhaps it's not all that surprising.
25 July update: More
29 July update: AW faces a primary challenge--from the Tea Party.
AW: Tea Party Statist
AW threatens to leave Congressional Black Caucus. The article reminds us that during his 2010 campaign, AW claimed to have a higher security clearance than the President!
Has Militarist Right Found Its Warlord?
(12 September update: It's just sad when one unwittingly desecrates the flag.)
The Flag Code
Monday, July 18, 2011
Kunstler: "The Amazing Dissolving Nation"
in which he lays out the different paths European countries will take.
Europe has run the money string to its bitter end and now it just remains to be seen how each country blows up and where the dust settles. Greece and Portugal may just shrug and retire on an economy based on goat-cheese and olives. Ireland will get drunk and pass out for at least a century. Spain sinks back into an age-old catatonic daze, having gone broke spectacularly once before. Italy strings up Mr. Berlusconi on a lamp-post and breaks up into 112 warring city-states. France elects DSK, whose first act is to declare war on the City of New York. Religious wars leave England in embers. And Germany becomes the world's first "green" police state.
It's conceivable to me that Barack Obama may be the last president - for a while. He was a decent fellow but, in the end, ineffectual, and of course he got no help from the legislative branch, including especially colleagues in his own party, a most remarkable class of maundering chickenshits and grifters. Our money problems will not go away and after a while this land will not be governable by familiar means. In case you haven't noticed, the rule of law is already AWOL in many sectors of our national life, most particularly money matters, but before long on every street-corner, every highway strip, plus every GMO cornfield, and brownfield. The two parties are unreformable and the Tea Party is the stooge of one of the two parties, and there is no other party of earnest, decisive, and sane individuals anywhere near the horizon. So some kind of convulsion is in the cards and it will be the unfortunate duty of some dutiful officer to step in and set an agenda based on something other than bluster, fakery, and pocket pool.
While there's a good chance the US debt ceiling will be extended, it seems to me that meanwhile we have crossed an invisible line into a place where untoward things happen.
Europe has run the money string to its bitter end and now it just remains to be seen how each country blows up and where the dust settles. Greece and Portugal may just shrug and retire on an economy based on goat-cheese and olives. Ireland will get drunk and pass out for at least a century. Spain sinks back into an age-old catatonic daze, having gone broke spectacularly once before. Italy strings up Mr. Berlusconi on a lamp-post and breaks up into 112 warring city-states. France elects DSK, whose first act is to declare war on the City of New York. Religious wars leave England in embers. And Germany becomes the world's first "green" police state.
It's conceivable to me that Barack Obama may be the last president - for a while. He was a decent fellow but, in the end, ineffectual, and of course he got no help from the legislative branch, including especially colleagues in his own party, a most remarkable class of maundering chickenshits and grifters. Our money problems will not go away and after a while this land will not be governable by familiar means. In case you haven't noticed, the rule of law is already AWOL in many sectors of our national life, most particularly money matters, but before long on every street-corner, every highway strip, plus every GMO cornfield, and brownfield. The two parties are unreformable and the Tea Party is the stooge of one of the two parties, and there is no other party of earnest, decisive, and sane individuals anywhere near the horizon. So some kind of convulsion is in the cards and it will be the unfortunate duty of some dutiful officer to step in and set an agenda based on something other than bluster, fakery, and pocket pool.
While there's a good chance the US debt ceiling will be extended, it seems to me that meanwhile we have crossed an invisible line into a place where untoward things happen.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Monday, July 04, 2011
On the Fourth of July
"There is one day of the year when America should receive nothing but praise. That's July Fourth. On all other occasions, those who wish the United States well will vigorously distinguish the good from the bad, and especially from the BAD."
--Paul Fussell, BAD: Or, the Dumbing of America (New York: Summit Books, 1991).
--Paul Fussell, BAD: Or, the Dumbing of America (New York: Summit Books, 1991).
Saturday, July 02, 2011
Friday, July 01, 2011
The Richest Man in the World
Carlos Slim Helu
The World's Billionaires 2011--Forbes
Carlos Slim is a philanthropy skeptic.
Interesting findings:
The Koch brothers, David and Charles, both ranked 18th, are worth $22 billion each. David is slightly less rich than Charles but is still the richest man in New York City, if only because Charles lives in Wichita. Another Koch brother, William, is further down the list at 310, with a $3.5 billion fortune.
There are four Waltons listed (ranked at 10, 20, 21, and 22).
But Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart (currently ranked 100, with a $9 billion fortune) could soon have a fortune of $100 billion.
Wikipedia's list of non-Forbes billionaires, which includes Hosni Mubarak.
The Forbes 400 Richest People in America.
The World's Billionaires 2011--Forbes
Carlos Slim is a philanthropy skeptic.
Interesting findings:
The Koch brothers, David and Charles, both ranked 18th, are worth $22 billion each. David is slightly less rich than Charles but is still the richest man in New York City, if only because Charles lives in Wichita. Another Koch brother, William, is further down the list at 310, with a $3.5 billion fortune.
There are four Waltons listed (ranked at 10, 20, 21, and 22).
But Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart (currently ranked 100, with a $9 billion fortune) could soon have a fortune of $100 billion.
Wikipedia's list of non-Forbes billionaires, which includes Hosni Mubarak.
The Forbes 400 Richest People in America.
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