If Only Americans Weren't So Goddamned Stupid We Wouldn't Have to Send Them to Re-Education Campsby Matt WelchReason Magazine Aug. 08, 2011 |
NYT: Israel Planted Explosives in Pagers Sold to Hezbollah by Taiwanese Company
Israel Detonates Hand-Held Walkie Talkies in Lebanon in Second Wave of Explosive Attacks
Thousands Injured, At Least Eight Killed in Lebanon After 'Israel Triggers Pagers to Explode' [UPDATE]
Springfield Factory Owner Revels in Replacing American Workers With Haitian Migrants
The Atlantic: Don't Worry About Israel Putting a Bomb in Your Phone
Jacob Weisberg, Slate: there's no point trying to explain complicated matters to the American people.Drew Westen, New York Times: To the average American, who was still staring into the abyss, the half-stimulus did nothing but prove that Ronald Reagan was right, that government is the problem. In fact, the average American had no idea what Democrats were trying to accomplish by deficit spending because no one bothered to explain it to them with the repetition and evocative imagery that our brains require to make an idea, particularly a paradoxical one, "stick."Christina Romer, on Real Time With Bill Maher: Maher asked Romer, "How uncontroversial is Keynesian economics?"Jeffrey Wells, Hollywood Elsewhere: Many times I've riffed on a dark, delicious fantasy about rounding up Tea Bagger types and sentencing them to green re-education camps for minimum one-year terms. Not to punish per se but to expose these contemptible morons to facts, to truth, to the way things really are and how they're being played by the rich, and the fact that Boomers have taken almost everything and that diminished lifestyles and economic security are being bequeathed to Genx and GenY for decades to come, and that the best is definitely over. The infra-structure that once provided decent, fair-minded quality of life to middle-class people in this country is disintegrating. The game is rigged. This is the fall of the Roman Empire. |