Posts tagged Politics
Exile in Library School
I've never been cool, but I'm always a little chilly.
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For anyone who hates Rush Limbaugh but likes Prog Rock. Basically anyone with brains…or a soul.
“You can call this ‘class warfare’ all you want. But asking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary in taxes? Most Americans would call that ‘common sense.’”
— President BARACK OBAMA
(Source: inothernews, via motherjones)
Occupy vs. Wall Street: Elizabeth Warren raised $5.7 million in three months. But can she beat Scott Brown? We hit the trail with the Harvard law professor/new progressive icon to find out.
I LOVE Elizabeth Warren!
Best #OccupyWallStreet photo ever of the day.
I used to wonder: Is Huxley right or is Orwell right? It turns out they’re both right. First you get the new world state [Brave New World] and endless diversions as you are disempowered. And then, as we are watching, credit dries up, and the cheap manufactured goods of the consumer society are no longer cheap. Then you get the iron fist of Oceania, of Orwell’s 1984.
That’s NY Times journalist Chris Hedges in an interview with The Progressive. He keeps going:
That’s precisely the process that’s happened. We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the self—an undiluted hedonism and narcissism. That has become a very effective way to divert our attention while the country is reconfigured into a kind of neofeudalism, with a rapacious oligarchic elite and an anemic government that no longer is able to intercede on behalf of citizens but cravenly serves the interests of the oligarchy itself.
(via utnereader)
Another Awesome Matt Taibbi Article
It’s only class warfare if you think rich people should pay taxes. Draining the poor dry is just sound economic policy.
My favorite thing George Carlin ever said. This was filmed BEFORE the economy completely collapsed. Worried about the future yet? You should be.
Apparently in Texas it’s OK for the state to execute 471 people since 1982, but it’s not OK for them to curse about it.
At least they stopped publishing their final meals…
The Past Isn't Past: Michelle Bachmann and Frozen Founders
My favorite quote from this article:
“So why not cite that actual history?
Because it is complicated, and Bachmann is looking for simplicity. To talk about the movement to end slavery in the northern states inevitably draws attention to the reality that the southern states not only did not follow, but over time grew more committed to maintaining slavery. The reason later generations had to work so “tirelessly” against slavery is that other Americans were working so tirelessly for it.”
There’s also a great article about her in Rolling Stone, which everyone should check out.
