Chile: The other 9/11 Following Allende’s election, the US Ambassador cabled Washington: “Chile voted calmly to have a Marxist-Leninist state, the first country in the world to make this choice freely and knowingly.”
Category Archives: serious stuff
Dear Jack,
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
thanks for your letter. Politics aside, this hit me hard. i’ve just lost a summer to anger and fear and despair, despite many good things happening. Optimism i can kind of do, but my hope always goes nowhere, and love? i can’t even start, despair and fear and anger always follow when i try to […]
Why we fight
Friday, June 17, 2011
Eisenhower’s worst fears came true. We invent enemies to buy the bombs It is not democracy that keeps western nations at war, but armies and the interests now massed behind them.
Vote splitting
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Vote splitting crucial : NDP strength swung Liberal votes to Tories The first returns suggest the rising support for the NDP has drawn enough votes to allow the Tories to capture 13 seats perviously [sic] held by Liberals and one held by the Bloc Québé cois [sic]. Although the Greens saw their popular vote again […]
Meanwhile in America
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
What’s Left of the Left Even then, these economists recognized what a paltry, bowdlerized proxy for the left they were: six academics, and by any broad ideological standard a pretty moderate group, comfortable with markets and free trade. But liberals had long ago ceased to rally around class. “In the United States,” Blinder told me […]
nah, i don’t think we’re screwed
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Rules of Misbehavior Dan Savage, the brilliant and foul-mouthed sex columnist, has become one of the most important ethicists in America. Are we screwed? […] If Savage’s ethical guidelines—disclosure, autonomy, mutual exchange, and minimum standards of performance—seem familiar or intuitive, it’s probably because they also govern expectations in the markets for goods and services.
“So you mean I’m likely to lose my job because these people won’t pay up?”
Thursday, March 3, 2011
How to Build a Progressive Tea Party Imagine a parallel universe where the Great Crash of 2008 was followed by a Tea Party of a very different kind. Enraged citizens gather in every city, week after week—to demand the government finally regulate the behavior of corporations and the superrich, and force them to start paying […]
For me, it’s avoiding being a douchebag
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Why don’t female rock stars have groupies? “No, ladies in bands don’t get ANY action,” Neko Case, a woman Playboy readers once deemed the “Sexiest Babe of Indie Rock,” tweeted on Saturday. “Back me up ladies. no one believes this.”
base64 is the devil
Monday, January 24, 2011
Why You Should Never Search For Free WordPress Themes in Google or Anywhere Else Out of the top 10 search results on Google for WP themes, 8 have themes that include bogus code. via Metafilter
