tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60765132011-12-14T18:57:06.481-08:00dilemmanade<b>When life gives you dilemmas, make dilemmanade.</b>Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comBlogger1111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-75795622335485501062011-05-02T17:59:00.000-07:002011-05-02T18:17:03.668-07:00Memo to Fellow Urban Hellhole DriversI figure that the ubiquity of video games-- the fact that most people driving today played car racing games before they learned to drive-- has contributed mightily to the aggressive way people drive in My Urban Hellhole (TM Atrios). People seem to treat driving like a game.It's as if you get points for every car you pass, which is why some people constantly Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-30472038723985065102011-03-28T17:35:00.000-07:002011-04-20T07:37:28.727-07:00There is no middle class, there never was a middle class.A class that is not self-conscious is only a class in a purely indexical sense. Minerals can be classified by hardness, and people can be classified by income. But it doesn't make the middle class a class in the way the European aristocracy or the serfs who supported them were classes.What we have is groups with special benefits: groups Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-7206632602884096792011-03-11T15:22:00.000-08:002011-03-11T15:24:26.932-08:00And Now For Something Completely Mundane1: Billboards are effective (else businesses wouldn't use them).2: Being effective, they necessarily divert peoples' attention.Conclusion: They should be illegal where they would be visible to drivers.The fact that billboards are not illegal where they would be visible to drivers, that nobody would ever seriously consider making them so, demonstrates that Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-68257596213127780942010-11-19T12:45:00.000-08:002010-11-19T12:48:45.254-08:00Hard ChoicesAmerica, we face some hard choices. We must either raise taxes on the rich, after three glorious decades of cutting them, or else make old people work till they drop, abandon the unemployed, and generally allow the middle class to be ground into the dirt.We must either re-regulate the bankers and corporations, after three glorious decades of deregulating them, or else just let them Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-65698513841996694372010-11-02T09:59:00.000-07:002010-11-02T10:06:51.839-07:00Today... I will for the first time in my life vote straight party line (Democrat), but I don't feel good about it. Possible slogans the Democrats could have used:Vote for the party that serves the interests of the rich and corporations, but at least isn't a bunch of racists, lunatics, fascists and theocrats!Vote for Democrats: Sure they're vile, but considerably less so than Republicans!Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-23545823875249088242010-10-08T10:37:00.000-07:002010-10-08T10:47:48.720-07:00This Modern World (apologies to Tom Tomorrow)Via Alternet we learn:Call Waiting and Call Forwarding cost less then $.01 cent to offer yet the company charges $4-$7 for such features. I've got another. They charge one dollar per month to not make your number public. That is, a human being when setting up your account clicks on a choice of "no" for publication, then you are charged a dollar a Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-71021331906525933312010-08-21T10:20:00.000-07:002010-08-22T08:33:00.751-07:00Don't know much about history.In America people know what Karl Marx was wrong about: that the workers would rise up, overthrow capitalism, and create a workers' paradise. We don't know what he was right about: that capitalism is prone to booms and busts and bubbles; that it tends to lead to monopolization; that to increase their profits the owners of the means of production will always push the Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-83776036606590176492010-07-13T12:01:00.000-07:002010-08-21T10:28:59.181-07:00Class warfare?...Update 3: The "cocos y mangos" guy is back. And it occurs to me that the most likely explanation of what happened to the recyclers is that the local homeowners association complained to the local precinct captain, and he had them chased away. Who knows?Update 2: The guy who sells "cocos y mangos" at a busy intersection on my commute route is gone now, too.Update: The regular Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-18209152262346732842010-07-12T14:42:00.000-07:002010-09-25T07:38:21.323-07:00In which I feel validated...Robert Reich says: We're in a recession because the rich are raking in an absurd portion of the wealth.Well, I want to thank Robert Reich for that. As far as I know, no one but cranks like yours truly have been saying this so plainly. But has he been saying this for a long time and I just haven't happened to catch it? This isn't suddenly true. It's been coming on Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-87073714947980909142010-05-07T14:51:00.000-07:002010-05-07T14:54:03.827-07:00SkimmersThe Greek public is right: the financial collapse is not the fault of the working class, and the working class should not be the folks suffering to set things right.Will Americans also revolt? Probably not. The skimmers have been more than masterful in their dominance of public discourse in America. They have bamboozled the actual producers of wealth-- workers-- into thinking that theyClarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-70497598537985089512010-03-05T13:09:00.000-08:002010-03-25T10:53:50.037-07:0099 council districs for Los AngelesBack in the early 80s some friends became interested in the German Green Party, which led us to become involved with a bunch of people who were similarly interested in and around Los Angeles.We became excited. Couldn't we do here what they were doing there? There were a lot of meetings, and we set out to start a Green Party here.I must pause to mention that Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-90580632889273707922009-11-19T08:51:00.000-08:002009-11-19T08:54:21.699-08:00Americatown: A Teabagger Bedtime StoryOnce upon a time there was a town. It was a prosperous little town with a bank, a factory, a store, and a health insurance company. It was called Americatown. And everyone in Americatown wore white.And when I say Americatown was prosperous, of course that doesn't mean that everyone was prosperous. In fact, a lot of people were dirt poor, and most people Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-72707090847820079192009-10-19T11:40:00.000-07:002009-10-19T11:43:42.188-07:00It's an Emperor-has-no-clothes kind of thing.It's been true for decades that we have a huge and hugely expensive military out of all proportion to need or sanity. And it's been true that it is that level of expenditure on the military we can't afford, not universal health care or a free college education, or welfare or social security or unemployment insurance or any of the things the country Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-46227217622410212962009-09-11T08:55:00.000-07:002009-09-11T08:58:03.579-07:00Deep ThoughtCorporations are not persons, and giving money to politicians is not speech.Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-26317773455168090592009-08-17T14:01:00.000-07:002009-08-17T14:04:21.749-07:00An economist I can believe in.From EconoSpeak, "The policy responses to the recession so far have not addressed the fundamental imbalance in the economy, which is the concentration of income shares and market power at the top of the pyramid."Now, Sandwichman argues that we need to reduce work hours to solve this problem, and I'm with him. But I don't see it happening any more than single payer Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-19508622310506530182008-12-17T07:12:00.000-08:002008-12-17T07:17:32.027-08:00Fiscal Stimulus... (C)What about lowering the age at which one can start collecting Social Security? That would be injecting money where it would be spent. And it would mean some folks no longer competing for jobs. It should be going down instead of up anyway.Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-26755024421413302502008-11-25T10:37:00.000-08:002008-11-25T10:48:18.471-08:00The elephant in the room...(C)I feel it's my duty to alert everyone: There is an elephant in the room. And it's making conversation a little difficult as we try to talk over and around it.Simply put: The rich have too much money.No, it isn't an elephant. It's a forest that we can't see because we're focused on trees like "liquidity," and "Credit Default Swaps." Capitalism is like Monopoloy. Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-20324903397489052992008-11-21T13:42:00.000-08:002008-11-21T13:44:16.573-08:00Sober up now... (C)Joe sez:"The ungilded truth is that the planet, at least as regards its sustenance of mankind and thousands of other species, is irredeemably fucked. Toast. And we cannot fix it, only slow down the inevitable, and hopefully settle out at some level which, though desolate by today's standards, we are still in a breathing and shitting state of existence."That's kinda how I see itClarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-37003374874585417522008-10-23T14:44:00.000-07:002008-10-23T14:46:43.457-07:00Great things are possible... (C)Okay, I'm feeling a little better now.And I'm not going to look at any more of those lunatics-for-McCain videos.Some months ago I heard Yoko Ono interviewed on KPFK. She was saying that we're going to solve the global warming problem.At first I was shaking my head, thinking: "What a Pollyanna!"Then I realized that it's a great thing she's doing because we Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-80151557470852551022008-10-17T08:57:00.000-07:002008-10-17T09:01:13.873-07:00I've been depressed... (C)I've been depressed and disoriented lately. Frozen; unable to do much of anything but read blogs all day and drink all night. And I haven't known why.This morning, I was looking at one of those videos of a Palin rally where people are saying they believe Obama is a terrorist. And I realized what the problem is.I'm terrified.I'm terrified of what the yahoos and the Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-40283655983489610812008-10-14T17:20:00.000-07:002008-10-14T17:28:49.167-07:00Thinking more about the smear campaign... (C)There's a whole lot crazy white racists who are going to be pissed beyond their ability to cope when Obama is elected. (Cracker heads will be exploding on the day he's going to actually occupy the White House-- A Black Man in the White House.)And the Republicans have already been setting up a narrative for these folks, a narrative that manages to Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-58585083755532482022008-10-14T17:17:00.000-07:002008-10-14T17:20:42.986-07:00Stepping back... (C)McCaine: not overly-bright and a tad incurious, one of those elites with a well-developed sense of entitlement, but basically a believer in democracy and the rule of law, if not scrupulous honesty and fairness.He seemed like an okay guy (if not really a war hero because crashing a few jets and being a POW doesn't actually make you a war hero). Then he went negative in Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-69836414042253105572008-10-14T17:12:00.000-07:002008-10-14T17:17:14.556-07:00On that red meat thing... (C)I read at the LA Times web site the other day that Faux News a week ago Sunday ran a documentary where it was put forth that an Obama win in Novemeber will represent a "radical overthrow of our government."That is read meat for the jackals. And McCain and Palin have been throwing them red meat, too.We'll come back to that.Remember the Brooks Brothers riot of 2000? Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-20086141156816560982008-10-14T17:06:00.000-07:002008-10-14T17:11:56.947-07:00A thought... (C)Dean Reynolds recently complained about the lack of a published, rigid schedule for Obama, and wonders why the campaign is "seemingly improvisational." Obama is trying, duh!, to avoid being assassinated. Has this guy never red a spy novel? Not telegraphing his movements, avoiding routines, makes it harder for people trying to organize such a thing to draw a bead on him. He's Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-73029747750098286532008-09-30T11:22:00.000-07:002008-09-30T11:36:53.667-07:00A true story...(Posted by C)About eight years ago, when our previous dad, Bill, moved out, Mom married this guy, George, who didn't know anything about farming, but who was good to have a beer with.She coulda married this guy Al, but George had a swagger. And a fake Texas accent that matched his boots. He'd polished his "Aw, shucks" til it shone.Then about four years ago, there was this guy John,Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-20369731698686667782008-09-29T14:33:00.000-07:002008-09-30T11:22:35.037-07:00The American Electorate... (posted by C)It's almost October of a presidential election year. A question less timely, and easy to ignore during other times and other years-- and who could blame us for ignoring it, because the answer is so profoundly depressing-- rears its head and is brought into focus once again: Who are the electorate?We can break voters down into a few broad categories. (Yes, Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-29458464420678044552008-06-03T09:45:00.000-07:002008-06-03T09:47:58.310-07:00Apropos of nothing... (because I posted it as a comment on uggabugga) Posted by CPsychoanalyst Alice Miller wrote about the rise of Hitler that a lot of Germans positively identified with Hitler in part because he was like their authoritarian dads, a comforting association in an insecure time, when society was fast changing around them in ways they didn't understand or know how to deal Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-48111977015259061082008-04-10T10:27:00.000-07:002008-04-10T10:37:32.752-07:00Housing costs...Posted by CKevin sez: "[R]ising average earnings have, over time, increased the percentage of income that families are willing (and able) to spend on housing."I don't think so. And I don't understand why Kevin says so.Only if the rise in earnings were outpacing significantly the rise in the cost of living would it result in more money for anything-- housing or otherwise. And that Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-30308307406930111662008-01-04T14:01:00.000-08:002008-04-10T10:26:53.005-07:00Class Struggle...Posted by CIt is conventional wisdom that Democrats should not use the language of class struggle. Because it's divisive.Well, I can't help but think that that little piece of conventional wisdom was thought up in a Republican think tank. Because Democrats not using the language of class struggle is unilateral disarmament on their part.Workers and the poor made extraordinary Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-31160873463700164422007-10-08T11:56:00.000-07:002007-10-08T12:00:01.074-07:00Framing...Posted by CIt's long past time that progressives quit using the language, the framing of the corporate elites when discussing trade agreements. It's not "free trade" vs. "protectionism." It's "free-for-all" trade agreements vs. responsible trade agreements.Free-for-all trade is good for the biggest of the international corporations, and no one else. In a free-for-all they can cheat wageClarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-32129940832807006452007-06-19T14:51:00.000-07:002007-06-19T15:02:52.870-07:00The Rule Of Law...Posted by CSo City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo let the City pay to repair a car that his wife damaged while she was driving it illegally. I know, I know: it sounds like fraud. And he had no intention of paying the City back until he was busted.Well, so what?This is what people don't seem to understand about the rule of law: The rule of law applies in inverse proportion to the Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-60668170281842180642007-05-17T10:09:00.000-07:002007-05-17T11:01:40.139-07:00Dancing On Falwell's Grave... Posted By EI've always wondered from whence comes this prohibition against speaking ill of the dead. I realize that there are extreme exceptions --Hitler, Jeffrey Dahmer, etc.-- but why do so many people suddenly equivocate and/or behave in a conciliatory manner when their adversaries assume room temperature?It's a time-honored tradition too, this "de mortuis nil Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1990163527006479562007-05-04T13:25:00.000-07:002007-05-04T13:35:14.845-07:00Apropos of nothing…Posted by CNote: This is a true story. But it happened more than twenty years ago, so the statute of limitations has long since expired.An old friend of mine was leaving a bar one night. The bar sits on the edge of a deep, rocky ravine. (This will be important later.)Now, let me tell you about Ric. Ric is a great guy: smart, funny, and generous to a fault. He’s also a Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-61516258438670215622007-04-27T21:00:00.000-07:002007-04-27T21:04:24.031-07:00Thought for the day...Posted by CThe Bush administration is so corrupt and inept... They're giving good old-fashioned cold-hearted greedy Republicanism a bad name.Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1160601805265683352006-10-11T12:39:00.000-07:002006-10-11T16:32:34.696-07:00Sit. The Fuck. Down. --Posted by EWent to a concert last night. Roger Waters, former bassist for Pink Floyd, performing the entire "Dark Side of the Moon" album as well as a bunch of other Pink Floyd songs and material from his solo career. It could have been a great show, but there were "problems." Hence the following rant:I really like Pink Floyd. I think I have all of their studio albums.Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1155743614965525112006-08-16T08:47:00.000-07:002006-08-16T08:53:35.020-07:00Yeah, probably they did...Posted by CI'm only reposting what I left in comments over at someone else's blog because I haven't posted here in so long. See-- I'm still thinking, even if I'm not writing.The Republicans don't really believe that "Lamont represents a movement within the Democratic party which is unpopular with the median voter." They're saying so in an attempt to keep pols and the Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1143559574410928162006-03-28T07:18:00.000-08:002006-03-28T07:26:14.423-08:00I've got a feelin'...Posted by CThat Andy Card's resignation has something to do with the Plame outing scandal. He certainly was in all the right places to have done something wrong: Founder of the White House Iraq Group; on Air Force One in the July 2003 trip to Africa; warned by Abu Gonzalez 12 hours before White House staff was told to preserve documents in the case. Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1143270279755216562006-03-24T23:02:00.000-08:002008-01-06T12:04:05.718-08:00There ought to be a word...Posted by CI think we all got a special thrill from Box Turtle Ben being brought down because he served as a stand-in for W, because of what he has in common with W: they are both liars, hypocrites. But it's more than that. It's that they both apparently have this idea that whatever they do is okay because they are special.There ought to be a word for that. There ought Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1141068870081348692006-02-27T11:31:00.000-08:002006-02-27T19:01:10.003-08:00Put on your tinfoil hats...Posted by CBush said he really doesn't care about catching Bin Laden. What if that's because the Bush family is friends with the Bin Laden family? Or because BushCo knows that as long as Bin Laden is alive, he and Bush prop each other up?What if BushCo actually wants chaos in the Middle East in order to create a "Long War" (read: war without end) because it justifies Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1140620789927315822006-02-22T07:05:00.000-08:002006-02-22T07:08:49.996-08:00Branding...Posted by CFrom TomPaine.com:Officially, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld calls it “The Long War,” a propaganda term designed to echo “the Cold War,” and the Pentagon intends to brainwash Americans into supporting a generation-long struggle that will lay the groundwork for an American hegemony in the 21st century.I guess "The War on Terror" moniker is wearing a little thin, what with Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1139460431575820202006-02-08T20:35:00.000-08:002006-02-08T22:10:25.280-08:00Just sayin'...Posted by CIf we accept that Americans can now be put in jail without charges, without access to a lawyer, and for as long the president wants-- then the terrorists have won.If we accept that the U.S. can now engage in the torture of prisoners and suspects-- then the terrorists have won.If we accept that the NSA can now eavesdrop on Americans without a warrant-- then the terrorists Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1139375597709788282006-02-07T21:07:00.000-08:002006-02-07T21:13:17.716-08:00It's probably apocryphal...Posted by CSome prof of mine, I think, told me that Marx, I think, once said, I think:History is a series of over-reactions to over-reactions.I can't find anything with google, so I'd be happy to take credit for the quote myself...Anyway, it's what comes to mind from the "cartoon controversy" upsetting so many people.Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1139250621255786552006-02-06T10:23:00.000-08:002006-02-06T10:30:21.266-08:00We're NOT at war...posted by C(I posted this in comments over at Digby's.)Only Congress can declare war. I don't know exactly what phrase could be used instead (in order not to sound "soft on terrorism"), but W should not be able to claim war powers when war has not been formally declared.We are fighting terrorism, we are hunting terrorists, but terrorism isn't a country, and we're not at war.Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1138647020510047502006-01-30T10:47:00.000-08:002006-01-30T10:50:20.510-08:00Just sayin'...Posted by CSomething Democrats could use to respond to W's justifications for illegal spying on Americans: "What the president (or AG, whatever) is saying is that he has to subvert the constitution in order to save it."Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1138646801994489432006-01-30T10:40:00.000-08:002006-02-02T08:37:17.040-08:00Framing...Posted by CI posted some time ago about operantclassical conditioning in political discourse: George Bush and his partners in crime used "9/11" and "Saddam Hussein" in the same sentence so many times that a large swath of the U.S. population thought that Iraq was involved in 9/11. Not because anyone had outright said so. Just because our brains work that way.Let's try the same Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1138115465825363142006-01-24T07:02:00.000-08:002006-01-24T07:11:05.856-08:00Just sayin'...Posted by CPeople who think the President should be able to throw American citizens in jail without charges or access to a lawyer, establish secret CIA prison camps, torture people, and spy on Americans without a warrant might also like to change the name of our country to the United Soviet States of America.Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1138054553252982032006-01-23T14:04:00.000-08:002006-01-23T14:15:53.286-08:00Psychoanalysis...Posted by CDigby, and a number of commenters, mentioned how they can't stand to hear Bush speak. And I so relate, but it reminds me...When Reagan was our President, I couldn’t stand to listen to him, either. And I couldn’t understand why anyone else could stand to listen to him. Then I came across a book called Thou Shalt Not Be Aware, by Alice Miller.Miller, a psychoanalyst, Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1137533089602545222006-01-17T13:18:00.000-08:002006-01-17T13:24:49.616-08:00Framing...Posted by CImpeachment is the correct solution to the failed and corrupt presidency we find ourselves saddled with. The problems with impeachment are 1) that it has been used so recently in a frivilous manner and 2) that the Republicans control both the House and Senate. Thus, framing the issue so that it will gain support and ultimately succeed is more difficult than it might Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1136572332853235032006-01-06T10:24:00.000-08:002006-01-06T10:33:01.156-08:00Personality of lawlessness...Posted by C(Re-posted here from comments over at Hullabaloo).W doesn't just believe the presidency is above the law. He believes that he, personally, is above the law.I don't think that it's simple sociopathy. It's hard for me to imagine that a true sociopath with family wealth at his disposal would not be caught up in smaller fetishistic diversions that would keep Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1132091428915110252005-11-15T13:43:00.000-08:002005-11-15T13:50:28.933-08:00Three Card Monte...Posted by CThe president using congressional approval of use of force in Iraq to demonstrate he didn't mislead us into war is like the Three Card Monte dealer saying, "Hey, you picked the card, right? You stood right there and saw everything I saw, right?"Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1131775174796322712005-11-11T21:57:00.000-08:002005-11-11T22:01:28.703-08:00Just saying... Posted by CNot believing glogal warming is caused by pollution is like not believing diaper rash is caused by dirty diapers.Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1125330506461067752005-08-29T08:34:00.000-07:002005-08-29T09:03:03.803-07:00Despicable...Posted by CAP reports that "conservatives," led by Grover Norquist, are asking congress to to "cut back a critical provision [of federal law]: the authority to pay hefty rewards to whistle-blowers who provide inside information about improper activities by medical groups, drug companies and other healthcare providers."Now, why would he want to do that? It can't be a fiscal issue Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1125157389007535892005-08-27T08:40:00.000-07:002005-08-27T08:43:09.013-07:00The naked truth...Posted by CDigby says of the administration: They are continuing to fight their war for US hegemony on the world stage, Republican hegemony in American politics and Executive hegemony within the government. That's a nice distillation of what they are really all about. Let's distill it further, shall we? They stand for: world dominance, a one-party state, and the fuhrer Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1120759202661753652005-07-07T10:51:00.000-07:002005-07-07T11:00:02.673-07:00On Plame...Posted by CHere's my attempt at a narrative that accounts for all the seeming contradictions in the Plame affair:Fitzgerald didn't subpoena Novak. Thus, Fitzgerald already knows Novak's source or sources. Novak talked. Why did Fitzgerald need Miller, then? Because Novak's source was Miller.Someone outside of the administration leaked to Miller. Administration officials just Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1115918528376913662005-05-12T10:19:00.000-07:002005-05-12T10:22:08.383-07:00Yalta...Posted by CThe Yalta comment had multiple purposes.First it was an inexpensive bone to toss to wingnuttery. There are still enough people around to whom that would be ingratiating.But, more importantly, it was also a set up for his next sentence, re-casting of the age old question of "freedom versus security" as "freedom versus stability."One reason for this re-casting is that "security Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1115414809960995072005-05-06T14:20:00.000-07:002005-05-06T19:02:11.300-07:00Jocular Design...Posted by CI am sympathetic to those members of the Kansas School Board who think that the theory of Intelligent Design should be taught to their children.Intelligent Design is not a scientific theory, that's true. Scientific theories can be proven false. The theory that God (or even Satan) created the world cannot be proven false. To wit: God could have put those fossils Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1105205120929928272005-01-08T09:21:00.000-08:002005-01-08T09:25:44.003-08:00The Monarchists...Posted by C
Mark A. R. Kleiman raises his finger to Alberto Gonzales for his monarchist stand on torture (and rightly so).
This is not a first. Recall Dubya's decision on stem cell research. To paraphrase, "Stem cell lines developed before I uttered the statement I am uttering now shall be deemed lawful, lines developed after these words shall be unlawful."
Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1103827759617108942004-12-23T10:38:00.000-08:002004-12-23T10:49:19.616-08:00RIP...Posted by C
So y'all know Gary Webb is dead. He was the reporter savaged by everyone-- and eventually driven from journalism-- for reporting that the CIA was involved in getting crack cocaine to the streets of L.A.
Pretty much everyone agreed it just couldn't be true. But it was true.
Presumably Gary committed suicide, by shooting himself twice in the head, it turns out.
Neat Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1100900646391391882004-11-19T13:39:00.000-08:002004-11-22T10:25:40.413-08:00If you can't beat 'em...Posted by C
join mock 'em.
Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1100292341187248862004-11-12T13:40:00.000-08:002004-11-12T12:47:47.060-08:00we wuz robbed...Posted by C
Thanks to Kevin Drum for pointing to this.
I should point out that even though he provided the link, Kevin doesn't believe fraud explains the discrepancy between the exit polls and the vote count: There must be some other explanation.
This is not a matter of evidence, he admits. On the one hand there has been no convincing evidence of fraud yet discovered, and on Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1099499262334829712004-11-03T08:21:00.000-08:002004-11-03T08:27:42.333-08:00How depressing...Posted by C
And scary.
Boy was I wrong.
Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1099424212829794022004-11-02T11:31:00.000-08:002004-11-02T11:36:52.830-08:00I'm predicting...Posted by C
A landslide victory for Kerry.
I think heavy voter turnout will favor Kerry: liberals and people on the actual sort-of left are motivated like never before (in my lifetime). Conservatives and people on the right are not. (Dumbya has screwed them all over-- seniors, veterans, fiscal conservatives, etc.)
I have never before seen lines at the polls on my way to workClarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1095977423738032662004-09-23T14:20:00.000-07:002004-09-23T15:10:23.740-07:00I like conspiracy theories...Posted by C
Grand, sweeping, omniverous ones. I don't believe them, necessarily. But I like them. And for that reason, I'm going to put one out there.
The Bush family and the Bin Laden family are in cahoots. Together they've manufactured a global crisis with the intent of elevating the prestige and power of both families. The idea is to harness the fear and Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1095972662422595442004-09-23T13:35:00.000-07:002004-09-23T13:51:02.423-07:00Safe v. Patriot...Posted by C
Heard on NPR this morning: Some senators are trying to repeal parts of the Patriot Act via the Safe Act. In particular, the bit about the guv being allowed to look at people's library borrowing records.
Presumably to present a "balanced" story, a supporter of the current situtaion was allowed to defend this little bit of freedom theft by the guv thusly: some Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1093382798125162122004-08-24T14:24:00.000-07:002004-08-24T14:26:38.126-07:00Spite...Posted by C
I have only one thing to add to this marvelous piece by Mark Ames, which posits that American voters, especially the white male kind, vote against their own interests out of spite. (Thanks to digby.)
It's not just spite. It's something more-- if I may-- existential. From Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.What has made them conceive that man must want a Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1091541287636625692004-08-03T06:51:00.000-07:002004-08-04T10:27:02.426-07:00War is the answer...Posted by C
Some people say "War is not the answer."
Those people are just not asking the right questions.
How can the nation's resources be harnessed to benefit the oil and weapons industries and the friends and relations of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney?
War is the answer.
How can the reactionary fears of the short-sighted and small-minded be exploited to push up the Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1089682785412093702004-07-12T18:33:00.000-07:002004-07-12T19:05:27.360-07:00I'm sure that I'm just being paranoid (Part 2)... Posted by E
I went camping and geocaching with my family for three days this past weekend, and returned last night to find that the Bush Regime is exploring ways to derail --oops, I mean delay-- the election in the event of a terrorist attack.
Now since the Bush Regime's militaristic approach to geopolitics is Osama Bin Laden's best Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1089388899657345942004-07-09T08:49:00.000-07:002004-07-09T09:07:37.606-07:00Placement...Posted by C
So 150 Million pieces of toy jewelry from India have been recalled because of toxic levels of lead. Where is this story in the Los Angeles Times? Page two of the Business section.
The front page headline on the California section is "NAACP Says Riordan Should Quit." He's Education Secretary in our state. And he made a bad joke (and not an ethnic one) that insulted a Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1089159160625265302004-07-06T17:01:00.000-07:002004-07-12T18:32:51.286-07:00I'm sure that I'm just being paranoid... Posted by E
I was listening to BBC World Service on our local PBS station on Saturday, and caught part of Carrie Gracie's interview with Ohio Governor (and Bush campaign chair for Ohio) Robert Taft.
Most of what I heard of the interview consisted of Taft sticking carefully to the somewhat desperate-sounding standard responses that the repubs are using inClarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1087959769917244102004-06-22T19:57:00.000-07:002004-06-22T20:11:45.653-07:00AP after GWB military records...Posted by C
Via Atrios
It's about time, eh?
It just may be that reporters, in general, are no smarter than anyone else, in general. And it's taking most people a long time to realize what a menace GWB is.
He isn't like other presidents that lean a little this way or that way. He's the idiot son of a former president-- and that is the only reason he is Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1087948366045429562004-06-22T16:42:00.000-07:002004-06-22T18:28:06.356-07:00Smoggy enough for you?...Posted by C
It's just despicable that the Supremes (and I guess there's no reason to be surprised by anything they do at this point) ruled that because of NAFTA California can't apply to Mexican trucks the same air pollution standards that apply to American trucks. If we can't regulate all trucks, then why can we regulate any trucks?
State Assemblywoman Fran Pavley (Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1087947395973858372004-06-22T16:04:00.000-07:002004-06-22T16:36:35.973-07:00Legislators Unite to Derail Primary Measure...Posted by C
So says a headline in today's L.A. Times.
You just gotta be suspicious when Republicans and Democrats get together on an issue.
[The Voter Choice Open Primary Act] initiative would replace the current system of party primaries with one primary election open to all candidates and voters. The two candidates who won the most votes would Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1087507880480403872004-06-17T14:23:00.000-07:002004-06-17T14:31:56.200-07:00The Press is now out to get Bush...Posted by C
There are headlines all over the place about there being no ties between Iraq and Al Queda.
The reporters already knew this.
The editors already knew this.
It's not even news. Why make headlines about it?
Because they also know that the American people don't know this. And they want them to know.
And I'm happy about this.
Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1086983560948322432004-06-11T12:39:00.000-07:002004-06-11T12:52:40.946-07:00Bush is toast...Posted by C
As each day goes by, I am more convinced that this is so. I won't make a list of everything he's done to alienate constituencies and undermine his credibility. What's new is: he's starting to look like a loser. Americans don't elect or re-elect losers.
There's more shit that's gonna hit the fan before November (Plame, more on torture, etc.), and about zero chance Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1086982576470973532004-06-11T12:26:00.000-07:002004-06-11T12:38:03.260-07:00Dark enough for ya?...Posted by C
(From the Houston Chronicle):
[H]undreds of instruments around the world recorded a drop in sunshine reaching the surface of Earth, as much as 10 percent from the late 1950s to the early '90s, or 2 to 3 percent per decade. In some areas like Asia, the United States and Europe, the drop was even steeper. Hong Kong saw a 37 percent decrease in its sunlight.
Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1080858605887794742004-04-01T14:30:00.000-08:002004-04-01T14:37:30.826-08:00Perhaps I'm being too hard on the American public...posted by C
And not hard enough on the press.
Matt Yglesias here (thanks to Digby) refers to studies that show that most Americans would have opposed the Bush tax cuts for favoring the rich, but were misled by the Administration, and not enlightened by the press.
Similarly, the majority of those who support the Iraq war were (are still?) Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1080851270464995232004-04-01T12:27:00.000-08:002004-04-01T12:34:04.170-08:00The Emperor (again)...Posted by C
E is busy, and so doesn't post much. (Me, too.) But yesterday he wrote me privately. So that the blog will not remain silent when I am, in fact, writing, I'm posting the part of my response that deals with national politics.
"Bush is the first evil and senseless person to become POTUS because of heredity. Monarchies have dealt with it-- it's not new Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1080063331810861582004-03-23T09:35:00.000-08:002004-03-23T10:32:11.403-08:00The Emperors New Clothes...Posted by C
A post over at Fanatical Apathy got me to thinking. Adam Felber ponders the question of why so many people still think the Emperor is clothed.
It has become pretty obvious to anyone with half a brain who is willing to look at the facts that the Bush administration was negligent regarding the real threat of terrorism pre-911 and that they planned to invadeClarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1079892428565095902004-03-21T10:07:00.000-08:002004-03-24T15:20:30.186-08:00Very bad news for all...Posted by C
Buried in the LA Times yesterday.
A detailed survey of birds and butterflies in Britain shows a population decline of 54% to 71%, a finding that suggests the world may be undergoing the sixth big extinction in the Earth's history, this one caused by humans.And on page one there's an article about how the feds are saying children and pregnant women shouldn't Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1078872080328720982004-03-09T14:41:00.000-08:002004-03-09T14:47:40.170-08:00Only in California...Posted by C
I'm so tired of my state being the political laughing stock of the country.
Some idiots want to give 14 year olds the right to vote.
Personally, I'd like to see the right to operate heavy machinery (ie. drive a car) be extended to only those over 18 years of age.
Thanks to Dirty Greek (who has a different opinion on the matter).
Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1078544568804862932004-03-05T19:42:00.000-08:002004-03-05T21:07:01.826-08:00The Law Firm of Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe...Posted by C
Mark A. R. Keiman is mad about a radio advertisement:
Marijuana is a useful medicine for many conditions. At the Medical Offices of Cheech, Chong, and Tokem, our physicians know how to recommend it.
Unless I get further confirmation from him or somebody else, I say it was satire.
Update: D'oh! The name was a joke on Mark's part, though Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1078541930077131242004-03-05T18:58:00.000-08:002004-03-05T19:05:23.263-08:00Don't crow yet...Posted by C
Karl Rove is still smart. Let's not underestimate him.
Anybody even vaguely liberal is champing at the bit, ready to vote Bush out of office today.
But it's a long time until the election.
Rove and Bush can pander to the base (and I mean base) right now, and for months to come. They're working on having the far right yahoos frothing at the mouth. Once Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1078277094434235732004-03-02T17:24:00.000-08:002004-03-03T08:36:58.200-08:00Arnold the lawbreaker...Posted by C
So Arnold broke the law again. Evidently (KPPC) he exited the voting booth today and told the next person in line to vote for Props 57 and 58. (Those are the "stick it to the kids, not the rich" propostitions on today's ballot.)
You are not allowed to campaign in the polling place. There are prominent signs-- saw 'em myself today.
He should be Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1078276391940890832004-03-02T17:13:00.000-08:002004-03-02T17:16:10.000-08:00Now we've done it...Posted by C
We've added comments and Trackback. We'll see how it goes...
Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1078248620601823092004-03-02T09:30:00.000-08:002004-03-02T16:53:49.233-08:00The Breadwinner Myth...Posted by C
Over at One Good Thing (scroll down to Feb 28) there's a post about The Mommy Myth.
I have a wife, and she's a mother, and she struggles with feelings of inadequacy, so I relate to this post.
Funny thing: I feel inadequate, too. Chronically. Somebody ought to write The Breadwinner Myth.
Which got me to thinking. If I remember my Marx correctly, he wrote Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1077033311564899412004-02-17T07:55:00.000-08:002004-02-17T19:55:50.840-08:00Depressing and frightening...Posted by C
Mark A. R. Kleiman calls it profoundly depressing. And I agree.
According to an ABC News poll, nearly two thirds of Americans believe the stories of Noah's Ark, the parting of the Red Sea, and the 6-day creation to be literally true.
I am reminded of a booklet I've read about Passover. It said that when teaching a very young child child about Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1076797459894053962004-02-14T14:24:00.000-08:002004-02-14T14:26:54.296-08:00Just wondering...Posted by C
If any of my reader(s) happens to know, please email me.
When computing unempolyment figures, is it taken into account that we've had a big increase in the number of persons behind bars?
In other words, if we hadn't started putting more and more people in prison, would unemployment figures be significantly worse than they are?
I suspect the answer is "yes."
If Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1076698937539977382004-02-13T11:02:00.000-08:002004-02-14T14:04:13.920-08:00Where have I been?...Posted by C
It's been a week since my last post. Pretty shabby. And in a week where the blogs have probably received more page views than any week thus far, thanks to the growing AWOL, Plame, and WMD scandals.
I've just been too happy!
Here's my story:
I wasn't blogging yet. But it was last summer when my mood began to improve.
I had been pretty down-in-the-dumps Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1076085618058804792004-02-06T08:40:00.000-08:002004-02-06T08:44:59.670-08:00Gropinator declares...Posted by C
...Ronald Reagan Day in California.
It's the day we fondly remember "$640 Pentagon toilet seats, ketchup as a vegetable, firing striking air traffic controllers, Iran-Contra, double-digit unemployment, astrologers in the White House and influence peddling." (Representative John D. Dingell, Democrat of Michigan.)
Ah, Ronnie. And let me add: Cruise missiles inClarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1075502668942346492004-01-30T14:44:00.000-08:002004-01-30T14:49:14.700-08:00Still at it...Posted by C
Evidently someone in the White House doesn't read my blog. Imagine that. If he did, he'd have to hang his head in shame and quit practicing the smarmy tactics I've talked about here before.
Dubya today:And given the events of September the 11th, we know we could not trust the good intentions of Saddam Hussein, because he didn't have any. Never mind that it's a stupidClarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1074792046022790672004-01-22T09:20:00.000-08:002004-01-22T14:09:41.686-08:00Skull v Bones?...Posted by C
So Kerry and Dubya are both members. Heard this on Democracy Now this morning.
Update: Evidently, via tbogg, Barbara has not been "tapped." Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1074791562368414162004-01-22T09:12:00.000-08:002004-01-22T13:12:00.373-08:00Dubya's largesse...Posted by C
I couldn't watch the SOTU address, can never listen to that man speak.
Via tbogg it seems the president said this:
This year, some 600,000 inmates will be released from prison back into society. We know from long experience that if they can't find work, or a home, or help, they are much more likely to commit crime and return to prison. So tonight, I propose a Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1074189979217547552004-01-15T10:06:00.000-08:002004-01-15T10:13:00.326-08:00About the Forest... Posted by C.
CalPundit notes that
housing prices in Los Angeles increased 22% in 2002 and 24% in 2003. That's a 50% increase in 24 months.
Jeez. If I would have bought a house I couldn't afford, for say 300K, racked up 50K in credit card debt in order to eat-- things my mother taught me not to do-- I could have sold the house for 450K, paid off the CC debt and walked awayClarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1073934823199923682004-01-12T11:13:00.000-08:002004-01-12T11:14:50.483-08:00Meet George Bush... Posted by C
Via tbogg
A quote from W:
"No President has ever done more for human rights than I have."
Can you say "megalomania?" I knew you could.
Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1073687034051583332004-01-09T14:23:00.000-08:002004-01-09T14:24:14.250-08:00Why I hate WebLogs... Posted by C.
This is pretty funny.
I don't suppose the irony will be lost on anyone that this person is posting her or his opinions to the web...
I think the case could be made (just as hyperbollically, should one choose) in the other direction: that blogs are good and important.
They are good because some people are writing, thinking, and arguing instead of watching Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1073413071830818842004-01-06T10:17:00.000-08:002004-01-06T10:19:45.570-08:00The S factor Posted by C.
Suburban Guerrilla points to this article on the S (Stupid) factor in explaining much of the popular support for W.
I think this is important to keep in mind. As Robert Anton Wilson wrote somewhere on the implications of IQ statistics (I'm paraphrasing), "Think about how stupid the average person is. Half the population is stupider than that."
That's downright scaryClarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1073409490750732382004-01-06T09:18:00.000-08:002004-01-06T09:23:22.673-08:00This is war. Posted by C
Discourse.net found an AP story outlining how the Labor (read Business) Department is advising employers how to avoid paying overtime, without getting rid of it. Thanks to Atrios for the link.
Somebody oughta make a list of all the working class bashing actions of the W administration to be trotted out whenever a republican (or right-wing pundit) accuses a democrat of Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1072213899445769922003-12-23T13:11:00.000-08:002003-12-23T13:16:17.916-08:00Why we went to war. Posted by C.
CalPundit noted yesterday that nary a warmonger can be found whose mind was changed about the war because no WMDs were found.
So what was the real reason? And why did they all -- every one of them -- feel the need to make up a cover story?
W went to war with Iraq to further the neocon/PNAC agenda (pax americana), and to further his own political career. It's Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1071499847297299652003-12-15T06:50:00.000-08:002003-12-15T06:54:10.696-08:00Bin Laden Sadaam captured. Posted by C.
How exciting.
Lord, that beard. He looked, like, totally unelectable.
It should do as much for Junior's re-election campaign as the capture of Noriega did for his dad's.Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6076513.post-1071436289778194462003-12-14T13:11:00.000-08:002003-12-14T13:13:27.543-08:00There are two kinds of people in the world...Posted by C.
Those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world, and those who don't.
Arnold is one of those people who believe there are two kinds of people in the world: leaders and followers, or big people and little people.
And, of course, he believes he is one of the big people and that Rhonda Miller is one of the little people.
And Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10657954680990308363noreply@blogger.com