Sunday, July 31, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
Zeitgeist
Finally, a movie goes there.
I'm reminded of the unease I felt after debating a right wing christianist who came to my high school to convince a bunch of teenagers that Roe v. Wade was evil.
I was disappointed that my teacher invited this woman into a public school to proselytize for jesus and against women's rights. But I was really unsettled by the anger this whack job expressed to me and others for questioning her positions and beliefs.
That was 1972.
Updated:
Michael Parks is fantastic (and creepy).
A Beacon of Freedom
From here.Word has it that Boehner retired to redraft the bill and win some teatard votes. The worst bill in American history amended by a sleep-deprived guy under tremendous stress, to please the stupidest group of legislators in American history. What could possibly go wrong?
This is all so depressing.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.....
If the Democrats agree to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid to resolve the fake, fabricated, abstract debt ceiling issue, they will be pilloried by the cynical, ratfucking right and abandoned by the frustrated, disillusioned left.
W I N N I N G.
Please, don't do it.
W I N N I N G.
Please, don't do it.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
FU (again)
Pious and fetid christian, Rick Perry, has 200+ executions under his belt.
The Texas Execution Information Center website.
Obama, Villager in Chief
"If I’m saying to future recipients of Social Security or Medicare that you’re going to have to make some adjustments, it’s important that we’re also willing to make some adjustments when it comes to corporate jet owners, or oil and gas producers, or people who are making millions or billions of dollars."
July 22, 2011
Let's break this down:
Chicken of the Sea or Fancy Feast?
$20 million quarterly profit or $19.3 million?
Even Steven.
Our President no longer understands what it's like to live in America. For most non- corporate jet owners, there is nothing to adjust.
Policy fail—politics fail.
S C R E W E D.
Friday, July 22, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Winning The Future
Gang of Six bullshit.
From Digby at Hullabaloo.
Oh yeah...were screwed.
"I think that about says it all. This has become the new "middle ground" and it includes devastating cuts to Social Security, the worst of which will fall upon women in their most geriatric years and disabled people who depend upon SSI, more cuts to Medicare and a likely devastating body blow to Medicaid, which also will hit the elderly far worse than anyone realizes. (Learn how to change adult diapers, kids, because that's what you're going to spend your 40s and 50s doing.)"
"But the Democratic party isn't exactly behaving like solid, serious leaders either, no matter how many times they use the words "balanced approach." They are fiddling while Rome burns and the Tea Party is just dancing around the fire throwing gas on the flames."
From Digby at Hullabaloo.
Oh yeah...were screwed.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Very Cool
I became familiar with 3D modeling through a Rona Pondick exhibition I worked on in 2009, but a 3D modeller that can render an object with assembled moving parts is more than just a technological advancement—it's a revolution.
Update:
One hell of a job killer too.
Monday, July 18, 2011
The Grand Bargain
Chris Bowers:
*(pay for tax cuts, and a lot of bombs)
The important millionaire class of politicians and punditry—all of whom will never rely on the social safety net—are bargaining it away to please the very important billionaire class.
We're screwed.
"As you read this, rich and powerful people in Washington, DC are trying to determine not whether they should cut programs designed to help low and middle-income Americans, but by how much they should cut those programs. The rich and powerful people in DC are making these cuts in order to pay for tax breaks they recently gave to rich people and large corporations. Additionally, the cuts are being made at the behest of the lobby organizations and media operations owned by rich people and large corporations.
If that isn't a class war, I don't know what is."
*(pay for tax cuts, and a lot of bombs)
The important millionaire class of politicians and punditry—all of whom will never rely on the social safety net—are bargaining it away to please the very important billionaire class.
We're screwed.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
The Invisible Hand, Unicorns, Democracy, Elves,...
Related update:
"From a series of legal codes favoring creditors, a two-tier justice system that ignore abuses in foreclosures and property law, a system of surveillance dedicated to maximum observation on spending, behavior and ultimate collection of those with debt and beyond, there’s been a wide refocusing of the mechanisms of our society towards the crucial obsession of oligarchs: wealth and income defense. Control over money itself is the last component of oligarchical income defense, and it needs to be as contested as much as we contest all the other mechanisms."From here.
Friday, July 15, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Restore Our Great Nation of Grifters, Charlatans, and Thieves
Unbelievable!
Sad part: 27%-31% of American adults, flailing in a fog of resentment (and bigotry), will respond to this appeal.
You want to celebrate the grand vision of right wing America—the one that's chock full of guns, desperation, and stupid rage?
Go see Taxi Driver.
Grand Bargain Fail (maybe)
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| Unctuous Asshole |
"As I feared, Boehner can't find the votes, doesn't want to run to Hoyer to get them, and has backed out of a commitment to a grand deal. The orange bastard is caught on flypaper and he's willing to set every dollar in the world ablaze to extract himself with his gavel intact. This is the kind of leadership you get from an adulterous drunkard with a record of passing out tobacco lobbyists' checks to his colleagues on the House floor."From here.
Not that anyone on the left wants the Grand Bargain to succeed.
Actually, the 4 trillion dollar deal proposed by Obama is a frightening hand of high-powered poker that could still backfire—and it entirely validates the Republican's dishonest narrative that unemployment is tied to the debt.
Also...Atrios.
"This is because they only care about tax cuts for rich people. A few members might have some idiosyncratic spending concerns, such as "we're too generous to poor people," but basically they just care about tax rates on rich people. That's it."
Saturday, July 09, 2011
Non-Political Monsters
As a kid I was obsessed with the Frankenstein movies. As an adult I grew to appreciate their humor (even though "Son of..." isn't a James Whale picture).
The Inspector's mechanical arm* must have made it incredibly difficult for Basil Rathbone to deliver his lines.
*(monocle cleaning at 7:12)
More...
Friday, July 08, 2011
Thursday, July 07, 2011
Fuck you...too
An incredibly smooth liar.
The clear choice for America's plutocrats, oligarchs, and christian thugs.
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
What Atrios said...
The Horrible Plight Of The Not Quite Rich Enough
Got it?
I'm not going to bother with any of the specifics, but I'll just point out that the sociopathic monsters who write for Pete Peterson's propaganda outlet are unable to make the tiny leap from "life is actually not that easy if you earn $250,000 per year" to "life must be really fucking hard if you only earn $40K per year." Also, too, maybe we shouldn't slash Social Security benefits for old poor people.
Got it?
Monday, July 04, 2011
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