Sunday, December 13, 2009

Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - My Friend the President: "In other words, the Leave-Obama-Alone protestations posted by Sullivan are fairly representative of the genre. How far we've fallen from the declaration of Thomas Jefferson: 'In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.'

With regard to many of the above-referenced criticisms -- as well as ones I haven't included -- there are reasonable disputes over the validity of the critiques, and many Obama defenders voice those on substantive grounds. Obama admirers like the ones featured above are a minority, albeit a vocal one. But far too many have an emotional attachment to him and investment in him that is deeply unhealthy, particularly when it translates into intolerance for the very act of objecting to his decisions and policies, as one sees on vivid display in the responses Sullivan posted."

I expect the Olbermanns, Maddows, Stewarts, and Colberts of the world to hold the Obama administration to the same standard they held the previous administration of crooks and con-men. We should all expect and demand a return to the rule of law.

Labels: Obama, progressivism

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Friday, October 16, 2009

FORA.tv - Noam Chomsky: Philosophies of Language & Politics: The Supreme Court will consider ruling corporations have the right of free speech like natural persons, effectively allowing them to buy elections directly. Meanwhile, Democrats and Republicans try to prove they each are more savage than the other by emphasizing how they want to deny healthcare to undocumented aliens. And by "undocumented aliens" we mean "actual human beings."

Labels: progressivism

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Friday, September 25, 2009

Ralph & Ayn: "
The other day, browsing at the local B&N, I came across an alarmingly thick novel written by Ralph Nader, and now the New Yorker takes a closer look at this development. The book — Nader eschews the term novel for it; prefers the hilariously oxymoronic “a practical utopia” — is called Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!. (The exclamation point is a part of the official title and “super-rich” is even underlined on the front cover, leading me to believe the novel — sorry, the practical utopia may have been ghostwritten by an 11-year-old girl.)

This is, as far as I can tell, the final step in Nader morphing into the left’s Ayn Rand. For instance, the naming department: Not cowed by the difficulty of beating Rand’s Ragnar Danneskjöld, Nader’s stand-in for the real world’s already-goofily-named Grover Norquist is “a conservative evil genius named Brovar Dortwist.” (The magazine deserves a major prize for coaxing this from Norquist: “I have warm fuzzies for [Nader] on a number of levels.”) But surely Nader can’t match Rand’s imagination when it comes to outlandish blueprints for ideological wish fulfillment? Well, check out this sentence fragment: “Yoko Ono, who in the book invents a logo called Seventh-Generation Eye that causes millions of people suddenly to shed their political apathy . . .”

Oh, my. The book is ranked 166 on Amazon as I write this, so it appears people are actually reading it."

I saw this the other day and thought maybe it was a joke, so didn't post it.  Now it's showing up all over and doesn't seem to be a hoax.  As ridiculous as it sounds, it can't be as ridiculous as Objectivist fiction.  Can it?

Labels: Books, progressivism

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Friday, August 21, 2009

"Meet The Press" Draws Most Viewers Since April On Maddow's Debut Appearance

Labels: progressivism, TV

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Thursday, August 20, 2009

3 Bonedaddy Posts! Scroll Down ... I almost missed them in my latest flurry. I like the letter to the editor linked in there. Didn't take long for the birther/teabagger crowed to start in the comments. I'm tempted to register at courant.com as "Barney Frank Pwns Teabaggers" to ask on which planet they spend most of their time.

Labels: Conservative Goons, progressivism

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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Rachel Rules: It's shameful the way most "journalists" on shows like Meet the Press let goons like Armey spout off without challenging them in any meaningful way. It would never occur to me to make MtP appointment TV but, if Rachel is going to be on again, I will.

Labels: Conservative Goons, progressivism, TV

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Sunday, July 05, 2009

Independence Days - Al Franken and the Odd Politics of Minnesota - NYTimes.com

Labels: progressivism

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