February 2012
1 post
Shut Up, David Brooks: Shock me like a Murraycane →
shutupdavidbrooks:
I was wondering why DB has such a Boehner for Charles Murray’s new book. I didn’t have to wonder for long, thanks to my upper-class Google ethic:
For a book that purports to be dispassionate and data driven, Murray makes the odd decision to create two fictional towns, “Fishtown” and…
January 2012
14 posts
The Videodrome Discothèque Radio Vault Presents:... →
Robert Reich: The Bain of Capitalism →
robertreich:
It’s one thing to criticize Mitt Romney for being a businessman with the wrong values. It’s quite another to accuse him and his former company, Bain Capital, of doing bad things. If what Bain Capital did under Romney was bad for society, the burden shifts to Romney’s critics to propose laws that…
LIFE Classic: Eugene Smith's 'Country Doctor' -... →
For his 1948 feature “Country Doctor” — republished here, in its entirety, for the first time online, with all of the photos and — LIFE magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith spent 23 days in Kremmling, Colorado, shadowing general practitioner Ernest Ceriani. His powerful, intimate images capture in poignant detail the emotional and physical challenges faced by this modest,...
wombatfractal:
I took the drums and guitar off...
December 2011
1 post
Watchthedailywhat:
Follow Up of the Day: Last night, FOX 25’s “undercover reporter” Mike Beaudet made every effort to excuse his shameless smear campaign against popular Mystic Valley Regional Charter School English dept. chair Kevin Hogan.
Hogan, it seems, stared in three gay porn movies while in between teaching jobs last year.
Despite the fact that Hogan hasn’t starred in any adult films this...
November 2011
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October 2011
4 posts
Since the NYPD and Fire Department have just... →
inothernews:
This is intimidation, pure and simple.
With all due respect to police unions complaining... →
inothernews:
Oh, and you’re calling part of Zuccotti Park “the ghetto”? Nice fucking racist touch.
March 2011
5 posts
“Sometimes it is difficult to find words to make a critique when we find...”
– bell hooks, from “Madonna: Plantation Mistress or Soul Sister?” (via gaysagainstgaga)
Watchcraigmacneil:
Charlie Sheen is WINNING
February 2011
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January 2011
8 posts
December 2010
3 posts
November 2010
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September 2010
7 posts
“Hey Tumblr,
We get it. Katy Perry has big tits and she was in a SNL sketch. The...”
– (via ronworkman)
Robert Reich: Republican Economics as Social... →
robertreich:
John Boehner, the Republican House leader who will become Speaker if Democrats lose control of the House in the upcoming midterms, recently offered his solution to the current economic crisis: “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmer, liquidate real estate. It will purge the…
“You know what? Evolution is a myth. …Why aren’t monkeys still evolving into...”
– Tea Party darling and Delaware senatorial candidate CHRISTINE O’DONNELL, being a complete fucking idiotic idiot on a 1998 episode of Politically Incorrect With Bill Maher.
Even Andrew Breitbart seems to think she’s an idiot, for God’s sake.
(via inothernews)
Robert Reich: The Defining Issue: Who Should Get... →
robertreich:
Who deserves a tax cut more: the top 2 percent — whose wages and benefits are higher than ever, and among whose ranks are the CEOs and Wall Street mavens whose antics have sliced jobs and wages and nearly destroyed the American economy — or the rest of us?
Not a bad issue for Democrats to run on…
Robert Reich: The Real Lesson of Labor Day →
Where have all the economic gains gone? Mostly to the top.
Welcome to the worst Labor Day in the memory of most Americans. Organized labor is down to about 7 percent of the private work force. Members of non-organized labor — most of the rest of us — are unemployed, underemployed or underwater. The Labor Department reported on Friday that just 67,000 new…
Watchthedailywhat:
Cry of the Day: 35-year-old Sydneysider Kristian Anderson was recently diagnosed with cancer and is currently undergoing chemotherapy. Despite his illness, he wanted to express his gratitude for all the support he’s received from his wife Rachel, so he made her this special birthday video, complete with cameos by New Zealand Prime Minister John Key and actor Hugh Jackman.
Better...
August 2010
12 posts
Robert Reich: Warning: Why Cheaper Money Won't... →
Can the Fed rescue the economy by making money even cheaper than it already is? A debate is being played out in the Fed about whether it should return to so-called “quantitative easing” – buying more mortgage-backed securities, Treasury bills, and other bonds - in order to lower the cost of…
