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Opinion
It’s Witch-Hunt Season
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: August 29, 2010
In a repeat from the 1990s, the Republicans appear bent on ugliness and paralysis.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Christian Right Bigots Are Hiding the Truth -- Early Christians Condoned Gay Marriage | | AlterNet
Christian Right Bigots Are Hiding the Truth -- Early Christians Condoned Gay Marriage | | AlterNet
An icon from St. Catherine’s monastery on Mount Sinai illustrates this point. It shows two robed Christian saints getting married. Their pronubus (official witness, or “best man”) is none other than Jesus Christ.
It is a standard Roman portrayal of a wedding. The difference: the two saints are both male, Fourth Century Christian martyrs, Saint Serge and Saint Bacchus, close friends in the Roman army who were purportedly singled out for their secret adherence to Christianity before being tortured and killed.
The Regressive Antidote: David Michael Green on Politics
An Excerpt:
originally posted August 28, 2010: "Our Bloody Valentine"
"But the governing class has gotten really good at how to get the public out of the decision-making loop, overcoming the infuriating inconvenience of the few shreds of democracy remaining in the system, in order to continue feeding the military-industrial complex all the blood and bodies it requires for its sustenance. The Masters of War (as Bob Dylan aptly called them) got twenty years of good mileage out of Vietnam, and then only had to wait less than a decade for Reagan to come in and re-open the floodgates of spending. Nevertheless, I’m sure they were quite spooked that the public finally found a way to shut down the war and deny them their booty. So they figured out that – by killing the draft and saddling an all-volunteer military with outrageous burdens, by completely coopting the media, by giving the public tax cuts instead of traditional wartime tax increases, by banning Dover Air Force Base photos of the war dead, and by scaring the living shit out of the Democrats in Congress – they could still have their wars and more or less no one would notice. Which is pretty much how it has gone down. The vast majority of Americans are as insulated from America’s wars as they are from the ones in Central Africa. Iraq might as well be Upper Volta for all it impacts the daily lives of most Americans."
originally posted August 28, 2010: "Our Bloody Valentine"
"But the governing class has gotten really good at how to get the public out of the decision-making loop, overcoming the infuriating inconvenience of the few shreds of democracy remaining in the system, in order to continue feeding the military-industrial complex all the blood and bodies it requires for its sustenance. The Masters of War (as Bob Dylan aptly called them) got twenty years of good mileage out of Vietnam, and then only had to wait less than a decade for Reagan to come in and re-open the floodgates of spending. Nevertheless, I’m sure they were quite spooked that the public finally found a way to shut down the war and deny them their booty. So they figured out that – by killing the draft and saddling an all-volunteer military with outrageous burdens, by completely coopting the media, by giving the public tax cuts instead of traditional wartime tax increases, by banning Dover Air Force Base photos of the war dead, and by scaring the living shit out of the Democrats in Congress – they could still have their wars and more or less no one would notice. Which is pretty much how it has gone down. The vast majority of Americans are as insulated from America’s wars as they are from the ones in Central Africa. Iraq might as well be Upper Volta for all it impacts the daily lives of most Americans."
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
I love this! Fuck the Government!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-23/the-orwell-project-hasan-elahis-anti-terrorism-art/
One Muslim artist decided responded to his mistaken FBI investigation by creating an online record of his every move, meal, and travel. An excerpt from Amitava Kumar’s book on global reactions to the US war on terror.
If you don’t want to be sent in shackles to be interrogated in a shed in Guantánamo, you can photograph every meal you eat and every urinal you use and upload it immediately on your website. A GPS-based device on your phone can broadcast on the site your exact location at any given time of day or night. You can make public your phone records as well as every purchase you make on your debit card. You can adopt this form of self-surveillance as a strategy not so much because you know that the government monitors your movements, but because it gets things wrong. That is why it is the government. You can monitor yourself much more accurately.
One Muslim artist decided responded to his mistaken FBI investigation by creating an online record of his every move, meal, and travel. An excerpt from Amitava Kumar’s book on global reactions to the US war on terror.
If you don’t want to be sent in shackles to be interrogated in a shed in Guantánamo, you can photograph every meal you eat and every urinal you use and upload it immediately on your website. A GPS-based device on your phone can broadcast on the site your exact location at any given time of day or night. You can make public your phone records as well as every purchase you make on your debit card. You can adopt this form of self-surveillance as a strategy not so much because you know that the government monitors your movements, but because it gets things wrong. That is why it is the government. You can monitor yourself much more accurately.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
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