Last August, we had to endure wanna be cult leader Glenn Beck‘s “Restore Honor” rally on the anniversary and locale of Dr. Martin Luther King’s iconic I Have A Dream speech. Billed as a non-political event with the message that America “has wandered in darkness”, the bullet proof vest wearing Beck told his television audience the following week that “many, many miracles” …
The head of the IMF was pulled from an airplane and arrested for the violent sexual assault of a hotel maid A few days ago in Moral Insanity: Psychopaths & Sociopaths, I compared sociopaths and psychopaths, concluding that the latter are usually high functioning predators that can be found concentrated in the financial industry. I concluded the post with this: That …
Oh, Oh 7 ready to kick some imperialist ass Juan Cole has a great review of the new Bond movie, A Quantum of Solace, on his blog yesterday titled “A Quantum of Anti-Imperialism.” The movie’s plot involves the attempted regime change of a populist Bolivian president (a thinly disguised Evo Morales) who is unwilling to turn his country’s oil and …
