As President Obama continues his deliberations about what the hell to do about Afghanistan, this week saw a lot of fuel thrown on the fire: The number of US troops killed by the Taliban hit an all time monthly high. The Taliban showed they could strike anywhere, killing a dozen UN workers in their Kabul headquarters and shelling a five …
Signing betrayal, anti-patriotism, denial, and racism semiotics, n. also called semiotic studies or semiology, is the study of sign processes (semiosis), or signification and communication, signs and symbols, both individually and grouped into sign systems. It includes the study of how meaning is constructed and understood. James Carville, Stan Greenberg and Karl Agne of Democracy Corps did a study of …
AHIP/CEOs swear they will kill every last one of us if they don’t get their way. Ezra Klein In the early-’90s, the tobacco industry commissioned PWC to estimate the economic devastation that would result from a tax on tobacco. The report was later analyzed by the Arthur Andersen Economic Consulting group, which concluded that “the cumulative effect of PW’s methods …
Michael Moore says he’s come to believe “that capitalism is opposite everything that Jesus (and Moses and Mohammed and Buddha) taught.” He says that “all the great religions are clear about one thing: It is evil to take the majority of the pie and leave what’s left for everyone to fight over.”
So here we are, wallowing in our dysfunction. Governed — if you listen to the rabble rousers — by a black nationalist from Kenya smuggled into the United States to kill Sarah Palin’s baby. And yes, I could almost buy their belief that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, only I think he shipped them to Washington, where they’ve been recycled as lobbyists and trained in the alchemy of money laundering, which turns an old-fashioned bribe into a First Amendment right.
Last night at dusk, we walked out along the fishing pier at OB. That’s Ocean Beach. The pier has been here since 1966, and ambles concretely 1,971 feet out into the ocean; some think it may be the longest concrete pier in the world. It also “T”s at its end, which adds 360 feet to the south, and 193 …
Okay, last straw. Fuck Chuck Grassley and the slug he rode in on. (That goes for DINO Senator Claire McKaskill too, who just appeared on Hardball excusing his sorry ass.) Whatever reason President Obama might have had for allowing this guy to hold health care reform hostage via his position on the Senate Finance Committee just vanished. Grassley spells “bi-partisan” …
