2012 archive
New Year’s Eve Reading 0
Be prepared: Psychology Today explains why beer goggles work.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 2
All that politeness is starting to get silly.
Race Card Review, with Melissa Harris-Perry 0
With a twist:
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Via Raw Story.
Fast Away the Old Year Passes 0
If you can’t laugh at life, it will just make you cry.
Dave Barry looks back on 2012; read it to keep from crying. A nugget:
Merchants of Hype 0
At Asia Times, Ellen Brown comments on coverage of the phony phiscal cliff (emhasis added):
The cliff is really just a trumped-up annual budget discussion. … The most likely outcome is a combination of tax increases, spending cuts and kicking the can down the road.
Yet the media coverage has been “panic-inducing, falling somewhere between that given to an approaching hurricane and an alien invasion. In the summer of 2011, this sort of media hype succeeded in causing the Dow Jones Industrial Average to plunge nearly 2,000 points. But this time the market is generally ignoring the cliff, either confident a deal will be reached or not caring.
The goal of the exercise seems to be to dismantle Social Security and Medicare, something a radical group of conservatives has worked for decades to achieve.
It’s kabuki choreographed by Republicans to hide their radical goals under fantastickal costumes, a man-made crisis constructed to cause panicky concessions because panic!
Priorities 0
Actions speak louder . . . .
Remember, the phony phiscal cliff was a Republican creation. In their world, fund-raising trumps governance.
Responsible Fiscals 0
Driftglass reviews the history of Republican fiscal conservatism over the past 30 years.
It is most instructive.
Facebook Frolics 0
Reunited and it feels so good.
(That’s somewhat similar to how I ended up in Virginia Beach, the one really good thing that has resulted from my signing up for the Zuckerboard.)
The Golden Dukes 0
Talking Points Memo announces this year’s Golden Duke Awards honoring the most egregious scandals of 2012.
Fiscal Cliffnotes 2
Your assigned reading for the weekend:
MarketWatch on who’s to blame.
Dick Polman on Republican unfitness to govern.
Daniel Ruth on longing for the good old days.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Inculcate politeness from an early age.
Great Moments in Liability 0
And it was on the ground floor.
