Monthly Archives: January, 2011
Revolutionary Wave: the Crack in American Exceptionalism
A spectre is now haunting Northern Africa and the Middle East–the spectre of the collapse of the American-aligned Arab Nation State. What started from a single act of self-immolation by … Continue reading
Obama’s New Rulez: Casting “Planning Against Competition” as “Competitiveness”
An operating principle I articulate on this blog is that Capitalism is undergoing a regime change. In American history, one can loosely identify the following capitalist regimes: (1) The Hamiltonian … Continue reading
The Triumph of Incoherence
Whenever I read Andrew Sullivan declare the triumph of something, I prepare for the cognitive dissonance to follow. He is a master in that art. So, what is one to … Continue reading
Ian Fletcher’s Purposeful Delusion
Ian Fletcher, Adjunct Fellow at the San Francisco office of the U.S. Business and Industry Council, has taken lately to calling libertarians Anti-American and delusional. The point of contention is … Continue reading
Libertarians vs Progressives
ED Kain thinks libertarians and progressives have a hard time understanding truly where the other is coming from. One suggestion: I think we can do without knuckleheads babbling about the … Continue reading
Things I’m afraid of, things I’m not afraid of
Writes Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist Tom Toles: You can wish all you want to be left alone to live your life free of the heated breath of big government, but come … Continue reading
Social Network Platforms and Subversive Politics
Jesse Walker at Reason expresses skepticism concerning the branding of the Tunisian Revolution as a WikiLeaks Revolution. I noted yesterday that some pundits have been calling the Tunisian revolt a … Continue reading
Tunisia: “The First WikiLeaks Revolution”
Unfortunately, I haven’t been keeping up with the news the past week because I’ve boycotted the cultural war “24 hours of hate” propaganda being broadcast by the largely Pravda American … Continue reading
Blackwater is the Yglesias Fantasy
I’m with Charles Davis on this one. I suppose it may a point of debate whether mockery or utter disdain should be hurled at Yglesias’ suggested synergy of a quasi-military … Continue reading
Only a crazy person would bother to waste the ammo
I’m “borrowing” the title of my post from a blog entry at Stop Me Before I Vote Again: Now I don’t approve of shooting legislators. Don’t get me wrong. Hell, … Continue reading
