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Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:41 am
2 is a higher number than my preferred number of "zero," and it's still lower than 30. I think you can summarize a lot of the Obama Era in t...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/06/12 6:47 am
Who has the irrational hatred of POTUS ? Greenwald or Paul ? Which POTUS ? Bush? Obama ? Lincoln ? Madison ? Any ideas about why ? rather...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/05/12 1:30 am
Good post! I've stopped by a few times, but never commented. I think the key phrase in assessing Greenwald is "overcompensates" and he does...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 2:24 pm
I dislike the term "emoprog." It confuses musical politics with movement politics.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:19 pm
For the same reason Ron Paul approved those newsletters.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:18 pm
And vote. No vote, no voice and no right to criticize the government, because the sorry a-holes who don't vote enable whichever government t...
Category Archives: Israel
Culture Wars Have Consequences
Remember those Orthodox riots in Jerusalem two years ago? Submitted, an exercise in creative editing with a Haaretz article: More than 4,000 people say they will attend a march in Beit Shemesh Alexandria, Egypt this week to protest the exclusion … Continue reading
Morgan Spurlock Finds the Original Culture War
The Orthodox Jews shoving a documentarian around in this video are convinced their cause is righteous. They wage kulturkampf through a high birth rate, enforce epistemic closure in their community, and hold outsize political power. They have no shame about … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Glenn Beck in Israel
The crying clown has moved on from his late FOX Noise gig to take part in the anti-peace process, where he got heavy applause from Knesset culture warriors: [Beck] was serious when he said, “Here is the truth (about the) … Continue reading
Israeli Audacity of Stopping Hope
I picked Montgomery, Alabama over being on this boat. Thankfully, CNN still does some international reporting and has a correspondent on board the Audacity of Hope. If you’ve been following Max Blumenthal’s excellent reporting, you’ll know that Israel has been … Continue reading
Israel Isolated
More than the optics have changed. Today’s meeting is between Israel and its last, most important friend; the context of their relationship has changed. This is going to make culture warriors lose their minds. In fact, they already are. Angelo … Continue reading
Saturday Afternoon TV: Hijacked History
I’d hoped to be able to include Ted Koppel’s piece at BBC America tonight, but it’s not available in embeddable format yet (note to BBC: why?). So here’s Ted Koppel in his WaPo op-ed the other day: The attacks of … Continue reading
A Thousand Words
So this photo went out on the wire: And Reuters cropped it: Which Little Green Footballs’ Charles Johnson calls “proof” that (A) activists were armed with knives (B) Reuters is cropping photos for propaganda purposes, i.e. like FOX News. Problem: … Continue reading
Flotilla Of The Tennessee
As this posts, I am actually away from the computer floating on a river. A canoe flotilla will be gathering trash in Tennessee this weekend; great fun and camping will be experienced. I might come home to a different world … Continue reading
Flotilla Fallout
The United States is sticking with Israel, but at what price to Netenyahu? At FP, Abu Aardvark speaks: This crisis — and it is a crisis — is the fairly predictable outcome of the years of neglect of the Gaza … Continue reading
Prepare to Repel Boarders
The national mythology of a plucky, lucky people determined in the face of overwhelming odds hasn’t been true of Israel since the 1970s, yet it still warps American reactions to events over there. Consider the following videos which “prove” the … Continue reading
Obama and Israel
What was I saying about a radical shift in the optics of US-Israel relations? Oh, yes: they’ve been turned on their head. From AP via HuffPo: In an exceptional step, no photographs of Netanyahu’s meeting Tuesday with President Barack Obama … Continue reading
