You may have heard about the small-scale riots that broke out in London a few days ago, following a 250K person peaceful protest against budget cuts. Crooked Timber contends (and I agree) that the numbers of people protesting (peacefully) in Wisconsin are actually more impressive: I would take this opportunity to point out to my …
Fuck The Middle-Class
Choices: past and future
100 years ago, America was a Galtian paradise. Those in pursuit of capital could do anything they wished and the theft of labor was easy and supported by local, state and federal governments. Lots and lots of very bad things happened. One was the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. 146 workers–women, mostly recent immigrants–died when a fire …
The Old Nit Diddler’s Mississippi miracle…
So Haley Barbour is fixin’ to run for President. In a sane world, his long career as a lobbyists and bagman for our Galtian Overlords would disqualify him out of hand. After all, could a lifetime Washington Insider and bold advocate of fat cats everywhere really win? Maybe. The hotline just moved him up to …
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Koch adds life
The Weekly Standard has a McArdle-length article about the persecution of the Koch brothers by liberal extremists. By all means, click through, the more hits this stuff gets, the more right-wing media will feature the Koch brothers. Conservatives have gotten a lot of mileage out of demonizing George Soros, but at least Soros had the …
A supposedly funny joke I’ll never tell again
I remember James Carville saying of the Paula Jones suit and how he thought conservatives got her to file it that “Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you’ll find”. I thought that was pretty funny and I repeated it every time the Republicans dug someone up to tell some …
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Even the anti-union Stanley Fish
I dislike Stanley Fish’s blogging. For the most part, he comes across as a ridiculous Liebercrat blowhard, a more pedantic, less offensive version of Marty Peretz. But I’m genuinely impressed with what he wrote about Wisconsin, because not many people are willing to admit that they are embarrassed by their earlier beliefs: In over 35 …
Meanwhile in Wisconsin
Principled opponents of government waste: Even though the state is supposedly broke, top officials in Gov. Scott Walker’s team were able to scrape together enough money to give a state job to the woman identified as Sen. Randy Hopper’s girlfriend. Greg Sargent summarizes: Two officials in the Walker administration secured a state job for the …