I am shocked – shocked! – that some rich people and corporations gave to the Clinton Foundation instead of the RNC and the Club for Growth.
Category Archives: Thought for the Day
Thought for the Day: 23 May 2015
Why did liberation at gunpoint yield results that differed so radically from what the [Iraq War]’s advocates had expected? Or, to sharpen the point, How did preventive war undertaken by ostensibly the strongest military in history produce a cataclysm?
Thought for the Day: 15 May 2015
Just how goddamn awful does the TPP have to be for Senator Warren to oppose it?
Thought for the Day: 06 May 2015
Brad DeLong has a recent post, The Debate Over the TPP. Commenter Nils:
Can anyone detail the *actual problems* facing international trade, which would be fixed all or in part by TPP? And I don’t mean “my pharmaceutical company isn’t getting to charge as much as it wants to for every dose of its patented products sold in the world.” That’s not a trade problem, it’s a whine.
Thought for the Day: 1 May 2015
Apropos of May Day:
Today, of course, as [self-declared Socialist Bernie] Sanders announced that he would be running for president, the [National Journal] decided to remind Americans that, yes, being a Socialist does in fact make you pretty damn liberal…. What is remarkable about Sanders’s platform is how unremarkable it would sound to any run-of-the-mill Democratic politician 40 years ago, and how moderate it would have sounded to Eugene V. Debs, the last major Socialist candidate for president.
Thought for the Day: 30 April 2015
We have weird standards. Conservatives blew the surplus then cost us 8 million jobs and politicians aren’t ashamed be called conservatives.
– LOLGOP
It’s even worse than that. Shitting on your constituents appears to be a positive if the depth of your ideological commitment is sufficient.
Thought for the Day: 19 April 2015
The one thing that [Sen. Elizabeth Warren] understands that [the chattering classes] don’t care to understand is that the interests of “average Americans” and the needs of “the business community” in the increasingly competitive global argle-bargle are in direct conflict, and will remain so as long as the “business community” continues to combine the essential patriotism of a potato blight with the business plan of the Barbary Pirates.
Thought for the Day: 18 April 2015
When you’re scientifically literate, the world looks different to you. It’s a particular way of questioning what you see and hear. When empowered by this state of mind, objective realities matter. These are the truths of the world that exist outside of whatever your belief system tells you.
One objective reality is that our government doesn’t work, not because we have dysfunctional politicians, but because we have dysfunctional voters. As a scientist and educator, my goal, then, is not to become President and lead a dysfunctional electorate, but to enlighten the electorate so they might choose the right leaders in the first place.
Thought for the Day: 11 April 2015
Two snowmen are sharing a meal. One looks up and says, “Ugh. This tastes like boogers.” The other replies, “It’s carrot cake.”
Thought for the Day: 10 April 2015
I should listen to Tavis Smiley more often – listen or watch.