A Tired, Intellectually Exhausted And Enfeebled Mere Coalition Of Disparate Interest Groups Tries Improv Narrative And Political Action
2010/10/02 By 4 Comments
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Job No. 1 — Juxtapose
New York Crisis reveals real center of American power. Interesting, no – even as juxtaposition. Although, like Shanghai, we too have always felt NYC was far more important to Amerikuh than the city built on a swamp. So when the City faces a full blown crisis, we take it seriously. U.S. strength despite the Military [...]
Baroque Entitlement: The *Permanent* National Security State
What we’ve been saying for 6-7 years now. Thank goodness it’s finally *news*. Obama will do something.
Wisconsin Radicalism – Coup D’Etat, Now With Extra Remorse
Those clever journalists – they’ve figured out the Movement radicalism is not about political pluralism. Again. That the ‘Southern Model’ is the template now imposed from above in the North? OK Contestants, here’s the question: ‘When has the Movement ever been about political pluralism?’ People in Wisconsin now regret electing Walker. Too bad. As they [...]
Winning The Future – The Bunker’s Latest Baby
With all the grim news lately, the Stiftung decided it was up to us to win the future and add to the velocity of money. So we shut off the ‘news’ and brought a new baby home to the bunker. Please join us in welcoming this Les Paul Standard Traditional Pro. Maddening times demand monster [...]
Reason # 1,249 ‘The Left’ [sic] objectively deserves to get crushed into pulp – constantly deploying the facile Eugene Robinson for incisive, cutting edge political commentary. Convince us we’re wrong. We dare you.
Just for fun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=1CWaUM3kxfA&feature=related
That link got mangled – we meant to link to the Mean Joe Green commercials
This is one of the best commercials we recall from our younger days – after watching this, we half imagine ourselves watching the Steelers crush the Giants on very cold day – then opening the Daily News to read some Billy Martin speculation about the next Yankee season – then the funny pages, and some story about Carter telling America to turn the lights out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=beZp3fmOW-8&feature=related