VIA Why Americans Don’t Care — Big Think.
How Freedom Rings
Funny isn’t it, how freedom rings. We slaughtered Indians in this land of the free — to make it our democracy. They slaughtered a tyrannical demagogue, a mass murderer who made political dissent reason for execution. Is the barbarous murder of the leader of such a vile regime wrong? Murder …
The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class Circa 2007
via Balloon Juice Professor Warren, in her capacity as a specialist in bankruptcy law, uses actual facts & statistics to back up her Cassandra predictions. Despite the Burkean vapors of Brooks & Doubthat, she pins the decline of the American middle class not to our moral decay and piggish consumerist …
There is Nothing Like Good Satire
President Obama at the 2011 White House Correspondent’s Dinner. A must be for a morning laugh, great satire. It’s well worth watching the whole thing. His writers are stellar. I had to watch this morning. I didn’t get to go, as somehow my invitation got lost in the mail again. …
