The Right Approach
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »The right approach: "Part of what I think Geraldine Ferraro is doing, and I respect the fact that she was a trailblazer, is to participate in the kind of slice and dice politics that's about race and about gender and ...
The Banality of Mamet
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Mamet's "Why I am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'": A long, boring, unedited piece, and what do we get at the end? at the end of the day, they are the same folks we meet at the water cooler (A great way ...
A Conspiracy of Old Women: Geraldine Ferraro and Identity Envy
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest, ferraro, identity politics, racism | No Comments »We know that old women are Clinton's demographic. The question is whether we want them ruling the country. I think that's the deeper subtext of the recent stupidity of Geraldine Ferraro: it's not so much racism and as competing identity politics: ...
Humanizing Spitzer
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Cramer breaks up. As always, we're shocked--shocked!--that someone's sexual impulses run deeper than their public persona.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Humanizing Spitzer", url: "http://www.ketchupandcaviar.com/of-interest/humanizing-spitzer/" });
Monitor Thyselves
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »If you're one of those people who waits for tragic self-destruction and then cozies up to it in self-righteous revulsion, then ....SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Monitor Thyselves", url: "http://www.ketchupandcaviar.com/of-interest/morons-monitor-thyselves/" });
Spitzer Violates the White Slave Traffic Act
Monday, March 10th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »The only part of this that interests me, from Scott Horton: The prosecution is opened under the White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910. You read that correctly. The statute itself is highly disreputable, and most of the high-profile cases brought under ...
The Deaning of Obama (Almost)
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Hillary, Obama, Of Interest | 2 Comments »What's happening to Obama in the press, incidentally, is remarkably similar to what happened to Howard Dean (with the exception that Obama is less vulnerable to negative coverage). Dean, like Obama, initially received positive press--not directly, but as a by-product ...
Hillary Must Reads
Friday, March 7th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »I rest my case (for now): http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/9271?in=00:34:15 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-hart/breaking-the-final-rule_b_90420.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-david/on-the-red-phone_b_90338.html http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=ba30ff16-a5af-4035-a883-cf15ffee406c SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Hillary Must Reads", url: "http://www.ketchupandcaviar.com/of-interest/hillary-must-reads/" });
Hillary Contra Obama – In Five Acts (unabridged version)
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Hillary Contra Obama – In Five Acts Act I, Scene I: Enter Clinton, stage right, wearing coronation robes—grand, radiant, inevitable. In the beginning the thought of not winning no more occurs to her than the thought of being a peasant occurs ...
Pundit Shamanism
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »One small not on the press and pundits: part of their pseudoscience of political strategy is to assign causes to events. They do this with a disregard for analysis that amounts to superstition. Hillary won last night because of her ...
Political Wankery (the latest debate and the “Oh SNAP!” nihilism of our public discourse)
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Clinton, Obama, Of Interest | 2 Comments »While Anderson Cooper does his vacuous deer-in-headlights-who-cares-about-people routine, Keith Olbermann (who's show Countdown is actually very good), approaches yesterday's debate with the same dreary cynicism as his mischievous mentor, the meat-headed Tom Sawyer of politics, Chris Mathews. The debate was ...
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia (Demonizing Iran)
Monday, September 24th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Today the consensus is that Iran is "evil", Ahmadinejad is a hate-monger and madman, Iran is an exporter of terrorism and is arming insurgents against American troops. Of course, Iran wasn't a "terrorist nation" when Reagan sold it arms, but ...
Bush and the Primacy of the Political
Friday, September 14th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Bush's speech is also a typical reflection of his utter disregard for the truth. That Petraeus' conclusions were predestined we all understand. (I've been hearing so much about "Petraeus and Crocker" that I wondered if they finally sent the Miami ...
An Engagement Beyond His Presidency
Friday, September 14th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwAwxEX1aWk] It's hard not to hear in optimistic stories of the "surge" the ironic evidence of the original crime, the obliteration of Iraq. Bush's speech: Brazenly reminds us of the initial failure to establish security that destroyed the future of Iraq Rubs salt ...
Philosophers are Here to Save the Day! (Fish and Lilla on Liberalism)
Monday, September 10th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Stanley Fish objects to the claim that "liberalism is not a substantive ideology but a political device that allows many ideologies to flourish." He argues that liberalism comprises a conception of the good life. That is at the same time ...
The Surge as Mythology
Sunday, September 9th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »That there is a serious discussion of whether or not the Surge in Iraq is a success is a victory for the Bush administration. Because discussing the nature of something requires you believe it to be real. In this case ...
Wolfowitz
Friday, April 13th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »“I now direct you to agree to a proposal which includes the following terms and conditions,” Mr. Wolfowitz wrote. “You should accept immediately her offer to be detailed to an outside institution of her choosing while retaining bank salary and ...
The British Soldiers
Friday, April 6th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »Here's their account: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/06/sailors.statement/index.html?eref=rss_latest Understandable. I think the incident is at a fundamental level much more embarrassing to the Iranians, because it shows the disorganization of their government and how certain renegade military elements have powers that transcend government policy considerations; and ...
Creepy Iran Kidnapping Roundup
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 Posted in Iran, Of Interest | No Comments »Apparently the Iranians have been reading Semour Hersh articles and aren't yet satisfied that they've given Britain and the U.S. enough excuses for a round of bombing. The whole "we'll show you by making you our captive photo-op guests and have ...
Bukowski reads “The Secret of My Endurance”
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