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"Politics is the art of the possible" - Otto von Bismarck
Glenn Greenwald: An Interview with The Art of the Possible
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an anti-AOTP book: The Predator State by Galbraith Jr.
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Pour Your Misery Down on Me
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Who would Hayek vote for if he were alive today?
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Gabriel Nathan Schwartz, a (single) Denver attorney and delegate to the Republican National Convention, while there was drugged and robbed of lots ‘n lots of expensive stuff by a lovely lady he invited to his hotel room. Such is the context for this story, about which I could give a damn. What makes me sick is that when asked what McCain would do for our nation, this poor, pitiable crime victim declared:
Though I’m no Greenwald, I recognize that my sentences have a tendency to stretch themselves out in leisurely fashion. Still, an average sentence length of 60 words? Those old guys were just wanking.
You know, call me a naive youth, but I’d been holding out a little hope that Barack Obama’s weaselly hedging on the new (awful) FISA bill was just a tactic to allow him to mitigate the risk of voting against a bill the White House, the RNC, and the McCain campaign is suggesting could be the difference between whether hard-working Americans live or die. I.e., Obama could have been trying to make himself sound like the voice of centrist, moderate, non-ideological wisdom, emphasizing his support for the bill in general and expressing his opposition to telecom immunity sotto voce, so that when it came up for a vote, he could claim that the immunity-free legislation he supported was a sensible compromise, and that the Republicans were extremists who insisted on getting 100% of what they wanted or else they’d walk. That might not have been a very effective tactic, given that Steny Hoyer has already quite voluntarily allowed the Republicans to frame their 99% non-compromise as a centrist, moderate, non-ideological compromise, but hey, it would have been consistent with Obama’s usual manner of positioning himself when he takes the liberal side in a lost cause. (Cf. his vote against confirming John Roberts on the Supreme Court.)
Ross Douthat’s logic is ingenious when he explains how watching pornography is “on a moral continuum with adultery,” but I don’t think he goes far enough. For just as “a lot of people would say” there is “similarity between having sex with a prostitute while you’re married and paying to watch a prostitute perform sexual acts for your voyeuristic gratification,” there is also similarity between “having sex with a prostitute” and having sex with your spouse. Hey, it’s sex, right? The prostitute’s gender may well be your spouse’s gender (odds go down - ahem, sorry - you’re a Republican politician), which is one level of similarity. You, the prostitute and your spouse are all God’s children. And when we move beyond prostitution to intimate extramarital relations, we probably find between you and your concubine kinds of intimacy and tenderness that strongly resemble the feelings you have or used to have for your spouse. The conclusion is inescapable: just as watching hardcore pornography is “the equivalent of having an actual affair,” having an actual affair is the equivalent of monogamy.
“I’d rather we blow up the whole world than surrender it to Islam.” And crazy Pam Atlas provides this graphic to underscore her point:
Sen. John McCain finally threw Rev. John Hagee and Hagee’s endorsement under the bus when it was revealed by a number of sources, including Sam Stein at HuffPo, that Hagee sermonized in the 90s about Hitler as God’s glorious tool of righteousness (Stein has the audio, so one may listen for oneself): (more…)