May 2013
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April 2013
4 posts
“Bangladeshis are a people squalid enough that death is an acceptable randomly...”
– Et tu, Matthew Yglesias?
March 2013
4 posts
This is what happens when I’m on the subway...
February 2013
9 posts
“Ideological meaning and agendas are not incidental to thrilling films and...”
– Reuters’ culture critic Alissa Quart [via GG, obvs]
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WatchNailed it.
“[The] very nature of the presidency of the United States at its core has become...”
– Charles P. Pierce | A Bad Idea Gets Worse - Esquire
“Not all of it was honest and not all of it was fair and not all of it was...”
– said the writer of a dishonest, unfair, incorrect screenplay about his critics. ‘Zero Dark Thirty’s’ sharp turn from Oscar glory - latimes.com
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WatchAmen to all of this dude.
January 2013
3 posts
Listen
John Brennan's extremism and dishonesty rewarded... →
“Here we see the ethos and morality of imperial Washington: past support for torture and rendition does not disqualify one for a top national security position; only an extramarital affair can do that.”
December 2012
6 posts
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This "said no one, ever" thing is going away in...
right?
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ZERO CONSCIENCE IN “ZERO DARK THIRTY” | Jane Mayer →
In [Bigelow’s] hands, the hunt for bin Laden is essentially a police procedural, devoid of moral context. If she were making a film about slavery in antebellum America, it seems, the story would focus on whether the cotton crops were successful.
BUS YOUR OWN TRAY: Guns. →
spiegelman:
Let’s get one thing straight. The Bill of Rights is not a moral doctrine. It’s the product of a negotiation. The negotiation happened 223 years ago, when different concerns were on the table, when evil existed but didn’t walk into a school and murder 18 children. Rights are the product of politics, they are not bestowed upon you by God, and the Founding Fathers were representatives...
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November 2012
4 posts
The lessons of tuition inflation —... →
Mike Konczal flags a Department of Education study that shows that the government earns $1.14 back for every dollar it loans to students and asks, “What’s a good word for the opposite of a subsidy? Whatever it is, student loans are that”.
it’s called an INVESTMENT. Low interest student loans are a public sector investment in the country’s future. More like this.
Petraeus scandal is reported with compelled... →
[It] is truly remarkable what ends people’s careers in Washington - and what does not end them. [ ] Petraeus has left a string of failures and even scandals behind him: a disastrous Iraqi training program, a worsening of the war in Afghanistan since he ran it, the attempt to convert the CIA into principally a para-military force, the series of misleading statements about the Benghazi attack...
October 2012
16 posts
Joe Klein's sociopathic defense of drone killings... →
The reason American 4-year-olds are in danger from terrorism - to the very limited extent they are - is precisely because those empowered in US government and media circles think like Joe Klein does. Soulless cheerleaders for indiscriminate killing like Joe Klein […] are the reason there is a terrorism risk to Americans, not the solution for that risk.
WatchG.I. Joe: Drone Operator!
Just in time for the holidays!
WatchLet’s Always Be Friends (demo) by College Kids.
Jim Lehrer: Useless →
Sorry, immigration, reproductive health, LGBT civil rights, the environment, campaign finance, the drug war, and voting rights: None of you matter as much as Simpson effing Bowles! All the cosigns.
“The problem is joblessness, and the problem is very concrete. You don’t have to...”
– Noam Chomsky (via azspot)
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While we're waiting for this enormous piece of... →
thedailywhat:
Lone Ranger Movie Trailer of the Day: Johnny Depp is Native American spirit warrior Tonto, Armie Hammer is John Reid — “a man of the law, a legend of justice” — and Tom Wilkinson, William Fichtner, Barry Pepper, James Badge Dale, Ruth Wilson, and Helena Bonham Carter also star.
The Lone Ranger is out July 13, 2013.
[iwatchstuff]
September 2012
11 posts
Our Bipartisan Apathy Toward Civilian Drone Deaths... →
There’s no question that fighting a counterinsurgency is hard. And it’s fundamentally different from fighting a conventional war because it’s difficult to separate militants from civilians — something that insurgents explicitly count on. But even if you accept drone strikes as a legitimate part of counterinsurgency, and even if you accept that civilian casualties are an inevitable part of that,...
