Archive for January 21st, 2009
Quote of the day
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009From Chris Floyd: What would happen if we simply treated all of these greasy pole climbers as ordinary human beings—"poor, bare, forked animals" like the rest of us—instead of turning them into fantasy figures imbued with embodiment and magic and goodness? The only extraordinary thing about them—their craving for dominion over ...
I pledge…
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009...to be of service to Barack Obama... ...to be a servant to our president and all mankind. That is some scary and disgusting shit. Hat tip to one of Radley Balko's commenters for a working link to a video of this celebrity pukefest: MySpace Celebrity and Katalyst present The Presidential Pledge
Obama’s nationalism and socialism
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009Partly because I like quotations so much and partly because I haven't perused many blags recently, my favorite blag post of the last several days was this one by Michael Rozeff. He compares the unifying, nationalistic theme of Obama's four-year presidential campaign to the ideas and slogans of the Nazis. ...