Archive for the ‘Our Awesome Meritocracy’ Category
Suck on this, Tommy
A pretty awesome put-down of Friedman’s relentless pimping for Americans Elect by Harold Meyerson: If Mitt Romney manages to squeak through with the GOP nomination, there won’t be much political space that Americans Elect could occupy: Wall Street will already have a candidate of its own. But if Santorum is the GOP nominee, Americans Elect [...]
February 23, 2012
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DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 
16 Comments
Posted in: Our Awesome Meritocracy, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment
Civility sells, but who’s buying
Fuck this: Peter Gleick violated a principle rule of the global-warming debate: Climate scientists must be better than their opponents.[...]Taking the high road is not easy or fun. But Gleick and the rest of us who favor decarbonizing the world economy have to be, and should want to be, the adults in the debate. Gleick’s [...]
February 21, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 65 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Our Awesome Meritocracy, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment, We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now, We Are All Mayans Now
The very serious Glenn Beck
I’ve come around to thinking that the Global War On Birth Control is a bad issue for the right. It’s amazing how much establishment media is flogging the winger perspective on it, though. Kaplan today:
February 20, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 79 Comments
Posted in: Our Awesome Meritocracy, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment
Next You’ll Tell Me The Sun Is Hot And Made Of Fusion
The National Journal’s latest poll on the federal safety net finds the shocking news that the more money you make, the less you believe America needs as much federal spending on the poor, but not all of the responses were of the Allow Them To Consume Sweet Baked Comestibles variety, either. The survey found a [...]
February 15, 2012
· Zandar · 67 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, C.R.E.A.M., Fables Of The Reconstruction, Our Awesome Meritocracy, We Are All Mayans Now
Testing America’s Patience
Please tell me again how Mittens is going to pivot to being the Sensible Centrist Leader We Need™ just as soon as he’s the nominee. Please. I need a good laugh on Valentine’s Day. Georgia’s controversial plan to mandate drug testing for all welfare recipients and other beneficiaries of government assistance got a big endorsement [...]
February 14, 2012
· Zandar · 134 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Poor, Our Awesome Meritocracy, Romney of the Uncanny Valley, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
It takes a nation of whiners to hold them back
I may never understand the alchemy with which the invisible hand of the free-market transmutates mooching, looting professors into Moon-mining, job-creating Galtian geniuses: Phil “nation of whiners” Gramm is retiring as Vice Chairman of the Investment Bank at UBS. Perhaps no single person is more responsible for the financial crisis of 2008 and more representative [...]
February 13, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 93 Comments
Posted in: Burkean bells, C.R.E.A.M., Our Awesome Meritocracy
House Of Pain
Foreclosuregate rattles on, and it looks like the banks are going to lose their pound of flesh, in this case, $25-$26 billion over three years, in order to get off the hook for roughly 100 times that in real damage to the economy. The final details of the pact were still being negotiated Wednesday night, [...]
February 9, 2012
· Zandar · 55 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, C.R.E.A.M., Don't Mourn, Organize, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Jump! You Fuckers!, Nobody could have predicted, Our Awesome Meritocracy, the Great American Bubble Machine, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
Is It Only Me…
Or does it seem that every time Mitt Romney manages to (a) move into a statistically meaningless “lead” over President Obama in head to head surveys and/or (b) manages to persuade the Villagers that he’s actually a reasonable human being, he blurts out stuff like this (via TPM): When you have a president encouraging the [...]
January 11, 2012
· Tom Levenson · 106 Comments
Posted in: Our Awesome Meritocracy, Romney of the Uncanny Valley, The Money Party, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
I Get By With a Little Help
Because of the gross incompetence of basically the entire GOP field, the Virginia AG is stepping in to save them from themselves (careful, link to Faux News): Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is intervening in the Virginia presidential primary dispute and plans to file emergency legislation to address the inability of most Republican presidential candidates [...]
December 31, 2011
· John Cole · 62 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Nobody could have predicted, Our Awesome Meritocracy, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment
But you never see the lies that you believe
Esquire (via): There are some truths so hard to face, so ugly and so at odds with how we imagine the world should be, that nobody can accept them. Here’s one: It is obvious that a class system has arrived in America — a recent study of the thirty-four countries in the Organization for Economic [...]
December 26, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 56 Comments
Posted in: Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Our Awesome Meritocracy
Regardless of ideology
Tyler Cowen is one of those libertarians that the Atlantic crowd is always heh-indeeding as some kind of a genius. Whenever one of these widely heh-indeeded types pops into my head, I google their name along with the words “Iraq War”. Sometimes not much of interest comes up, sometimes something comes up from 2007 or [...]
December 22, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 80 Comments
Posted in: Our Awesome Meritocracy, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment
Backdoor man
Alex Altman of Time has an excellent article about Americans Elect: [S]ince announcing his intention to seek the Americans Elect nomination in early December, Roemer has come to have reservations about the way the group does business. Formed in response to the depravity of U.S. politics, Americans Elect relies on what is widely seen as [...]
December 22, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 64 Comments
Posted in: Our Awesome Meritocracy, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment
Regulatory disappearing act
DougJ linked to this NYTimes piece on for-profit colleges yesterday. Read the whole thing, or I’ll just give you my summary: the federal government attempted to regulate for-profit colleges, a huge army of lobbyists descended, and the federal government gutted the regulations. Arne Duncan isn’t quoted in the piece, but I’ve been reading up on [...]
December 13, 2011
· Kay · 50 Comments
Posted in: Democratic Cowardice, Democratic Stupidity, Good News For Conservatives, Grifters Gonna Grift, Kochsuckers, Our Awesome Meritocracy, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin., Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, the Great American Bubble Machine, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
I have massive potential for growth
So dumb (via).
December 5, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 103 Comments
Posted in: Our Awesome Meritocracy, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment
Careless people
I’m not sure anyone has made this analogy before, but in any case, it’s spot on: I think Republicans see themselves the way Wall Streeters see themselves—as people to whom nothing really bad could possibly happen, no matter how dire America’s problems are. If they get in, push more tax cuts that increase debt, and [...]
December 5, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 48 Comments
Posted in: Our Awesome Meritocracy, Our Failed Media Experiment, Our Failed Political Establishment
