Archive for the ‘We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now’ Category
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
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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
Hurry up, meteor
This is not parody: Allegheny College will honor New York Times columnist David Brooks and nationally syndicated columnist Mark Shields as the recipients of the inaugural Prize for Civility in Public Life. Brooks and Shields were selected because of their steadfast civility in their public commentary, perhaps best exemplified by their civil jousting with one [...]
February 20, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 86 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now
How’s That Austerity Thing Working For You?
Just to remember how bad Republican notions that we should cut spending in the midst of a recession, this latest from the Eurozone: The euro zone economy shrank slightly less than expected in the last three months of 2011, but five countries including Italy fell into recession as the sovereign debt crisis discouraged consumers from [...]
February 15, 2012
· Tom Levenson · 20 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Glibertarianism, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now
Susan G. Komen for the Lure and the art of deception
I was about to write a post on this, but as usual, the faster and smarter front pagers beat me to it. My take is this—in the HuffPo column by Laura Bassett, both the Susan G. Komen For the Lure foundation, and the article’s writer Bassett, blame Planned Parenthood for SGKFTL’s own goal, with absolutely [...]
February 6, 2012
· Soonergrunt · 63 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Republican Venality, Schadenfreude, We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now
Instant Komen’s gonna get you
That Komen story from last week came out of nowhere…and now it seems to be gone. I can’t find much about it on news sites today. One way or another, we’ve got to keep the pressure on. I know not everyone likes it when I talk this way, but heads to need to roll. Karen [...]
February 6, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 64 Comments
Posted in: We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now
Komenfraude
Mistermix is right that the pink ribbon branding makes it very, very easy for consumers to avoid products made by companies that continue to sponsor Komen. You can tell Yoplait to drop Komen here on their Facebook page. You can give to Planned Parenthood here. I know not everyone here likes it when I talk [...]
February 2, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 127 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M., We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now
Kind of a drag
A disturbing chart, from Jared Bernstein via K-Thug. In other words, we’re looking at -0.3% in GDP from cuts in state and local budgets alone. The idea with Keynesian economics is that state cuts/expenditure increases get multiplied in terms of overall impact on the GDP, but, even leaving that aside, these numbers are large: Kthug: [...]
January 29, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 52 Comments
Posted in: We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now
If it feels good, do it
I know nothing about macroeconomics, but anyone could tell that the pro-austerity arguments were about how good it feels to tighten one’s other people’s belt, not about any kind of reality-based quantitative analysis of anything (via Atrios): “Even countries with relatively strong public finances such as Germany — the country’s budget deficit fell to just [...]
January 29, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 74 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now
The full Somerby
I find it harder and harder not to sympathize with Robespierre these days (h/t commenter hitchhiker): [T]he food on the plane is crucial. Like the army, the press travels on its stomach and in this regard, Gore was no match for Bush. Gore wanted the snacks to be environmentally and nutritionally correct, but somehow granola [...]
January 16, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 56 Comments
Posted in: We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now
Remember that Barack Obama newsletter?
Fuck you, Young Conor, you entitled no-talent douche: For me, the disconnect between the Ron Paul newsletters, which make me sick, and Paul’s words and actions in public life, which I often admire, put me in mind of the way I reacted when candidate Barack Obama was found to associate with Jeremiah Wright and Bill [...]
December 24, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 103 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment, We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now
Fear is a man’s best friend
A few weeks ago when I was in New York, I had lunch a few tables over from Fareed Zakaria (I was nowhere too fancy, at A Voce Columbus). I thought about walking over to his table and saying “thanks for the Iraq War, you stupid neocon motherfucker”, and I would have if I hadn’t [...]
December 12, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 151 Comments
Posted in: C.R.E.A.M., Hoot-Smalley, We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now
Can I be Frank?
Surely, Frank Luntz must be joking (via): 1. Don’t say ‘capitalism.’ “I’m trying to get that word removed and we’re replacing it with either ‘economic freedom’ or ‘free market,’ ” Luntz said. “The public . . . still prefers capitalism to soshulism (my edit), but they think capitalism is immoral. And if we’re seen as [...]
December 1, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 61 Comments
Posted in: Hoot-Smalley, We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now
Where is my motivation?
I know nothing about psychology, but I’m guessing this proposition is hardly novel: people’s underlying motivations are often misunderstood, even (especially?) by themselves. This is why I can’t believe in rational markets, altruistic Galtians, or impartial pundits. Even if people believe they’re being rational, altruistic, or impartial, there’s a good chance that they’re not, and, [...]
November 30, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 129 Comments
Posted in: We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now, We Are All Mayans Now
Sheblowsalot
When Emma Sullivan began the process of humiliating Sam Brownback and his staff—I wholeheartedly agree with the Jim Newell headline “Tweeting Teen Completes Total Victory over Crybaby Kansas Governor”—I immediately wondered what vapid Village idiot will be the first to use this as pretext to lecture teh kids about rudeness and manners blah blah blah. [...]
November 29, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 159 Comments
Posted in: We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now
Bloomberg-Bayh bitches
Non-partisan, straight reporting at Kaplan. Top “story” right now. Update. This is pretty awesome, on Evan Bayh’s supposed political future: The Washington Post’s Chuck Lane sees a branding possibility. “Quitting the Senate was a no-lose move for the presidentially ambitious Bayh, since he can now crawl away from the political wreckage for a couple of [...]
November 24, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 117 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment, We Are All Baader-Meinhof Now
