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Pinochet was bad. Really, really bad. To recap: Minimum number of executions: 3,000 Given that, surely no one would try to defend the regime…but wait here’s John O’Sullivan making an ass of himself in the Chicago Sun-Times back [...] I looked down at the calendar to check the date and, lo and behold, it’s September 11th, the 34th anniversary of the US-backed coup that toppled President Salvador Allende and brought Pinochet to power in Chile. That act of terrorism resulted in thousands of deaths and made political prisoners of thousands more. Of course, 6 [...] Intelligent piece comparing the Clark ’04 and Thompson ’08 candidacies by Publius at ObWi. An excerpt: The Clark and Thompson campaigns have eerily similar pre-histories. Because the party elites and rank-and-file weren’t very happy with the slate of candidates, Clark and Thompson’s names got floated for months. Party members didn’t know much about them, so [...] Look at how happy Oliver Willis is after his team won. I’m jealous. Living in LA, I have no ‘real’ team to root for, as all legitimate possibilities — Chargers, Niners, Raiders, and expat Rams — don’t really feel like my team. So even though I embraced traditional masculine roles and watched football for most [...] Picture from sam brown, explodingdog. Thanks! So the LAist drives me a bit crazy. It’ll have enjoyable articles about LA (such as the ones about downtown drive-in, parkour, 5 dollar guy, or area neighborhoods), but the gems appear admidst a dozen other lesser articles, making it difficult to separate the good from the bad. Then it’ll have 40-picture long photo [...] I love football. I can’t stand most football fans. This shirt reminds me why USC Fans are especially annoying. The lesson of the testimony of A Conservative Convert to Socialized Medicine seems to be that to win the health care debate we need to infect conservatives with life-threatening diseases and send them to France. I’m developing a 7-point plan to make this a reality; will report back. These beliefs are probably why I don’t have very many anarchist friends. Collaborating with liberals to bring about an incrementalist “revolution” is hardly an orthodox approach among the libertarian socialist set. Voting and holding down a bourgeois job in a skyscraper is just plain heretical. I’ve mostly made peace with my “radical [...] Today, Pax Americana displayed its IGNORANCE of the Imminent Resurrection of the USSR. Obviously, The Pax has not been following the Ground-Breaking News out of Once Upon a Time in The West, which provides UnImpeachable Evidence that the collapse of the SOVIET UNION was a Strategic Deception designed to lure the US into a False [...] Mike Meginnis cracks me up: …my preference would be the version that doesn’t require murdering the ruling class and anyone else who gets in our way. At least we could fail humanely. My alternative would be capitalism with limits — allow people to seek profits, but under serious guidelines and with tremendous, progressive taxation. A hybrid of [...] I inadvertently wandered into this show twice, first at the Hammer and then the DMA, which I think of course makes me an expert on Dada art. I enjoyed many of the pieces, though they range from brilliant to 2nd grade macaroni art, and I love the Societe as an artist’s art museum; a [...] I know I see body parts everywhere in buildings, but tell me this doesn’t look like labia: The facility is being design by Norman Foster to be built in New Mexico, and according to Good: Flights would (will?) begin in 2009 and cost somewhere between $100,000 and $200,000. Just to be clear, the ships will take “travelers” [...] All I ask of a movie is that it have a plot. That’s it. If something — anything — is happening, I’ll get sucked in and need to watch to the end. (Most recent example: The Core. Shudder.) My younger brother has been working as a grip on movies (I’m not sure [...] Acceptable neologism? No? Architectural + Morality has a detailed profile of the architect chosen for Bush’s Library at Dallas. Parsing statements by Robert Stern, the chosen ‘tech, Corbusier concludes: …as Mr. Stern has suggested, the architecture will serve as subdued backdrop to what the ideas and themes the President has championed during the [...] Now that I know about this contest, I’m heavily considering having a kid. And becoming vegetarian. And developing ‘cuter’ genes. Anytime I can win vicariously while cementing my dirty hippie credentials, I’m there. |
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