|
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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] What might as well be the Maryland 4th Incumbent’s new slogan, coined by Free State Politics: Al Wynn: He may not believe in anything, but he’ll stick it to his constituents! Unsurprising, given that, the Maryland Republicans love him. Because bucking Democratic constituents demonstrates independence and leadership, while bucking Republican constituents (on immigration reform, say) is undemocratic [...] I’m not the biggest Elliott Smith fan, but this is assholic. All the graffiti artists I know (and by all I mean both) take pains to avoid hitting anything that’s at all valuable — and there’s so many ugly urban surfaces available, it’s hardly very restricting. But it’s this kind of tomfoolery that gives street [...] In a report titled “Building Towers, Cheating Workers,” published last November, HRW catalogued a host of abusive practices including nonpayment of wages, squalid or dangerous working and living conditions, and the denial of proper medical care. It stated that in 2004 alone, more than 800 construction workers died out of an estimated 2.7 million—although the [...] I know this is really old, but it just kills me: Chomsky, on the other hand, spent decades in the beloved Building 20, MIT’s ”Magical Incubator.” He would go back in a minute. In Chomsky’s eighth-floor office, the walls slant in. ”If you look in the corner, you get vertigo,” he says. ”The first time he came [...] So here’s the most biased description of salting you’ll ever see: “Salting” abuse is the intentional placing of trained union professional organizers and agents in a merit shop facility to harass or disrupt company operations, apply economic pressure, increase operating and legal costs, and ultimately put the company out of business. Now why would the goal [...] I agree with the arguments at Ways to End the World (here and here) that Tucker should have to turn in his pundit car keys for his interview at MSNBC. Of course, his assholery mostly exists in the tone of his statements, without a “nappy-headed hos” smoking gun, so I think he’s safe. Sadly. What should [...] Pax Americana asks: Who can forget Lee Siegel’s “Letter to Jon Stewart”? Me. I somehow completely missed this comedy goldmine, and am thus compelled/justified in pulling out the referenced bit: You know, as unappealing as he was, Tucker Carlson never told anybody that they “smelled like ass.” I don’t even know what that means. Is it [...] …and I don’t mean waterproofing. I’m a big fan of Norman Foster’s buildings, including the Hearst Tower at left, but it seems it has a few glitches — such as the glass escalators, which allow visitors a view up the skirts of riders. As if women didn’t have their hands full contending with the [...] Suburban Guerrilla extracts from The Rove Presidency the revealing truth about the lofty concerns of the politically powerful: To autograph or not to autograph. This post at Pax Americana does a good job explaining why the global warming “moderates” such as Samuelson are a big part of the problem right now. Bush’s 28% are going to oppose action on this issue to the death (literally), and real change requires the moderates (read: those Republicans who don’t completely hate science) [...] I haven’t been paying enough attention to this, but the California budget continues to be deadlocked one vote shy of the 2/3′s required to pass. The problem is the Republicans, naturally, who are borrowing plays from their US Senate brethren and trying to dictate policy despite the fact that the public has chosen to keep [...] We all thought he was going to Minnesota…but apparently he had to make a quick stop somewhere else God hates: Los Angeles!!! <sigh> Anyway, I wanted to pass on this fundraising letter from the LA Gay & Lesbian Center in response to Phelps hate. Fred Phelps is an asshole, and while there is no law against being an asshole, there is one against protesting at funerals in Minnesota, thank God. I have little doubt that this kind of over-the-top nuttery pushes the country to be more accepting of gays and, in this case, Minnesotans, but that is cold [...] |
|
|
|
Copyright © 2012 After Corbu - All Rights Reserved |
||
Recent Comments