Get Over Your Industrial Complex
From the monthly archives:
Attention anarchist revolutionaries! Salute a new role model: the energetic members of the Somali Coast Guard! These AK-47 and RPG wielding versions of Calico Jack patrol the seas, keeping illegal weapons from war torn regions and preventing millions of barrels of oil from being combusted into the atmosphere. They fight for the little man: the [...]
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The “red” coalition that brought Reagan, Bush I and II to power has fractured under the weight of their success because they did not properly serve their constituents. After 8 years of Bush, the traditionalists (Christian conservatives) are still upset about the lack of socially conservative progress, the nationalists (hawks and ’security’ voters) are frustrated [...]
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The American automobile industry was once a national source of pride; now it is a national disgrace. When the Ford Mustang launched in 1964 (and 1/2) it seemed like Detroit could do no wrong. They were making money hand over first, their innovations were celebrated by the press and consumers had big cars and big [...]
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On Monday, General Motors spooked the entire economics community, financial and academic, when it reported that it was hemorraging $2 billion a month and might be forced to declare bankruptcy. If their cash reserves dip below $10 billion, the company said it will be unable to pay its health care obligations or even finance its [...]
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American consciousness shifted to a different political value system and we can call it purple. It’s going to ripple through the American perception like a drop into a bucket. The changes won’t be imminent but they’ll be inevitable. You could call it a shift to collectivism but (hopefully) it could transcends that and becomes a [...]
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To understand why Americans chose to unite under Barack Obama and shed their ‘red’ and ‘blue’ identities, one must look at where our deepest contemporary fissure began: the Vietnam War. It’s hard for our younger generation to imagine how the struggle over Vietnam divided this country. Nixon articulated the division well by describing the Silent [...]
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David Blaine, watch your back. Despite your impressive resume of awe-inspiring street magic and death-defying physical exploits, a far better illusionist is attempting to complete his last and most astonishing trick. A vanishing act, so incredibly unbelievable, that it will forever be considered one of the greatest acts of deception ever displayed to an audience. [...]
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On Tuesday night, with the resounding selection of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States, the latest test case in the trial of idealism successfully earned a place back on the American docket.
It was a moment of emotional catharsis for idealism’s often denigrated liberal clerks, whose flowing tears and unrelenting exclamations of [...]
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Tonight, everything is up for grabs.
Who loses in that type of situation? The status quo. Existing worldviews.
Who’s playing?
Insurers, universities, health care organizations, foreclosure markets, and more health care organizations.
To the media players, desperate to keep this election interesting and watchable, McCain is currently “winning”, but everyone knows he’s going to lose. Who is going to [...]
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Californian Jurisprudence To The Rescue?
by Anthony Kanigliero on November 24, 2008
in Commentary
Every morning I drive down Santa Monica Boulevard in West Los Angeles, past the largest Mormon Church in Southern California. Before Proposition 8 – the state referendum functionally banning gay marriage – passed, I felt fairly ambivalent towards the looming concrete structure, anointed by the large gold figurine of a man pointing east towards Jerusalem. [...]
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