Naomi Klein is my New Favorite Intellectual.
Her new book, “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,” synthesizes some ideas that have been rattling around the culture for a while now, but haven’t been connected together by anyone else.
My response to Obama’s request for me to get real with more money
If you’re going to ask me to get real ,Obama better get real. He’s taken a lot of money and has run a totally wimpy campaign. Most of the people I know who we’re for our guy have jumped ship. Didn’t he say something about audacity a while back? I guess that was advertising. You [...]
What about this idea, sent courtesy of Ron?
Specific suggestion: General strike BY Garret Keizer Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust. -Isaiah 26:19 1. Of all the various depredations of the Bush regime, none has been so thorough as its plundering of hope. Iraq will recover sooner. What was supposed to have been the crux of our foreign policy-a shock-and-awe tutorial [...]
A Perfect Storm of Political Paralysis.
So this is the political puppet show we’ve been reduced to in this country: Republicans pretending that we can still win in Iraq. Democrats pretending to be outraged. A perfect storm of political paralysis, in which each side has decided its safest option is do nothing. Except flap their gums, of course. A nirvana for [...]
Ronald Reagan Remembers George W. Bush.
This is a direct quote from the just published REAGAN DIARIES. The entry is dated May 17, 1986, during the Reagan-Bush second term: “May 17, 1986. A moment I’ve been dreading. George brought his ne’er-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in [...]
Here we go again
Center First Gives Way to Center Last By DAVID BROOKS Published: September 4, 2007 Have you noticed the change in the Iraq debate? Most American experts and policy makers wasted the past few years assuming that change in Iraq would come from the center and spread outward. They squandered months arguing about the benchmarks that [...]