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  • Wishful thinking

    news came about the liquidation of the Lublin ghetto. Since a few months before, when the serious “slip-up” of Celek and many others in Piotrkow and Lublin took place, communications with the groups outside the ghetto were almost non-existent. The Warsaw ghetto, lacking direct contacts with the outside, received these…

  • Heidegger

    This has got to be one of the most morally obtuse bits of writing ever committed to paper. Concerning 1933: I expected from National Socialism a spiritual renewal of life in its entirety, a reconciliation of social antagonisms and a deliverance of western Dasein from the dangers of communism. These…

  • Truthiness and the TARP non-scandal

    “Truthiness is what you want the facts to be, as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer, as opposed to what reality will support.” – Colbert Thanks to Gretchen Morgensen of the New York Times we have this story from Neil Barofsky’s truthy expose of…

  • Outsourcing and crappy journalism

    Previously published at the People’s View. Here’s Mother Jones magazine opening the predicted “progressive” storyline that Obama and Romney are not all that different Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are bickering over who is the bigger fan of outsourcing. The Obama campaign has accused the private equity firm Romney owned…

  • disrespect and managerial culture

    Obama’s relationship with Geithner became clear to me when I saw the video of Geithner playing basketball (in white shirt and suit pants) in China. The guy can still sink a jump shot and Obama respects that. Same with Duncan, e.g. Who cares about their policies? The guys can ball.…

  • HE’S BLACKETY BLACK with UPDATE!

    One of the better answers I have found comes from a well-known supporter of Mr Romney – Suzy Welch, former editor in chief of the Harvard Business Review, and wife of Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric. In an appearance on CNN with her husband, Mrs Welch suggested that…

  • Where do we go from here?

    Speech by Martin Luther King The rhetorical brilliance of this speech is so impressive that it matches the underlying cold eyed realism of the political analysis. Southern Christian Leadership ConferenceAtlanta, Georgia16 August 1967 Now, in order to answer the question, “Where do we go from here?” which is our theme,…

  • A Greenwald primer – in progress (update 6/10/2013)

    I’m putting together some of my favorite Greenwaldianisms. Unusually, Mika Brzezinski was on point: “Quickly, I just want an answer yes or no,” Brzezinski began. “Isn’t it the case that reviewing of emails or any wiretapping cannot take place without an additional warrant from a judge and a review? It’s…

  • Jetpacks versus Power Point Decks

    And so a timid, bureaucratic spirit suffuses every aspect of cultural life. It comes festooned in a language of creativity, initiative, and entrepreneurialism. But the language is meaningless. Graeber David Graeber wrote the first old school left wing essay I have seen in years and it makes the flabby, stale…

  • If I only had a Bain

    Lyrics to If I Only Had A Brain :(Scarecrow) I could wile away the hoursConferrin’ with Chris FlowersConsultin’ about grain futuresAnd my head I’d be scratchin’While my thoughts were busy hatchin’If I only had a Bain I’d unravel any riddleFor any individ’leAs long as I got paid (Dorothy)With the thoughts…