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  • 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…

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Romney Hampton-alooza

    So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. — A woman in a blue chiffon dress poked her head out of a black Range Rover here on Sunday afternoon and yelled to an aide to Mitt Romney. “Is there a V.I.P. entrance?…

  • The Left’s Cult of Ineffectuality: Labor union edition

    Decades of dangerous, often deadly, idealistic, brave, militant, organizing in the United States had failed to break the effects of government suppression of labor unions until the Laguardia/Norris act and then the Wagner Act of 1935. What followed was a decade of rapid growth for labor that came to a…

  • Doug Henwood’s weak dishonesty and Left irresponsibility

    Here’s a tweet from left intellectual Doug Henwood with the always popular Bush=Gore theme. Obama reveals his philosophy of government – downsizing, tax cuts, dereg – and calls it a sharp contrast to Romney’s: washingtonpost.com/politics/full-… — Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) June 14, 2012 The link is to President Obama’s speech in…

  • Multi-Cultural 4th of July Picnics versus Museum Marxism

    [under edit] The late Robert Fitch’s Obama speech from 2008 has been widely circulated and it should be because it really sums up the dead end confusion and wounded privilege of the American Left as the 21st century gets under way. Fitch begins with an examination of Barack Obama’s 2004…

  • Bain’s sucker capitalism

    Mitt Romney and Bain Capital is what happens when the government gets corrupted by the rich to make what the great venture capitalist Vinod Khosla calls “incumbency capitalism” – capitalism rigged in favor of the people who already are rich. The law is supposed to make sure that managers and…

  • Wall Street is right about bank regulation

    Wall Street is right, the system of bank regulation we have is ineffective, obsolete, a competitive disadvantage for US banks and an unethical subsidy of the richest by the general public. Oh they don’t say that last part, but it’s the most important part. Why does Bank of America have…

  • Rothschild Banking Conspiracy and “the left”

    The right has never lost their enthusiasm for theories in which Masons, Illuminati, and especially Jews exercise shadowy control of world governments for nefarious purposes.  But recently the pathetic remnants of “the left” have also experienced a rash of Rothschild Jew Banker enthusiasm especially for a “quote” from the founding…

  • Random Notes: post-facism, banks, etc.

    This adventure ended in the debacle of 1914. Fascism offered the most determined response to the collapse of the Enlightenment, especially of democratic socialism and progressive social reform. Fascism, on the whole, was not conservative, even if it was counter-revolutionary: it did not re-establish hereditary aristocracy or the monarchy, despite…