krebscycle

  • Hippie punching: a whole earth guide for the rest of us

    Hippie punching is fun, good exercise, and good for the environment, but it can be confusing unless you follow a few common sense rules. The first is to understand that hippie punching does not involve hurting these kinds of people or any kind of physical violence at all. G_d forbid.…

  • a discussion

    <![CDATA[// <![CDATA[ //]]> rootless_e    re an article that is based on a Mike Allen story – CLUELESS => @digby56 Mike Allen? Huh?18 dimensional chess is above my head// 16 minutes ago via TweetDeck   Delete rootless_e    .@digby56 http://krebscycle.tumblr.com/post/1169427165/how-mike-allen-plays-the-netroots #p2 about 2 hours ago via TweetDeck   Delete rootless_e…

  • How Mike Allen plays the netroots

    Digby reports that the evil Obama has said mean things about the delicate people on the net who claim to be “the left” or “hippies” or something. She gives us this horrifying, blood-curdling, bone-chilling, even uppity quote: Democrats, just congenitally, tend to get – to see the glass as half empty.…

  • similarities

    In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn’t like about Bush’s former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House’s displeasure, and then he told me something that at…

  • The free market doesn’t like green energy all that much

    When economists talk of “the market”, they mean the collective decision of investors. The Obama administration is lending to build electric cars and batteries. a total of $8 billion in loan commitments, including a whopping $5.9 billion to help Ford retool factories in Kentucky, Michigan [..], Illinois, Missouri and Ohio…

  • Casinos and conventional economics

    Conventional economics used by everyone from Paul Krugman to the wacknuts at the Chicago school is based on the assumption that people who participate in the market all act to maximize their income. There are a lot of problems with this assumption, but it’s fundamental to conventional economics and it’s…

  • Showing some fight and drawing lines in the sand

    “Progressive” critics of President Obama have often complained about a perceived lack of passionate commitment. A common complaint goes something like this: If he would only fight hard and draw a line in the sand, I don’t care if he wins I guess I’m not progressive because I’m interested in…

  • Amazing that none of our “limited government” dispshit “conservatives” cared about this. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • Tea Party thoughts from 2005

    Every  society  has  a conservative elite that generally acts  to defend order and privilege. But when that elite becomes too fearful  or  too proud, like our American conservative elite, it forgets the fragility of social order and presumes to hire the Devil as  a  servant.  The same insanity and hubris…