Ron Paul campaign turns latest $2M moneybomb into ad barrage…
GLOVES ARE OFF: Ads attack Obama, Perry, Romney and Cain on bank bailouts…
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A compelling argument for piracy from an Aussie…
Gladiator, Channel 10. We’re back from a commercial break. Rusty arrives back at home in Spain to find his wife and son raped and crucified. It’s arguably the most touching scene of the whole movie. What better time for a giant cartoon helicopter to fly around the screen announcing, “Don’t forget, Merrick and Rosso! The B-Team! Every Wednesday night at 7.30!”
I remember every syllable of that ad. Positioning ads like this is, Gruen has told us, is most effective as we’re at our most vulnerable. But at the same time this was like the network raising its middle finger at the us and yelling, “Lap it up, suckers!”
FLASHBACK: We’ve gone toe-to-toe with Australian copyright warriors and won…
Adobe promises to package new “deblur” technology in future Photoshop…
Eventually, we will move beyond image forensics to solve more common issues – like a low resolution image from your camera phone – and make it as crisp as what you saw in the real-world moment.
Generation X Doesn’t Want to Hear It…
But Generation X is tired of your sense of entitlement. Generation X also graduated during a recession. It had even shittier jobs, and actually had to pay for its own music. (At least, when music mattered most to it.) Generation X is used to being fucked over. It lost its meager savings in the dot-com bust. Then came George Bush, and 9/11, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Generation X bore the brunt of all that. And then came the housing crisis.
Generation X wasn’t surprised. Generation X kind of expected it.
Herman Cain’s god-awful constitutional understanding…
Every time we receive significant intelligence about the enemy, our enemies from within say we obtained is [sic] unconstitutionally, as if terrorists should receive the benefits of our constitutional protections.
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests
VIDEO: Huge Marine dresses down NYPD over brutal police tactics…
Libertarians to Occupiers: Crony capitalism is the problem…
I hope the Occupy protesters will start to direct their anger away from Wall Street and big businesses, and toward our government, which has done so much to destroy free markets and entrench crony capitalism.
Occupy Wall Street shows muscle, raises $300K…
Scandal rocks NYPD: “We fabricated drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas”..
Facebook PAC gets off the ground with high profile politicos piloting…
Federal records show the company has more than tripled its federal lobbying spending since 2009, from about $200,000 to more than $730,000 this year.
Goldman Sachs to employees: avoid Occupy Wall Street…
Occupy Cleveland protesters granted public event permit…
POLLS: Most Americans support..
TONY BALOGNA: Lawyer for woman pepper sprayed demands charges against NYPD official…
Occupy Wall Street Has Already Won…
[T]he visceral emotions that accompany citizen activism generate not only an energy that can change politics but an incoherence that is easily mocked. OWS is not a Brookings Institution report with five carefully researched policy points and an appendix of data. It is a leaderless movement, and it can often be painfully simplistic in its economic critique, lacking in subtlety in its political strategies, and marred by fringe elements whose presence distracts and demeans. Yet, the point of OWS is not to be subtle, parsed, or nuanced. Its role is to drag politics to a different place, to provide the exuberance and energy upon which reform can take place.
A libertarian camps out with Wall Street occupiers…
My agreement with these folks went no further, however, than a common diagnosis of the problem. Their proposed solutions — more campaign finance restrictions and curbs on the freedom of firms to lobby — showed disregard for the freedom of speech. They also don’t seem to understand that getting government more involved in the economy always gets business more involved in government. Outside the small minority of Ron Paul supporters at the park, none of the occupiers saw smaller government as the answer to cronyism and corporatism.
Baby, we’re all anarchists now…
It shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s experienced with leftist activism that the group of discontents included a bunch of anarchists and anti-authoritarians who are used to a certain horizontal process of talking and decision-making in a group. It’s called consensus, it often involves twinkling fingers to signal agreement, and it’s useful for deciding things like “Which park should we occupy?” The basis for that first meeting, for the sequence of events, was a walking away from organizers. By now consensus and the oft-mocked twinkling fingers have become part of a common language on the left, but now some people without a background in the process are using it as a means of control.
Autonomous action has been the engine of Occupy Wall Street, providing what Hendrick Hertzberg describes as two of the three “shots of adrenaline” — the third coming from a deranged senior police officer. Instead of providing a basis for discourse and autonomous action, the General Assembly has become a tool of imposed accountability, treating consensus as if it were a way to implement policy upon a population.
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