Archive for the 'criticism' Category
Progress
Booman Tribune is a self-described “progressive community”, but for me it’s that blog I love to hate. I think the guy who runs it is, personally, a nice guy, but our views on the country and the Administration have gone in utterly different directions, to the point that I’ve tried to stop reading it [...]
Read More..>>Eleven Dimensional Chess
Listening to WHYY’s rebroadcast of Radio Times, which deals with the impact of Tom Corbett’s methodically mad and deeply cruel spending cuts, reminded me of something I think it’s important to repeat.
Just so we’re clear, Tom Corbett and the rest of the newly-elected right wing governors care about re-election about as much as Mohammed Atta [...]
“Do It For Caylee”
So all over the fucking facebook, all sorts of people are posting these bullshit, self-satisfied “leave the porch light on for Caylee”, in memory of this 2-year old little kid whose mother Casey Anthony, everyone seems to suspect, has gotten away with murdering her. One person went the length of making a choo-choo train [...]
Read More..>>A Response to Dan Rottenberg
Tara Murtha has an ibncredible peice in the Philly Weekly today, a further response to writer Dan Rottenberg’s apologia for rape. In this incredibly misguided piece filled with discredited ideas, perhaps the worst was when Rottenberg wrote:
in practice, rape and the notion of sexual conquest persist for the same reason that warfare persists: because the [...]
Obama: Maybe Not So Progressive After All, Part Two
I never knew that protecting torturers from their crimes was a progressive value.
In its first months in office, the Obama administration sought to protect Bush administration officials facing criminal investigation overseas for their involvement in establishing policies the that governed interrogations of detained terrorist suspects. A “confidential” April 17, 2009, cable sent from [...]
Answer to Mithras
If you did and she won, do you think you’d be complaining as bitterly or more bitterly now?
Mithras, in comments
Fair question, albeit one that’s impossible to answer. But I can tell you this: one of the reasons I didn’t support Clinton was that she was a known quantity. I knew her background, I knew [...]
Time for Another Round of “No Shit, Sherlock”
UPDATED BELOW
sigh:
I simply do not understand the enthusiasm gap, and you manic progressives can figure out how you are going to change your script from blaming Obama for not being liberal enough, because this is Feingold we are talking about.
Really, John? You don’t understand the enthusiasm gap? Because I’ve been reading your site for [...]
No, I. Goldberg, I’m Not Paying $40.00 for a Pair of Converse All-Star High-Tops.
I went down to I. Goldberg today to pick up a pair of Converse All-Stars today. You know the shoe: canvas uppers, rubber sole, metal grommet eyelets and vents. I have a soft spot for them dating back to my punk-rock skater days, and in fact wear them at my rockabilly gigs for [...]
Read More..>>A Response to “Fuck You, Us”.
Sex Pistols, “No One Is Innocent”
Alex: “And fuck you, us. We’re the ones consuming all that oil.”
You’ll have to pardon me for lifting a response I made in comments to a full-on post, but I’ve been seeing this theme going around a lot recently. And while I respect where it comes from, I reject it [...]
Philadelphia Newspapers For Sale, But Philadelphia Newspapers Yawn At News
[note: i'll be reformatting those screen shots later today].
It’s 8:40 in the morning and I should be getting ready for work. Instead, I’m running late because I was listening to WHYY’s Sue Phillips do a fantastic piece on today’s auction, which will see the bankrupt Philadelphia Media Holdings sold off to the highest bidder. [...]
