I’m on the way out the door to go on a trip with my father. We go when we can to things like the Washita Battlefield Massacre, the Quartz Mountains, and so on. We’re going to McAlester next on a father – son – no – hurry – type – trip, and I’m going soon. Just wanted to pass this on; I just found it.
February 15, 2009 archive
Feb 15 2009
“Ethnic Cleansing That Befell the Western Tribes”
Feb 15 2009
A Perpetually Sputtering Bonfire of the Ptolemies
“It’s a long, long way to the top-but when you come down, it’s one headlong rush.”
-David Lowery of Cracker
Gravity is working extra-hard on everybody these days, but for me, its extraordinarily powerful pull on the rabid wild animals of the financial industry makes Mr. Lowery’s quote strikingly appropriate. Jimmy Cliff said the same thing much better, of course, and it’s not like previous faux-flagellations of the super-rich have yielded any behavioral changes in terms of arrogance, entitlement, or narcissism (a Boesky or Milken here, a Madoff there), but since king-hell extravagance seems to be falling back out of style for the time being, it’s probably a good time to reflect on the mind-sets that got us to this point. When the worst is yet to come, we tend to dismiss the merely awful in tense anticipation of whatever ugliness may follow, but one of the most predictable episodes in the whole sorry saga of the President’s economic stimulus package was the temper tantrums and other spastic freakouts from Wall Street and the Republicans when they realized they weren’t getting all the props from Obama and Geithner that they’d paid for in 2008.
Feb 15 2009
Revolt is in the air
Original article, subtitled The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression is throwing countries across Europe into turmoil–and spurring struggles unseen in years. Eric Ruder looks at what the future may hold, via socialistworker.org:
THE FINANCIAL turmoil that began in the summer of 2007 in the U.S. is spreading around the globe with frightening speed and devastating consequences for working people.
Feb 15 2009
You’re From Ohio, You Idiot, Don’t Screw With Our Train
Burning the Midnight Oil for a Brawny Recovery
“Tell me how spending $8 billion,”
asked House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) on the floor,
“in this bill to have a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and Las Vegas is going to help the construction worker in my district.”
(h/t Matthew Yglesias)
Now, lets look at the Federally Designated Corridors — and you have to have a designated corridor to get any of the $8b.
Yup, no corridor to Vegas. Oh, and what’s that we see … two, count ’em TWO corridors through Ohio … Cleveland to Chicago and Cleveland / Columbus / Dayton / Cincinnati.
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