Look, you couldn’t pay me to watch most of this crap but perhaps your stomach is stronger than mine so I offer it in case you need to get your fix. Tonight CNN South Carolina Town Hall with Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Ben Carson MSNBC All Trump all the time with Joe Scarborough and …
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Feb 17 2016
You Say You Want A Revolution?
Unfortunately, we’ve already had one. The issue is not Hillary Clinton’s Wall St links but Democrats’ core dogmas Thomas Frank, The Guardian Tuesday 16 February 2016 17.01 EST (W)hat voters are rejecting is not Hillary the Capable; it is the party whose leadership faction she represents as well as the direction in which our modern …
Feb 17 2016
More on Piketty
Not that I’m responsible, just that I’m prescient. Yesterday I pointed out a very important piece by Thomas Piketty over at The Guardian and overnight interest among a certain class of economic observers (the left ones) has spiked. Ed Walker (masaccio) has a particularly fascinating take on it at emptywheel that I want to draw …
Feb 16 2016
A Short History of Neoliberal Economic Policy Failure
Contrasted with the success of Keynesian economics and New Deal/Great Society policy. Thomas Piketty on the rise of Bernie Sanders: the US enters a new political era Thomas Piketty, The Guardian Tuesday 16 February 2016 11.13 EST From the 1930s until the 1970s, the US were at the forefront of an ambitious set of policies …
Feb 15 2016
“Kissinger is a friend”
Kissinger is a friend, and I relied on his counsel when I served as secretary of state. He checked in with me regularly, sharing astute observations about foreign leaders and sending me written reports on his travels. Though we have often seen the world and some of our challenges quite differently, and advocated different responses …
Feb 14 2016
My Las Vegas Convention- A Happy Story
(originally in orange Sat Jun 17, 2006 at 07:01 PM PDT) Can you handle the truth? How about a good story? If you are a regular reader you may know that I was State Co-ordinator of my meatspace club. You may not know I was engaged. Yes I know, hard to believe anyone can stand …
Feb 14 2016
The Little Match Girl
By Hans Christian Andersen (A Fairy Tale) Most terribly cold it was; it snowed, and was nearly quite dark, and evening– the last evening of the year. In this cold and darkness there went along the street a poor little girl, bareheaded, and with naked feet. When she left home she had slippers on, it …
Feb 13 2016
Number 9, #9, No. Nein.: Republican Debate Open Thread
Scalia was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Scalia was as dead …
Feb 12 2016
Sister Souljah
Back in May of 1992, when Bill Clinton was locked in a nomination battle with Jesse Jackson, one of Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition members, rap artist Sister Souljah, commenting on the riots that followed the brutal beating of Rodney King by out of control Los Angeles Police (Chief Daryl Gates was forced to resign) and the …
Feb 11 2016
Democratic Debate #6 Open Thread
I am not a number. I am a FREE MAN! So tonight’s offering is at 9 pm ET on PBS and will be held at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI. What Hillary needs to do is offer a vision of positive change. So far she has a bunch of pre-compromised position papers promising more of …
Feb 11 2016
About those Super Delegates
Well, it’s true that they have 2 Super Powers. First, they are not elected. They are Democratic elected officials and Officers of the Democratic Party. Yes, that’s almost as undemocratic as you can get unless, of course, they inherited that power. Second, they are unbound. They can vote for any candidate they want, even if …