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jakoblodwick: peterberkman: America is over. This is bleak,...

jakoblodwick: peterberkman: America is over. This is bleak, folks.

jakoblodwick: peterberkman: America is over. This is bleak,...

jakoblodwick: peterberkman: America is over. This is bleak, folks.

A lot of things are starting to make a lot of sense.

A lot of things are starting to make a lot of sense.: (via peterberkman) Evidence of what is really going on will continue to trickle through. I’m not going to wait around to be told we’re being duped. 

modfetish: The Week IN HISS: A NEW Landscape | The ImagistI...

modfetish: The Week IN HISS: A NEW Landscape | The ImagistI picked up a copy of this…It is surreal.  

Coming soon: Hitler dolls

A Ukrainian toymaker has announced that it will begin selling dolls of ... Adolf Hitler.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicalities

Source: The Economist | Author: The Economist | Date: 25 Apr 2008While its understandable that banks want to lend in good times and call in debts in bad times, such actions only exacerbate economic cycles. But neither domestic nor international regulation does much to curb such behavior; Lenders don't ...

Charlemagne: Europe's Marxist dilemma

Source: The Economist | Author: The Economist | Date: 25 Apr 2008That's Marx as in Groucho, not Karl -- and specifically his quip about not joining a club that would have him as a member. The European Union's equivalent is the way so many countries unsuitable for membership want to join, seemingly thinking ...

Self-Inflicted Confusion

Source: The New York Times | Author: Paul Krugman | Date: 25 Apr 2008The Obama glow seems to be gone, as his rhetoric of hope and change falls on deaf ears among the working class -- who then vote for Hillary Clinton in state after crucial state like Ohio and Pennsylvania. Clinton's no-nonsense, wonkish ...

Rubber Band Needed

Source: The Onion | Author: The Onion | Date: 25 Apr 2008Yesterday Ron Meyer embarked on the perilous, eminently frustrating quest to procure a rubber band from office coworkers. The goal: to roll up a 22-inch-by-28-inch piece of white poster board. The need: a rubber band of suitable circumference and ...

Swinging In The Wind

Source: The Economist | Author: The Economist | Date: 25 Apr 2008The Democratic campaign stalemate is worsened by the Electoral College set-up: With two relatively evenly balanced national parties, the presidency is virtually guaranteed to go to whomever wins two out of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. ...

Bagehot: Methuselah's Lament

Source: The Economist | Author: The Economist | Date: 25 Apr 2008Gordon Brown's current woes appear to stem from specific policy points. Despite numerous changes that have reduced poverty, his abolishing the lowest band of income tax has hurt the least well-off. And he's facing a parliamentary defeat ...

Asia's Other Miracle

Source: The Economist | Author: The Economist | Date: 25 Apr 2008Vietnam is shaking off the "boat people" tag thanks to a strong economy averaging 7.5 percent growth in the past decade. Embracing free trade has made it a local economic power and even helped it achieve a temporary seat on the United Nations ...

Ollie Johnson

Source: The Economist | Author: The Economist | Date: 25 Apr 2008The last, and arguably the most memorable, of Walt Disney's elite animators has died at age 95. Unlike his colleagues, Ollie Johnson concentrated on the emotions behind his characters' movements, producing memorable moments such as Sneezy ...

The View From Gate 14

Source: The Wall Street Journal | Author: Peggy Noonan | Date: 25 Apr 2008What does airport security screening have to do with the 2008 presidential campaign? Noonan ties the two together by describing the resentment and resignation of Americans shuffling through an airport line, wondering where common ...

The Race That Wouldn't Die

Source: The Washington Post | Author: Eugene Robinson | Date: 25 Apr 2008Robinson is clearly frustrated with a Democratic selection process he describes as "our long national nightmare"; it's mind-boggling that a candidate winning a major state by ten points at this stage still has no realistic prospect ...

Lexington: Only in America

Source: The Economist | Author: The Economist | Date: 25 Apr 2008American exceptionalism -- the idea that America stands apart from the world qualitatively -- might seem to be waning, Lexington writes. Americans are unhappy with the Bush administration, "the most exceptional administration in years," ...

Baseball Dares to Be Different

Source: The Wall Street Journal | Author: Darren Everson | Date: 25 Apr 2008A number of MLB managers have tried the unconventional this season -- pitchers playing the outfield, infield shifts, catchers batting ninth -- thereby exposing themselves to critical fans and reporters. Everson intelligently ...

Understanding Black Patriotism

Source: Time | Author: Michael Eric Dyson | Date: 25 Apr 2008Sorting through the words of black leaders -- including Martin Luther King, Jr., Frederick Douglass, and W.E.B. Dubois -- Dyson explores the distinction between what he deems "black patriotism" and nationalism. Nationalism, he argues, is blind ...

The Strong Dollar Bench Presses the Party Line

Source: Time | Author: Justin Fox | Date: 25 Apr 2008When asked about the current economic woes of the country, the administration has firmly touted a "strong dollar policy." However, with the dollar constantly weakening relative to its currency competition and with the constant practices of running ...