I grabbed this book, by meteorologist Eric Holthaus, as soon as it went on sale, excited to check out the new vision of how we can all better live together. There’s lots of information for the uninitiated, and then it becomes sort of a fictional narrative. There are no characters
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A Puff of Absurdity: Reich’s The System
Robert Reich, an economist and professor of economics at Princeton who served under Ford, Carter, and Clinton administrations, had a great discussion with Michael Sandel, political philosophy professor at Harvard, about Reich’s new book: The System: Who Rigged It and How to Fix It. I can only find the 60 minute
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Age of Oblivion: Another End of Decade Rant
Of course calendars are a construct and don’t mean anything, but the end of the year and, even more so, the end of the decade are useful times to take stock. In pop culture, we have the Ecco Homo moment as a cultural foreboding – the chutzpah to insist on a fix that pretends
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Requiem for the American Dream
This is Chomsky’s last long-form documentary. It came out in January, but I hadn’t heard about it until recently. I paraphrased/transcribed the 72 minute video liberally with links to further readings below. It’s about the American Dream: the idea that you can be born poor but work hard enough for
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Requiem for the American Dream
This is Chomsky’s last long-form documentary. It came out in January, but I hadn’t heard about it until recently. I paraphrased the 72 minute video liberally with links to further readings below. It’s about the American Dream: the idea that you can be born poor but work hard enough for
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Retaliation
Both Hedges and Reich are writing about Trump’s frightening behaviour. It’s not just the weird tweets, but the follow-up from him and from supporters. Reich discusses Chuck Jones’ experience: “I’m getting threats and everything else from some of his supporters.” And he talks about Trump’s tweet proposing cancelling a fictitious Boeing
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: On Retaliation
Both Hedges and Reich are writing about Trump’s frightening behaviour. It’s not just the weird tweets, but the follow-up from him and from supporters. Reich discusses Chuck Jones’ experience: “I’m getting threats and everything else from some of his supporters.” And he talks about Trump’s tweet proposing cancelling a fictitious Boeing
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: If You’re Not Turned on to Politics…
…. politics will turn on you. – Nader
Hedges is at his most impassioned in this debate with Robert Reich. It’s just the last 35 minutes of the show. But his point was made years ago by Rage Against the Machine, in this video directed by …
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: If You’re Not Turned on to Politics…
…. politics will turn on you. – Nader
Hedges is at his most impassioned in this debate with Robert Reich. It’s just the last 35 minutes of the show. But his point was made years ago by Rage Against the Machine, in this video directed by …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The GOP War on Working Class America
Freshmen GOP – 2010 Paul Krugman recently questioned the sanity of Congressional Republicans who, he contends, have inflicted such a level of dysfunctionality on the federal government as to leave America ungovernable. Robert Reich, however, seems method in the madness of the “Party of No.” The real answer, I think,
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Mitt Romney – Class Warrior
Mitt Romney wouldn’t be the first really rich man to enter the White House. But, as Robert Reich points out, he’d certainly be a lot different. America has had hugely wealthy presidents before — think of Teddy Roosevelt and his distant cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt; or John F. Kennedy, beneficiary
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