What happened to the anti-war movement?

One of the largest anti-war protests in recent years took place last week. If you blinked you may have missed it. Even if you didn’t blink you had to know where to look. There was a black-out and a white-out Thursday and Friday as over a hundred US veterans opposed to US wars in Afghanistan [...]

Thursday: Relative

There isn’t much time left before the big day!  Yep, before you know it, the Republicans will have full control of the House.  What, you thought I was talking about Christmas. Here’s a frightening cautionary tale: The town of Pritchard in Alabama was warned for years that it wasn’t setting enough money aside to pay [...]

Happy Festivus!

Frank Costanza: “Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way.“ Cosmo Kramer: “What happened to the doll?“ Frank Costanza: “It was destroyed. But out [...]

Wrap party and cookie swap

It’s time, Conflucians. Yes, once a year, we go looking for the tape and wherever the kids have hidden the scissors and spend the evening wrapping all of those things we spent too much money on. Note to the economists: my gauge of a successful Christmas season is how much time I spend in predatory [...]

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The Cult of Assange

Michael Lind at Salon: An invisible, stateless, global Panopticon, manned by hidden zealots subjecting everyone in every country to potential surveillance and public humiliation, is a Foucaultian nightmare. Here is the creepy message sent to Wired magazine before a wave of criminal cyber-attacks launched by supporters of Assange: We are the clear logic used to [...]

Confidence Men

It’s no secret I’m skeptical of WikiLeaks. It really seems to piss some people off that I don’t think the organization is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Sorry, but I’m a foliehatt and don’t trust anyone. Neither does this guy: Wikileaks: a Big Dangerous US Government Con Job The story on the surface makes [...]

Wednesday News – Net (Non)Neutrality Edition

Good Morning Conflucians!! Big news this week is the FCC ruling on net neutrality or in this case, the lack of net neutrality. Yet another case of Obama handing over what is the people’s to the few rich and powerful. But before we get to that, another cowardly Obama move deserves notice. Namely how the [...]

She’s a real Betty

Betty White voted AP entertainer of the year What Betty White did in 2010 doesn’t usually happen: an 88-year-old actress with more than six decades in Hollywood suddenly became the object of adulation of the Facebook-connected masses, which campaigned for her to host “Saturday Night Live,” boosting the show’s ratings and helping her set ratings [...]

Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out

A party-hopping opportunist says sayonara: Ever the prosecutor, Sen. Arlen Specter delivered a critical attack of partisan politics in his self-described “closing argument” Tuesday morning on the Senate floor. The speech capped Specter’s 30-year career as the longest-serving senator from Pennsylvania. In his final words on the floor, Specter called for civility in the chamber [...]