John B. Judis has an eye-opening article up on Foreign Policy. Imperial Amnesia draws parallels between the current neoconservative attempts to dominate and transform Iraq, and the late 19th-/early 20th-century imperialist attempts to dominate and transform the Philippines and Mexico. Both Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt initially set out with goals of changing the [...]
There’s a great interview with Alan Moore up on Salon. It’s interesting to hear some of the writer’s thoughts on politics and society in an interview format instead of embedded in one of his stories. It’s also a bit freakish to compare the fascist English state in V for Vendetta with the current trends in [...]
The color-coded national terror alert level is one of the smallest-minded attempts at spreading fear and doubt that an administration has ever devised. It has, however, spawned some great humor, such as this Terror Alert Level based on Sesame Street characters.
I like to think of the color system in terms of designer colors:
pomegranate
tangerine
chartreuse
periwinkle
olive
The Political Compass is an interesting site that decries the terms “left” and “right” in describing people’s political leanings. It leaves left and right as a scale describing economic politics, with communism on the far left and unregulated free markets on the far right. It then introduces a second dimension to describe social politics, from [...]
Robert Anton Wilson is running for governor of California as a write-in candidate for the Guns and Dope Party. In his words:
After all, why should I remain the ONLY nut in California who ain’t running?
Kinda makes me wish I were Californian so I could vote down there.
via Boing Boing
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