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Wednesday, April 15. 2009

Thursday morning links, posted early

Tea Parties all over. Martini Parties too, but in private I suppose. Photo from Ann Arbor. Map of today's Parties: Lots of 'em.


Also, Why you should go to one. LAT: Tea Parties are insane. Tea parties are about future taxes: Q&O.


Each one is identically different: Sipp.


Pirates talking tough. AAARRRGhhh. It's the most trivial of our international problems. Related: More support for the pirates. Let's all collect bottles of Bacardi for the poor fellows.


Social class in America:



For readers who somehow missed this snide, martini-dry American classic, do have your assistant Tessa run out and get it immediately (Upper), or at least be sure to worriedly skim this magazine summary over a low-fat bagel (Middle), because Fussell’s bibelot-rich tropes still resonate.



When Viktor met Olga.


More Lefty thugs preventing free speech at UNC. Aren't different points of view interesting?


The unbearable lightness of Paul Krugman


If you are a single guy, and paid your taxes today honestly (or at least filed your extension), your reward, besides feeling patriotic and honest, is the young lassie below the fold courtesy of Obama and Timmy Geithner. She's waiting at home for ya.


Courtesy of Theo

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 22:13 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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I starting reading that social class thing but didn't make it very far. I think the author must have been paid by the word.
#1 chuck on 2009-04-15 22:22 (Reply)
I love the computer - When I see a piece like that, chock full o' cutesy obscure references that show off the author's snidely upbringing amid a crush of cultural iconatry that afforded her the time to absorb and even more time to regurgitate, I read from the bottom up. Alas, I don't believe I got more than half way back to the beginning.

I do, however, enjoy her speculation that the nouveau shallow, in this emerging/collapsing economic paradigm, may have to contemplate putting away the MePod and picking up the banjo, dropping the imported Fijian water vessel and turning on the spigot, and start mixing with the real people at the library rather than buying the trendy tome-of-the-month at the popular coffee-flavored magazine rack.

I'll go back and begin anew from the mid-point... after I locate my banjo picks.
#1.1 The Distributist (Link) on 2009-04-16 06:57 (Reply)
Hell, I didn't read anything. Just went below the fold. Looks Photshopped, really. But I'll fold for the basics. I mean really... isn't it all about the sex?
#2 Luther McLeod on 2009-04-15 23:22 (Reply)
Oh, Luther ... Wouldn't it be nice if it was all about sex? Memories ... memories. They keep you warm at night.

To get serious here, I've been scanning the reports about the Tea Parties, which were enthusiastic, passionate, kind of amateurish -- and good mannered, as befits adults trying to make a point. No bully boys, no mafia thugs, just fed-up Americans trying to make a point. I think we have the beginnings of a real movement here rather than a flash in the pan. And I'm glad. It's 'draw a line in the sand' time for us all. In the 1930s, the Germans let their rights melt away because they weren't paying attention. Freedom of speech. Then gradually, freedom of action. And finally freedom of thought. Then it was too late.

Marianne
#3 Marianne Matthews on 2009-04-15 23:51 (Reply)
MM, I'm quite sure I would have given your hubby a run for his money. Aside from a few years.

As to your further comment... once I get my mind to rest.

You're right... it bleeds away slowly, hardly noticed. Until it's too late. But lets hope that the Tea Parties are showing the way forward, no matter the small beginnings.
#4 Luther McLeod on 2009-04-16 00:27 (Reply)
--nice angle in the poster in the illo --so the first humans in Democrass-world were Atm and Owe maybe ?
#5 buddy larsen on 2009-04-16 00:52 (Reply)
I decided not to go, lest me picture be snapped while associating with known right wing terroists by Mudboy's SS.
#6 Leag on 2009-04-16 11:51 (Reply)
Favorite Tea Party slogan:

"7 years of war costs less than 90 days of socialism."

PS, Marianne, thanks.
#7 Texan99 (Link) on 2009-04-16 12:36 (Reply)

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