That would be the same Perry who is now challenging Virginia’s rules. But the differences between the law Perry signed and the law he’s challenging are instructive.https://www.readability.com/articles/armv9bkq
At the voter level, the Tea Party is a movement that purports to be furious about government spending — only the reality is that the vast majority of its members are former Bush supporters who yawned through two terms of record deficits and spent the past two electoral cycles frothing not about spending but about John Kerry’s medals and Barack Obama’s Sixties associations. The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending — with the exception of the money spent on them.
Tea and Crackers by Matt Taibbi
Agree or disagree, the writing is muscular, memorable and pugnacious
It’s truly incredible how much ink and serious commentary is devoted to the “Tea Party” these days, as if it were such a complicated and intricate political phenomenon. At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if universities started teaching courses called “The Postmodern Discontents of the…
Well said!
It’s kind of stunning that the perception of Time Square bombing in Pakistan is viewed not as an home grown terrorist attempt but rather the conspiracy theory created by the US while Pakistani media playing the crucial role. I used to think Fox News and bunch of other Indian medias were good at creating such conspiracies and fucking the contextual perception of their viewer. Seems like there are more such medias out there in Pakistan doing same.
This is utter non-sense:
With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations… information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation
Information has not been distracted, it has become more integrated, and kind of decoupled just like a desktop / web widget, and generally contextual also.
And may be all these social medias and new gadgets are innovating democracy we have never seen before.
