Trump’s Border Wall Will Cost 54 Bridges To Nowhere
Let’s continue this extremely scientific analysis by comparing the two projects.
Tag: politics
Learn from this, Canada.
Canada’s the shining beacon on a hill now, the only Western power that believes in multiculturalism.
The First Canadian President!
I bought into part of the birther narrative, and didn’t even realize it. You probably did too. We all knew the birthers were crazy, because Obama wasn’t born in Kenya. But not one of us…
On the shutdown: call out bullshit, then question your own.
As you know by now the US government’s been held hostage by right-wing extremists. These people thought Romney was going to win in a landslide, so reality isn’t their forte. We should absolutely call them…
Network: When Satire Becomes Reality
I just watched Network, the classic 1976 film. I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again: our reality today resembles the satire of the past to an alarming degree. Network predicts the blurring of…
Gas Is Too Cheap
Gas prices are too low. Far, far too low. Within decades we will regret ever charging as little as four dollars a gallon for gas. Divide global oil reserves by global oil consumption and we’ve…
Bush’s “Decision Points” is profoundly surreal
Perhaps others will read it differently, but to me Decision Points reads like the memoir of a trust fund kid who happened to stumble into the presidency.
Wikileaks Is Inevitable. Is it Good?
Time will reveal whether WikiLeaks results in a more open world, a less peaceful world or both. The web made these leaks inevitable; humanity decides their impact.
Stewart, Maddow and the real problem with cable
I don’t think the focus on left-versus-right controversies is the problem with the American media. I think it’s a symptom of a deeper issue: the almost complete non-existence of international political news on those channels.
What Impact Will The Peace Prize Have In China?
A week after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo it’s unclear what impact the news will have. People there largely don’t know who Liu Xiaobo, a long-time pro-democracy activist jailed in 2008 for speaking out, is.