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G.O.P. Split Over Whether to Waste Time Investigating Benghazi or Repealing Obamacare →
Warning that “the American people don’t have an endless appetite for meaningless political theater,” Cantor added, “If we’re going to do something that’s purely symbolic, pointless, and detached from reality, I say it should be repealing Obamacare for the thirtieth or fortieth time.”
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House of Un-Representatives →
This Republican House is almost like a parallel government, sitting in for some fantasy nation created in talk-radio land.
Sad and true. Worth a read.
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Yemeni Tells Senators About 'Fear and Terror' Caused by U.S. Drones →
For the first time, the Senate heard from someone who lives in a village where U.S. drone strikes are believed to have killed civilians
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Rand Paul would’ve been OK with using drones to hunt Boston suspect →
Rand Paul has gone from wanting guarantees that we wouldn’t use drones against American citizens on US soil to advocating the use of drones against American citizens on US soil in record time.
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"Democracy Has Descended Into Institutionalized Bribery": An Interview with David Graeber →
We’re taught that democracy was like a scientific breakthrough. People discovered democracy, as if people didn’t know how to count beforehand. But what you see when you look at the anthropological record, are countless examples of egalitarian decision making.
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Anheuser-Busch heir resigns life-long NRA membership →
The NRA I see today has undermined the values upon which it was established. Your current strategic focus clearly places priority on the needs of gun and ammunition manufacturers while disregarding the opinions of your 4 million individual members.
They get more money from manufacturers. Dues from individual hunters and sportsmen are meaningless to the bottom line of the NRA.
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Refuse to pay for regulations and safety inspections and then demand others pay for your irresponsibility. Its the GOP way.
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Pirate Democracy? - Why Nations Fail →
In his fascinating book The Invisible Hook, Peter Leeson shows that such democracy was the norm amongst pirate crews who ravaged the Caribbean and other parts of the world in the 18th century. Pirate crews not only elected their captains on the basis of universal pirate suffrage, but they also regularly deposed them by democratic elections if they were not satisfied with their performance.
And all them who agree say Arrrghhhh!
