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Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:50:00 +0000

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Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:35:00 +0000

"None of this has anything to do with the historic conservatism of Edmund Burke or John Adams, Russell Kirk or Robert Nisbet. It doesn’t even look like the capacious conservatism of Ronald Reagan. It’s a scam: it does little for values in the culture as a whole because the values in question are those of an ideological minority only interested in winning through minority-organization politics; it can’t look at big-picture economics because doing so would tick off the financial interests and get anyone who broached the question read out of conservatism by Wall Street’s coalition allies. A traditionalist or consistently libertarian critic would be perceived as speaking up for lazy immoral city-dwelling welfare queens. This fanciful identity politics, and not principled economics, is what lies behind talk about "socialism," "big government," and the "47 percent." If the case were otherwise, you’d see the anti-dependency case made against the Pentagon, defense contractors, churches taking government money, and red-state recipients of all kinds of largesse. I don’t see Republicans talking about that, with a handful of exceptions whose last name is usually "Paul.""

"I’m not the biggest fan of Eisenhower or Nixon, but they (and Reagan) are clearly preferable to this post-Reagan Republican Party. Those presidents won national majorities for a reason. They weren’t strict conservatives, but they certainly weren’t any less conservative than the Bushes, McCain, or Romney. They didn’t pretend they were going to abolish the welfare state — often, they didn’t even pretend they would cut the welfare state — unlike so many of today’s Republicans, who don’t follow through but do use their rhetoric to polarize. That gives us the worst of both worlds: big government plus the delusional sense within one party that it represents the antithesis of big government and may freely hate other Americans who don’t mouth the mantra. And what goes for big government goes for Judeo-Christian values, a strong national defense, and all the rest: the GOP’s rhetoric occupies a separate mental compartment from its actions, even as its voters and ideological apologists continue to believe that there is a profound moral difference between them and the rest of the country. It’s a losing strategy, and worse, it’s made the country ungovernable even as government grows."

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Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:13:00 +0000

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Cloned Motion

It's A Scam

RT @KateYule: At $2.5 billion, @MarsCuriosity project costs about the same as 12 days of our war in Afghanistan.

RT @pattonoswalt: I hope @MarsCuriosity finally confirms or denies Elton John's statements re: surface temperature &amp; child-rearing s ...

RT @sherifffruitfly: we went to mars for 20% of the price of the london olympics.

RT @NickInNC: In case you missed it earlier - Curiosity cost $2.5B. Americans spend $7B on potato chips annually. To say we can't afford ...

RT @ricksaunders: My soundtrack album at age eleven:: BUDDY MILES - Them Changes: via @youtube #PLAYLOUD!

Tiger Planking

RT @radleybalko: WTF? -----&gt; RT @ScottGreenfield: New Post: The Happy Police

RT @radleybalko: Awesome dog is awesomeness.

H.P. Lovecraft and Nikola Tesla, Paranormal Investigators

Sex Pistol Action Figures #humanityisdoomed

"Hello! You've Been Targeted For a Drone Assassination!" Helpful Info From Your U.S. Government

Basset Hound mixbreeds

RT @DroneInsertion: DRONES KNOW THE MILK IS BAD. DO NOT BRING IT OVER HERE. DRONES HAVE KNOWN THE MILK IS BAD SINCE BEFORE YOU HAD THE G ...

Kraftwerk seriously rocking out. Koln II - 1971 - Live #krautrock #motorik

Ring of Iranian Bases Threatens US

RT @DamonLindelof: The skill set required to achieve one's yellow belt has changed significantly.

RT @UnlikelyWorlds: RT @jwomack: "In the center of the city was a terrifying bookstore"

Bolivia: Disabled Protesters Vs. Riot Police #holycrap

RT @ggreenwald: Why, when the privacy of the public/private NatlSctyState is violated, do we not hear: if you've done nothing wrong, you ...

RT @dark_shark: Roxy Music: Do The Strand - performed live on British TV show Full House in 1973

An oral history of The Adventures of Pete and Pete , via MetaFilter

RT @bruces *Capitalist Lysenkoism stalks a darkening globe #GothicHighTech

RT @djweir: They have cards for everything, including existential anghst

RT @cstross: Do not pet happy fun spider:

Almost too much wild boar piglet cuteness...Almost

A Cavalcade of Doofenshmirtz Jingles

I need a pair of these

Brief Overview of our Reptilian Overlords

RT @pattonoswalt: I hope @MarsCuriosity finally confirms or denies Elton John's statements re: surface temperature & child-rearing s ...

RT @radleybalko: WTF? -----> RT @ScottGreenfield: New Post: The Happy Police