Pat Rock on Mar 5th, 2010RNC document mocks donors, plays on ‘fear’ - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com
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Pat Rock on Jan 21st, 2010Naomi Klein on Branding Taking over American Politics
Naomi Klein on Branding Taking over American Politics
I love this line about Obama’s presidency so far:
Though it’s too soon to issue a verdict on the Obama presidency, we do know this: he favours the grand symbolic gesture over deep structural change every time. So he will make a dramatic announcement about closing the notorious Guantánamo [...]
Pat Rock on Sep 9th, 2009Industry-Backed Label Calls Sugary Cereal a “Smart Choice”
Food Industry “Smart Choices” Label is Dumb Dumb Dumb Is anything better than when giant corporations try to self-police? And by “better” I mean equal measures infuriation and hilarity. Fake for example the “Smart Choices” program initiated by the food industry in which Froot Loops are labelled a “smart choice” based on the fact [...]
Pat Rock on Sep 8th, 2009How Did Economists Get It So Wrong
Nobel Economist Paul Krugman takes the time to detail a brief history of macroeconomics and what it has to do with our current situation:How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? - NYTimes.com.
And Friedman certainly never bought into the idea that mass unemployment represents a voluntary reduction in work effort or the idea that recessions are [...]
Pat Rock on Mar 19th, 2009Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky.
The hot topic on blogs last week seemed to be that the demise of the printed newspaper is inevitable, and with it the entire idea of the fourth estate. The question seems to be whether or not our society can have a meaningful free press if there’s [...]
Pat Rock on Mar 18th, 2009Thinking Out of the Local Organic Box
From Mother Jones: Spoiled: Organic and Local Is So 2009.
In fact, most of the familiar candidates for alternative food would have trouble operating on the kind of scale necessary for a world of 6.7 billion people. Consider what it would take to make our farm system entirely organic. The only reason industrial organic agriculture can [...]
Pat Rock on Dec 19th, 2008Open Letter To Obama: Throw me a frikkin’ bone
Dear Mr. President Elect,
Honestly, if I was in the same room with you I might throw a shoe at you. Except I’m afraid of being detained and beaten
Should I even bother reminding you that a significant number of people who voted for you are indeed that hoary old cliche, “Leftists” with a capital L?
So [...]
Pat Rock on Dec 9th, 2008Volker Warns of Tough Times Ahead
Paul Volker is Back!
Of course everyone is warning of tough times, its the percentage shot, but Volker is actually talking about something different. Amazingly he is calling a spade a spade and saying that American consumption, which drives 70% of the economy, needs to be reigned in:
A child of the Great Depression and a [...]
Pat Rock on Oct 13th, 2008Malcolm Gladwell: Late Bloomers
Malcolm Gladwell’s latest New Yorker piece Late Bloomers is up.
Pat Rock on Sep 17th, 2008Pulp Fiction as Presidential Campaign
JOHN MCCAIN
Everybody be cool, this is a
robbery!
SARAH PALIN
Any of you fuckin’ pricks move and
I’ll execute every one of you
motherfuckers! Got that?!
Obama looks up, not believing what he’s seeing. Under the
table, Obama’ hand goes to his .45 Automatic. He pulls it
out, COCKING IT.
JOHN MCCAIN
Customers stay seated, waitresses
on the floor.
SARAH PALIN
Now means fuckin’ now! [...]