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POPSColor Coded Right-Wing Terror Alert From the comments at the source: Using the color chart Mon, 07/06/2009 - 20:48 — Zenrage Ann Coulter would rank as Infrared. Michelle Malkin would rank as Microwaves And naturally, Rush Limbaugh would be Radio Waves (which is why we will never get his ass of the radio)
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POPSObama Killed Michael Jackson! The first paragraph is from the cigar-sucker's own web page. The rest, and below, is from politicsusa.com. Rush’s comparison does not work. It doesn’t make sense. Partisan politics can’t be applied to something as random as a celebrity death. Ronald Reagan had as little to do with Jackson’s success, as Obama did with his death. Jackson’s talent made him the world’s biggest star in the 80s, not Ronald Reagan, and Obama did not cause Jackson’s heart trouble. The wingnut pundits are doing everything they can to cast Obama in a bad light. He's a tyrant and a dictator, but they descend to trivialities like his choice of mustard or his reaction to a reporter's intrusive ringtone. The cognitive dissonance it takes to agree with these people is becoming more conflicted every day. What's next - blame Obama for the Teapot Dome Scandal?
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POPSGeorge Orwell's Birthday Today is George Orwell's Birthday. Eric Arthur Blair was born on 25 June 1903. Nearly everybody in the English-speaking world has at least heard of, if not read, the iconic books 1984 and Animal Farm , or has at least heard of Big Brother. Less familiar is his work as journalist, essayist, poet and critic. Our language has acquired the adjective orwellian to describe a situation nobody wants to be facing. When I taught writing, my students' first assignment was to write an in-class essay, then read Orwell's essay Politics and the English Language , which is the source of the material in the clip above, then rework their own essay using the rules Orwell recommended. It usually improved their work. However, rereading Politics and the English Language finds me thinking that in the sixty-three years since it was first published, that, firstly, in all this time, few people have taken its advice to heart; (continued in comments)
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POPSThe Real Barack Obama Revealed The Friday edition of a South African daily comic strip. As a resident of the US, it`s interesting for me to take a look at how others see us.
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POPSBulls, Bears, Donkeys and Elephants These graphs compare the growth of a hypothetical investments under Republican vs Democratic administration since 1928. The Republicans have always promoted themselves as the party of economic expansion, but the graphs tell a different story.
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POPSIt's Not Who Votes That Counts... Historical note: Stalin never called himself Josef Stalin; he was known only as "Comrade Stalin". It was a common thing for Slavic political activists to adopt one-word pseudonyms. Similarly, there was no Vladimir Lenin or Josip Tito. Vladimir Ulyanov was First Comrade Lenin (his party card number was #1) and Josip Broz was Marshal Tito.
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POPSToday, We Are All Marxists! Yes, today, everyone has become a Marxist. Groucho Marxist, that is. 2 October 2008, is the 118th anniversary of his birth. A master of wit, who, unlike Don Rickles, made one feel complimented to have been insulted by him. All hail, Marx and Lennon (see http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/laughstore_2013_1230600), and don't neglect to check out the rest of the quotes at the clipsource.
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POPSThe Politics of Fear From the source: First, they were attached to equipment to measure skin conductivity, which rises with emotional stress as the moisture level in skin goes up. Each participant was shown threatening images, such as a bloody face interspersed with innocuous pictures of things such as bunnies, and rise in skin conductance in response to the shocking image was measured. The other measure was the involuntary eye blink that people have in response to something startling, such as a sudden loud noise. The scientists measured the amplitude of blinks via electrodes that detected muscle contractions under people's eyes. Subjects who had expressed a high level of support for policies "protecting the social unit" showed a much larger change in skin conductance in response to alarming photos than those who didn't support such policies. Personal addendum: I disagree with the use of the word "dictate"; it should have been "indicate"
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POPSExtremist Sound Bite Arguments This is from a recently debuted syndicated comic strip. I could say that the character of Mamet (the sheep) reminds me a lot of some of the clippers I encounter here on this site, but I won't.
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POPSBarack Star There's a lot I could say about this, but I'll leave it open for a bit.
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POPSThe Real Value Of Money The original source is an Italian newspaper; it's something on the order of an editorial cartoon. Now that we have the internet, it's easier to see how others in the world see us. Some of us, hopefully, will take this as an opportunity to rethink how we see ourselves. “Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.” — Albert Einstein
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POPSWe Could Use Politicians Like This Again This is excerpted from President Dwight Eisenhower's farewell speech on the cusp of his turning over the White House to John Kennedy. His words clearly show that he placed the good of the people of this country above and ahead of the demands of corporations and special interests. His insight transcends the partisanship that has befouled American politics in the 47 years since this speech was given.
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POPSHealth Benefits of Global Warming Those cold-related deaths are a real problem that needs immediate action. It'll also be a boost for the air conditioning industry and all those Americans who want to flock south for lower wages so they can keep warmer. We might have a problem with heat-seeking Canadians trying to sneak across the border.
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