"To demonise state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst."
Random noise from Chris's brain.
October 19, 2009
October 1, 2009
F. A. Hayek, Arch-communist
“Nor is there any reason why the state should not assist the individuals in providing for those common hazards of life against which, because of their uncertainty, few individuals can make adequate provision. Where, as in the case of sickness and accident, neither the desire to avoid such calamities nor the efforts to overcome their consequences are as a rule weakened by the provision of assistance … the case for the state’s helping to organize a comprehensive system of social insurance is very strong… Wherever communal action can mitigate disasters against which the individual can neither attempt to guard himself nor make the provision for the consequences, such communal action should undoubtedly be taken.”
September 24, 2009
A Great Need
Out
Of a great need
We are all holding hands
And climbing.
Not loving is a letting go.
Listen,
The terrain around here
Is
Far too
Dangerous
For that.
(Hafiz, 14th c.)
September 15, 2009
Principled Opposition
I don’t agree with Sullivan on most of his policy positions (surprise, surprise) but I do respect that he at least tries to be a voice of reason:
The protestors keep saying that they want their country back. Sorry, my fellow small-governmenters, but this country is a democracy, and you didn’t lose your country, you just lost an election. You had your chance for eight years. You blew it, and you lost. What Obama is doing is what he was elected to do. The principled response is not a massive, extremist-riddled hissy fit a few months in, but a constructive set of proposals to build on universal care for a more market-friendly and cost-conscious system in the future. You have to win some political credibility for that; and then you have to beat the man you lost so badly to last year. That’s the civil and civilized way forward for the right. It also seems, alas, to be the one they are currently refusing to take.
Not that anyone on the right is listening, of course.
May 5, 2009
Best Song Intro Ever
“…It’s about how when you can’t be with somebody, that maybe you weren’t ready to not be with… and you try your best to, you know, not obsess and be uncool, you know… but maybe the situation is that every so often, when things are weird for them at home they, they still holler at you and break you off a little chunk, and … and you know you shouldn’t, but … but from where you stand, still all helpless and in love, a little chunk is better than nothing, even if it makes you sit at home drowning in self-contempt, ruins your whole workday, you just stand there for eight hours, just hoping to fuck that that guy you hate asks you how you’re doing, so you can look at him and lie and go, ‘I’m fine,’ just so you can make him wear that.
This song is kind of about how you feel in that kind of a situation.”
April 27, 2009
"If you’ve seen one flu pandemic, you’ve seen one flu pandemic."
April 13, 2009
Waste not
The electricity the average American uses in their lifetime results in 68 tons of solid waste when generated using coal.
If produced by nuclear power, the same lifetime energy load results in 2 pounds of solid waste.
March 28, 2009
"The New York Yankees — the Microsoft of baseball teams."
March 10, 2009
"There is no such thing as ‘no movement’."
— Martha Graham
March 9, 2009
Just saying.
I’ve been (forced) to be working on a Windows machine for just about a month now. In that time, I have had to reboot it more than BOTH my Macs have been rebooted all year.
