The Seeker
HE: I clicked your Facebook "election fever" link to your blog and it was about 30 seconds before I could even READ the caption.
ME: I'm just getting people to be politically aware! The Iowa caucuses are next week, after all.
diabola in musica
because perfection isn't easy
Like many others in the nation, I have caught election fever. Luckily, I can satisfy my political cravings daily at 1 PM ET with the Gallup iPhone app. All I need now is the Intrade app and I’ll be set for 2012.
At The Dish, a reader reflects on the first gay first kiss:
Dan Savage wrote: “The growing civil equality of gays and lesbians—from marriage equality in Canada and New York to the end of DADT in the USA—is revealing a lot of things.” Among them, just how non-existent a threat it all was, he says. And I think in retrospect that THIS is what the right was most afraid of. Not that society as they knew if would crumble, or that God would damn everyone. But that things wouldn’t change at all. That their story about hellfire and damnation would be revealed for what it was: pure fiction. And that in large measure, their authority (moral or otherwise) would be diminished.
And it is.
I reject the idea that I am advocating higher taxes for myself and other wealthy people because I’m a good person or because I love you […] Let me just be very clear: I do not love you. I value you as a potential customer, and we have rigged the economic system in a way to destroy my customer base.
It’s clear that the Internet overwhelmingly disapproves of Rick Perry’s latest bid for the Iowa caucus, but it’s also interesting to see who does.
There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody.
You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police-forces and fire-forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory — and hire someone to protect against this — because of the work the rest of us did.
Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless — keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.
The Occupy movement has reached my hometown. I’m not surprised, given the demographic. I wonder where else these protests are happening and who are going. It will be interesting to see who are the people who believe in this movement.
Closer to home, scores of people have been arrested last night at an Occupy Boston event.