David Gordon has some funny reminiscences about Hayek.
Psychopolitik adds some thoughts on the Olbermann.
Where the state ends – look there, my brothers! Do you not see it, the rainbow and the bridges of the Olbermann?
Archive | May, 2009
Surveiller et Punir
Two great quotations in Ken MacLeod’s latest post on Orwell and the surveillance state:
From Kirstie Ball: “the standard sociological definition of surveillance coincides with the standard organization theory definition of management.”
From Teresa Neilsen Hayden (about Photoshop): “The tools of dictators! In the hands of the people!”
Mumbo Mambo
Check out this musical number from the first Aladdin movie (1992):
And this one from the second Aladdin movie (1994):
Finally, check out this musical number from the Teen Titans episode “Bunny Raven” (2005):
I’m just sayin’.
Jingo Bells, Part 2
Okay, this is my second letter to Olbermann in as many nights. He’s really starting to get on my nerves.
Did I hear you correctly tonight? Okay, David Feherty is a jerk and his comment was idiotic. But were you seriously calling for him to be denied First Amendment protection and investigated by the Secret Service? Shame on you! As soon as your party gets in power you start thinking like Dick Cheney.
The State Says: Pray!
Today, so I hear, is a National Day of Prayer, as proclaimed by our President Incarnate.
It’s worth recalling that Presidents Jefferson, Madison, and Jackson opposed presidential prayer proclamations on church-state separation grounds.
Madison, as President, issued them anyway; Jefferson, by contrast, stuck to his principles (um, er, on this issue, anyway).
Jingo Bells
I just sent an email to Keith Olbermann saying:
I detest Sean Hannity too, but when you start throwing the word “treason” around in criticizing his analogies with the American Revolution, you come across like Joe McCarthy and make Hannity look good. Please leave the jingoistic nationalist rhetoric to the Republicans.