I’ve neglected my own blog a bit as I’ve been posting to the Eat the State! blog lately. As we wait to see how deeply The Crazy has infected the American electorate, here are a couple things I posted at ETS! in October with a few awesome video links reflecting on the ways that The [...]
Posts Tagged ‘political cartoons’
21 Mar
The Rules Are No Game: Time to End Corporate Rule
Anthony Wilden, with whom I studied communication theory and systems theory in college, wrote a book called The Rules Are No Game. The phrase has long stuck with me as a terse encapsulation of the idea that all systems—from computer operating systems to sporting events to political systems—operate according to certain underlying rules. Those rules [...]
1 Jan
Looking back at 2009
Some things just got weirder in 2009. Tom Tomorrow looks back at the year in crazy. Although the wingnuts are easy to laugh at, they should not be taken lightly. They are poisoning public discourse and encouraging misinformed and unstable people to greater misplaced anger and extremism. Many of those people, let’s remember, are armed [...]
19 Aug
In search of passionate intensity
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” —”The Second Coming,” W.B. Yeats My previous post advocated for more passionate intensity from the sensible majority in this country and our representatives in government. Without that, the worst will win. So I was very glad to see signs that organized labor [...]
