No BS! Brass Band plays a-ha’s “Take on Me.” I don’t know about you, but I like this cover better than the original.
Far beyond official Washington, we would seem to be witnessing a fraying of the bonds of empathy, decency, common purpose. It is becoming a country in which people more than disagree. They fail to see each other. They think in types about others, and assume the worst of types not their own.
The Fraying of a Nation’s Decency
Very sad but very insightful. Read this one.
You know, there’s not a single solitary example on the planet, not one, of a country that is successful because the economy has triumphed over the government and choked it off and driven the tax rates to zero, driven the regulations to nonexistent and abolished all government programs, except for defense, so people in my income group never have to pay a nickel to see a cow jump over the moon. There is no example of a successful country that looks like that.
“In Tampa, Florida at the CNN/Tea Party Express debate Monday night, the tea party-filled audience literally cheered aloud for the uninsured to be allowed to die.
The moment came during an exchange between moderator Wolf Blitzer and Ron Paul, whose libertarian views often make for good theater at Republican debates.
Blitzer asked if under Paul’s libertarian philosophy, a sick man without insurance should be allowed to die in the hospital rather than have the state pay his medical bills. Before Paul could answer that question, shouts of “yes!” and cheering bubbled up from the audience.”
This is the Tea Party, folks — if you can’t pay, you die. Words fail.
(Source: vildkat)
I’d be remiss if I didn’t list the name of the artist: Robert Smithson.Aerial view of Spiral Jetty (1970), Great Salt Lake, Utah, August 2003. Mud, precipitated salt crystals, rocks and water. Coil: 1500 ft. long and 15 ft. wide. Photographed by David Maisel.
If you like your weekends off, a 40 hour work week, paid vacations, healthcare, or if you simply like the idea that child labor is no longer an accepted practice… thank a union member.
FTW! (thanks, Lisa)
Foxy!
Noel Coward, “There Are Bad Times Just Around the Corner”
