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meme machine
The Obama meme machine. Not impressed? There is little doubt that Barack Obama’s unique relationship to popular culture contributed to the mystique of Obama as brand and marketing phenomenon like no other, completely masking the reality of the president being … Continue reading →
the shovels are ready: funeral time
It didn’t take Nate Silver to inform our electoral sensibilities that the Republicans would get their asses wiped. Or as Bob Dylan once sang, “I don’t need the weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.” Lame candidates, too … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama 2012, Bob Dylan, condoleezza rice, Conrad Black, Conservative Party of Canada, David Frum, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marquess of Salisbury, Nate Silver, Paul Taylor Pew Research, Piet Mondrian, Ronald Reagan, Stephen Harper Prime Minister
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controlled demolition
The message of conservatism is at least as equally valid as liberalism, but what we saw, as spectacle over the past twelve months was the effective controlled demolition of a political party. Evidently, the same disease that will hollow out … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barack Obama 2012, Conrad Black, David Frum, Edward Hopper, George Allen Virginia, Jack Levine paintings, john french sloan, John Sloan art, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mitt Romney 2012, Richard Mourdock, Scott Brown GOP, Stephen Harper, Todd Akin, Warren Buffet
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and the beat drones on
The war on terror. Its long way from those hobby remote controlled planes of forty years ago with 1200 horsepower twenty-eight foot wingspan weapons of today. The aesthetics of the war on terror, frightingly, resemble the artistic sensibilities of Marinetti’s … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barack Obama 2012, bauhaus design, Dada Art, Drone warfare, Filippo Marinetti, IAF heron TP, Israel Fisher Institute, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Pakistan drone strikes, Peter W. Singer, Steve Paikin, Yemen drone strikes
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lined with silver: the goodness of fit
Conservative pundits hate Nate Silver, but rhetoric as the election proved, is no match for science. And polling is a science and Silver nailed it. He has changed the optic on how we take the pulse of our politics and … Continue reading →
good morning little schoolgirl
…or boy. happy days are here again. To see Ed Koch doing a video for Barack Obama 2012 is almost a jumping the shark moment. To see this uncle Festus derivative with the prop of a Jewish menorah is slimy … Continue reading →
teamwork in the heart of the country: fun with guns
Everything is a “price tag” policy. It keeps the Macbeth pot boiling letting the passionate vapors intoxicate the kooky from vandalizing cars in annexed East Jerusalem, rustling goats and sheep in the West Bank, war crimes in Syria, Francois Hollande … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barack Obama 2012, Charles Le Brun, Charles Le Brun paintings, francois hollande, Free Syrian Army, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Dubuffet, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mahmoud abbas, Max Horkheimer, Mitt Romney 2012, Mohammad Rafei Syrian actor, Paul McCartney, shimon peres, Simon Vouet, Walter Benjamin
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tough without a gun
David Maraniss, as a takeaway in his biography of Obama, sets the context for an implied view of Obama as a man who operates on the premise that there are no inner core values to be disconcerted about. In this … Continue reading →
2 minute warning
According to Nate Silver, there is approximately a one seventh chance of Romney getting the presidency. The statistical equivalent of being down by a field goal with three minutes to play. Maybe being down by a run with two outs … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barack Obama 2012, david axelrod, Groucho Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marx Brothers Horse Feathers, Mitt Romney 2012, Nate Silver pollster, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Sergei Eisenstein, Walt Disney, Winston Churchill
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sign of the times
The Sign Museum in Ohio as sign of the times….The love of looking back but an equal fascination with what Joseph Schumpeter called the creative destruction of capitalism. And if there is anything Americans dislike, its the status-quo, albeit the … Continue reading →
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Tagged American Sign Museum Cincinnati, Barack Obama 2012, ed koch, Jeremy Bird Obama, Joe Scarborough Fox, Joseph Schumpeter, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michael Lewis Obama's Way, Mitt Romney 2012, Nate Silver, Nate Silver pollster, Paul Krugman, Winslow Homer
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