Tag Archives: michelle bachmann

read their lips: talkin’ shop at solomon’s stables

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Dave

…“Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.” (Statement to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., 1957) ….“When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for … Continue reading →

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the blobs

Posted on July 24, 2012 by Dave

Characterizing the idea of “otherness” is the ultimate divide and conquer, and in the case of the Arabs a metaphor for the word “backwards” homogenously spread over a large swathe of the globe and a sub-category for Islam in general. … Continue reading →

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a thurber carnival: happy days are here again

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Dave

The black, memorable year of 1929. Its 2011, three years since the great recession and the economic needle won’t budge.Employment is worse. And the housing crisis and foreclosures show little improvement. Are we in a socialized version of the dirty … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Barack Obama 2012, Ben Bernanke, charles krauthammer, Dorothy Parker, Eugene Delacroix, Gov. Rick Perry, James Thurber, Jonathan Swift, Konrad yakabuski, kyle crichton, Mae West, Mark Steyn, max eastman, michelle bachmann, Noam Chomsky, Paul Krugman, Pecora Commission, Tod Browning Freaks 1932, W.C. Fields, William Saroyan | Leave a comment

shifting mainstream: a murky sideshow

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Dave

You have to wonder whether the current, almost virulent anti-Arab and Muslim invective in America and to some extent in Canada is not induced by a larger effort, principally using the media, in order to enact behavior modification through a … Continue reading →