The brilliance of Mr. Fish! I really need to start including him in my cartoon roundups.
His take on Obama v. Wright is especially trenchant.
I’m not necessarily saying that I absolutely agree with the cartoon’s comically reductive expression of certain religious beliefs, but its portrayal of the double standard regarding what’s considered fair game for criticism […]
Entries Tagged as 'Harper's'
Mr. Fish on Obama-Wright, That Ad, and the Big Gas Tax Swindle
Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 5th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
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On My Reading List: Naomi Klein’s New Book, The Shock Doctrine
Posted by Ocelopotamus on October 16th, 2007 at 4:32 am
Daily Kos has a review up of Naomi Klein’s new book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Harper’s ran an excerpt from The Shock Doctrine in the October issue which was, as the DKos review says, riveting, and immediately put the book on my must-read list. I’m planning to pick up a copy […]
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Roundup: Skydiving Baby Giraffe Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on August 15th, 2007 at 10:39 am
Out, damned spot! Fox News caught red-handed, laundering entries on Wikipedia. Keep on scrubbing, Lady MacFox, but those stains belong to you always.
The GOP’s California strategy: winning the 2008 election by undoing California’s winner-take-all electoral system. Once the state goes piecemeal, the Repubs gain at least 20 electoral votes from safe GOP districts.
Arianna Huffington looks […]
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Quote of the Week
Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 24th, 2007 at 11:42 am
From an essay entitled “The Middle of Nowhere,” by Edward N. Luttwak, which appears in the July 2007 issue of Harper’s, reprinted there from the May issue of Prospect:
Hardliners keep suggesting that with a bit of well-aimed violence (”the Arabs only understand force”) compliance will be obtained. Yet what happens every time is an increase […]
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Copy Rights and Wrongs
Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 29th, 2007 at 4:18 am
This way-clever video, which I found on YouTube, uses short snips from various animated Disney films to provide an entertaining education on the nature of copyright, fair use, and the public domain.
The daunting reality is that copyright has way gotten out of control in recent years — where once upon a time copyright lasted […]
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Brzezinski on Iraq: Escalation Is “A Nonstarter.”
Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 29th, 2007 at 11:04 am
The April issue of Harper’s Magazine has a lengthy transcript of remarks by Zbigniew Brzezinski speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Feb. 1.
Brzezinski was the National Security Adviser in the Carter Administration, and is currently a professor of foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University. I’m no expert on Brzezinski, and reading […]
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