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 'Infrastructure'
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: Swiftly Tilting Planet Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on September 17th, 2007 at 2:05 am
Eric Alterman has an outstanding column in The Nation on how the media’s mean girls (of all genders) develop the narratives they use to bring down the presidential candidates they take a dislike to. With examples of what they did to Gore in 2000, and what they’re doing to Obama and Edwards right now.
Two of […]
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Jerome a Paris on the Politics of the Market Crash
Posted by Ocelopotamus on August 22nd, 2007 at 12:02 pm
I’ve been meaning to point out this excellent diary Jerome a Paris posted on Daily Kos last Friday, entitled “Politics of the Market Crash.” Jerome is one of my favorite posters at DKos (and at the European Tribune), and when he’s on, he’s really on.
So even though I’m nearly a week late mentioning this, I […]
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Roundup: Ronald Reagan Memorial Bridge Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on August 9th, 2007 at 9:17 am
This is brilliant. Peter Smith at the Huffington Post has a proposal for renaming the new I-35W bridge in Minneapolis that will replace the one that collapsed: “For a while there, back when the Republicans held the White House and both houses of Congress, they were naming things after Ronald Reagan everywhere. Airports. Aircraft carriers. […]
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Bridge to the 21st Century
Posted by Ocelopotamus on August 6th, 2007 at 3:17 am
Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow say pretty much what I’ve been wanting to say about the Minneapolis bridge collapse story.
I hate to say it, but I feel like we’ve just had a “welcome to the 21st century” kind of moment, and this isn’t going to be the last time this kind of preventable disaster […]
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