Congratulations to the Mustache of Understanding, Thomas Friedman, Eschaton's Wanker of the Decade!
For more on why this is such a well-deserved honor, check out one of the best takedowns of an inexplicably popular author since "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses."
I also want to recommend James K. Galbraith's The Predator State, which I'm a few pages from finishing, as the most eye-opening and original take on America's recent economic history I've read in a while. I suck at explaining what's so great about this sort of book, but it's good stuff.
These things are related because in the course of reading the Galbraith, my opinion on the "stupid or evil" conundrum of current political leadership shifted decisively towards stupid. (Of course, any sufficiently advanced stupidity becomes difficult to distinguish from evil.) Good grief, our leadership are together enough to pour piss from a boot with instructions on the bottom, but damn little else. As I've said before, it really is all about dying with the most toys, and they don't even care who they take down with them.
(Edited to swap links to a better one of the Taibbi article, which includes the Get Your War On strip that introduces the Mustache of Understanding.)
For more on why this is such a well-deserved honor, check out one of the best takedowns of an inexplicably popular author since "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses."
I also want to recommend James K. Galbraith's The Predator State, which I'm a few pages from finishing, as the most eye-opening and original take on America's recent economic history I've read in a while. I suck at explaining what's so great about this sort of book, but it's good stuff.
These things are related because in the course of reading the Galbraith, my opinion on the "stupid or evil" conundrum of current political leadership shifted decisively towards stupid. (Of course, any sufficiently advanced stupidity becomes difficult to distinguish from evil.) Good grief, our leadership are together enough to pour piss from a boot with instructions on the bottom, but damn little else. As I've said before, it really is all about dying with the most toys, and they don't even care who they take down with them.
(Edited to swap links to a better one of the Taibbi article, which includes the Get Your War On strip that introduces the Mustache of Understanding.)