tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post5304890419471537952..comments2024-02-21T12:11:32.886-05:00Comments on Bats Left/Throws Right: With Luck, The Capitalists Will Innovate A New Knot To Hang Themselves WithJames Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-47200507722644800602011-08-29T20:57:53.771-04:002011-08-29T20:57:53.771-04:00It's fun to watch the pundits try and maintain...It's fun to watch the pundits try and maintain consistency as our politics swerves ever rightward. A moderate conservative from 5 years ago is today's radical Socialist. They're running out of ways to paint Obama as a commie usurper when he has a record that puts him to the right of Reagan.Keithhttp://sanchezkisser.com/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-56817181990277448602011-08-29T12:16:53.686-04:002011-08-29T12:16:53.686-04:00Perry came to my town last week, and I called it: ...Perry came to my town last week, and I called it: He wins the South Carolina GOP primary and if nothing unforeseen happens (and one of my Texan commenters seemed to think he had a few skeletons), I am thinking the ticket will be Perry/Bachmann from the cooing noises I heard.Daisy Deadheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17993200276152025235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-39805702009957845532011-08-28T20:44:30.183-04:002011-08-28T20:44:30.183-04:00Bill Gates deserves an ass-reaming by a barbed-pen...Bill Gates deserves an ass-reaming by a barbed-penis bobcat for every time the word "innovation" has passed his lips. May Beelzebub make it so.M. Krebsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-55900090724715723402011-08-28T14:23:52.278-04:002011-08-28T14:23:52.278-04:00I've been mulling over your recent posts, in a...I've been mulling over your recent posts, in a way. Brief mull interludes between other stuff, would be more accurate. I have also just read the first of the Kurt Wallander books by the Swedish author Henning Mankell, which was written in the early 90s and - in its way - chronicles the shifting of the character's locality toward multi-ethnicity, loss of traditional agriculture and Li'l Innocenthttp://ladysmantle.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-76443174067860679422011-08-28T10:46:08.116-04:002011-08-28T10:46:08.116-04:00In the last few decades, American business "i...In the last few decades, American business "innovation" was mostly confined to finance, where leveraged buyouts, massive layoffs, outsourcing, and the creation of new financial "products" brought the whole house down. So in one sense, Brooks is right about Romney. He was one of the "innovators" (aka "leeches," "bloodsucking parasites," "job R. Porrofattonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-57394197735089474312011-08-26T16:52:12.401-04:002011-08-26T16:52:12.401-04:00How we reach to find candidates may be more like h...How we reach to find candidates may be more like how the system defaults through a mindless maze of mass delusion. That somehow we can pull our asses out of the wringer with this circus act every four years is the ultimate lie we will keep repeating until we finally default to the mad reaper. The crazy batshit one. America the exceptional may just have to test this sad permutation on failure prairie curmudgeonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-37629378350117325802011-08-26T15:56:44.222-04:002011-08-26T15:56:44.222-04:00America may be exceptional in how low we reach to ...America may be exceptional in how low we reach to find candidates for public office. It seems, for instance, that European leaders, while they may be wrong-headed bigots, they are that way despite a fine education rather than relentless pursuit of an aversion to learning and cultivated ignorance. Rick Perry earned Ds in easy classes.<br /><br />As for exceptionalism: among American historians, James Stripeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13437334325501974461noreply@blogger.com