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A Tiny Revolution
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"It would have been funny if it hadn't been so terrifying, being in the power of these people who actually believed their own fantasies"
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Fired Up? Ready to Go (Electrocute People)!

The Washington Post just published a big article about how, despite Obamas promises, a deluge of lobbyists continues to inundate the White House. Most of them are for boring companies like Goldman Sa...

22 may 12

Colin Powell Gets Mad at Me

In his new book, It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership, Colin Powell writes this about his 2003 presentation at the United Nations about Iraqs supposed WMD: "I get mad when bl*ggers accuse me ...

10 may 12

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Heres Daniel Handler talking about Maurice Sendak: He inspired every author, from Judy Blume to Daniel Handler, who ever wanted to go a little too far. "Its almost impossible to overstate his imp...

09 may 12

How Can You Prevent People From Expressing Their Feelings Toward Me?

This is from a recent New Republic article by Alec MacGillis about how the hedge fund industry has turned against Obama since 2008: The former Democratic fund-raiser reminded me that masters of the u...

03 may 12

The Lighter Side of Torture

Jose Rodriguez, former Director of the National Clandestine Service at the CIA, has written a book called Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives. It turns out that ...

30 apr 12

The Two Constituencies of Liberalism

This is from the 1987 book Mortal Spendor: The American Empire in Transition by pundit Walter Russell Mead: [Jimmy Carter] decided there was room on the national state for a politician dedicated to t...

24 apr 12

Taking Responsibility

By: John Caruso Ive mentioned in passing here that I worked with the International Solidarity Movement in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during Israels 2002 invasion.  After many years Ive fin...

19 apr 12

A Heart-Breaking Work of Staggering Meh

Finally, an angry reporter looks back at the past few years and tells it like it is: ...financial journalists have developed into a group of incompetent lackeys who were puffed up with self-importanc...

23 mar 12

Americas 300 Year-Long Lucky Streak Continues

One of the great things about being American is were just lucky. Lots of countries have killed millions of people, and it made their families really angry and sad. So the countries sometimes had to f...

21 mar 12

So All Politicians Everywhere Feel the Same

This is from USA Today: The frustrations of the presidency once had Barack Obama reach for a literary metaphor. "At times he couldnt help feeling, as he told one associate, a kinship with the pro...

20 mar 12

Mad

This is from an article by Jennifer Homas, Tony Judts wife, about him writing his last book as he was dying from ALS: The political manipulation of fear made Tony angry. Not upset or disappointed or ...

03 mar 12

Dear President of the United States: Please Stop Being FUCKING INSANE

What interests me the most about politics is the way power turns essentially everyone who gets it into a lunatic. Its especially striking because you generally cant rise to the top without amazing em...

02 mar 12

The Y Chromsome Is the Scariest Chromosome of All

I guess if I were a more sensitive man, I wouldnt be so surprised by the ongoing right-wing male freakout about women. I just didnt realize how deep and sincere their...emotions...are on this. For in...

01 mar 12

You Are Not Not Mistaken

In one of the Stratfor emails released by Wikileaks, George Friedman, the head of Stratfor, writes this after someone has mentioned Pearl Harbor: ...while we are at it a moment to remember those that...

01 mar 12

Lying the World Into War Is Always an Option

This is from p. 84-5 in Which Path to Persia?: Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran, a June, 2009 book edited and co-authored by Kenneth Pollack of the Brookings Institution: ...absent a c...

29 feb 12

Meet the Lets Shove Stuff Inside Other People Against Their Will Party

Politics has almost nothing to do with finely-crafted op-eds and reasoned discussion, and almost everything to do with the dark murk churning in our psyches. Everyone of every political persuasion ha...

20 feb 12

Missing Hammer

By: John Caruso Truer words were never spoken: [T]he Obama administration ... has brought more prosecutions against current or former government officials for providing classified information to the ...

16 feb 12

No More Poems

Im sorry to see that the Giant Mouth That Eats Everything has gotten the Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska. She just died in Krakow at age 88. Szymborska somehow won a Nobel Prize for writing poetry tha...

02 feb 12

Pulling a Tooth for Mandy

This 1865 letter from Jourdan Anderson to his former owner in Tennessee has been circulating online for a while, but I just saw it yesterday. It seems too beautiful to be real, but apparently its gen...

01 feb 12

À La Recherche des Homemade D&D Modules Perdu

One of the weirdest things about brains is how theyre filled with a giant jumble of memories that you paradoxically cant remember you have without help. Like everyone except Marcel Proust, I usually ...

30 jan 12

Clarification

By: John Caruso Actually, accusing people like Haim Saban and Sheldon Adelson of "dual loyalty" is deeply offensive.  Their loyalty to Israel is second to none. ADDED BY JON: Sorry to pi...

29 jan 12

State of the Illusion

By: John Caruso For anyone on the left whos tempted to relapse into 2008 euphoria by the presidents early-campaign turn to rhetorical populism, this remains as true as it always was: Obama is not you...

25 jan 12

Why I Support SOPA

I support SOPA because it will formally transform the United States into a communitarian paradise. Just look at its official description: To promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and inno...

20 jan 12

This Sentence Is False

By: John Caruso In protest of SOPA/PIPA there will be no postings whatsoever on ATR today.  If youre looking for a way to register your dissent, head on over to the Electronic Frontier Foundatio...

18 jan 12

I Paid Gingrich

The worlds billionaires clearly plan to rerun the 20th century and see if it turns out differently. Given that, during a brutal economic downturn we should be on the lookout for what happened in the ...

15 jan 12

Matt Taibbi EXPOSED

I just got Matt Taibbis book Griftopia as a present. Here he is writing about Ayn Rand: ...some of Rands quirks seemed to have been pulled more or less directly from [Woody] Allens movies; her dictat...

02 jan 12

Christopher Hitchens: Wow, What an Asshole

One of my New Years resolutions for 2012 is to be even more boring and petty than normal. Here we go! My friend Sam Husseini at the Institute for Public Accuracy has written a long post about his int...

02 jan 12

Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting Continues Its Disgusting Apologetics for the Corporate Media

Are there no depths to which the lickspittles at FAIR wont sink in their desperation to kiss the corporate states jackboot? Apparently not, as youll see in this post. Chief FAIR propagandist Peter Ha...

18 dec 11

Letter to a Lost Friend

Please read this from Dennis Perrin: Christopher -- I hoped it wouldnt come to this. Writing to you after youve died. As you know, Ive reached out to you since a mutual friend told me of your illness...

16 dec 11

Thank You, Tablet

A few days ago I apologized to Tablet Magazine for some of this post. After thinking about it, I realized that I should also thank them for several things: 1. Everyone tends to think the worst of peo...

16 dec 11

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