Watch: Chris Matthews Tears Up Kevin James on Hardball
Long story short: conservative pundit compares Barack Obama to Neville Chamberlain, the man who gave Hitler half of Czechoslovakia.
Chris Matthews asks James what exactly it was that Neville Chamberlain did. James does not know. He flusters around calling Chamberlain an appeaser for several minutes without ever naming the major historical event associated with Chamberlain’s name.
It’s always wonderful to see pundit’s shallow talking points so blatantly eviscerated. Hee!
oh wow this is absolutely UNBELIEVABLE. We need more history lessons for conservative screaming talking heads.
“ After the terrorist attacks of 2001 deflated the economy, Mr. Lauder noticed that his company was selling more lipstick than usual. He hypothesized that lipstick purchases are a way to gauge the economy. When it’s shaky, he said, sales increase as women boost their mood with inexpensive lipstick purchases instead of $500 slingbacks. ”
Obama cites the ‘Politics of Fear’
In response to GW Bush saying
“We have heard this foolish delusion before…As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American Senator declared: ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler,…
“ Hence gout and stone afflict the human race;
Hence lazy jaundice with her saffron face;
Palsy, with shaking head and tott’ring knees.
And bloated dropsy, the staunch sot’s disease;
Consumption, pale, with keen but hollow eye,
And sharpened feature, shew’d that death was nigh.
The feeble offspring curse their crazy sires,
And, tainted from his birth, the youth expires. ”
(Description of lead poisoning by an anonymous Roman hermit, Translated by Humelbergius Secundus, 1829)
by Q Sakamaki.
I met q while interning at the New Yorker last semester. He just put out ‘War DNA’ with a collection of photographs from the deadliest conflicts in the past 10 years. He has seen the face of death.
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi writes to Schwarzenegger regarding AB 32.: gov.ca.gov/index.php?/press-release/4111/
“ The Presbyterian Church (USA) Carbon Neutral Resolution was a resolution passed at the June, 2006, 217th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) strongly urging all Presbyterians to ‘immediately aspire to live carbon neutral lives’.[1] It is believed that resolution was the first in the world by a major religious denomination for its followers to become carbon neutral.[2] ”
Presbyterian Church (USA) Carbon Neutral Resolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Air pollution dispersion terminology - Thought this was a great infographic for a smoke stack plume.
The Atlas Group : www.theatlasgroup.org/data/TypeA.html
A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as
though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly
contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are
spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned
toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one
single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of
his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole
what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has
got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no
longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to
which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows
skyward. This storm is what we call progress.
-Walter Benjamin
“ This notebook contains 145 cutout photographs of cars. They correspond to the make and color of every car that was used as a car bomb during the civil wars in Lebanon from 1975-1990.” Notebook 38 of Fadl Fakhouri ”
The Atlas group - Lebanon
The STARS OF JSTOR
A search for ‘After’ gets some classics…
Favorite? Afternoon Delight.
John Von Neumann. Mathematical hunk.
Rio En Medio-Let’s Groove (Earth Wind & Fire cover)