Monthly Archives: December 2008

Credibility check on aisle 3

Via Barefoot Bum, word on Digg is that one Gerald Celente, who’s predicted the fall of the Soviet Union plus a number of economic crises, is predicted food riots and tax rebellion in 2012. Presently unable to determine whether his record is as good as he claims, anyone who can provide info on whether his [...]

Aboutness of politics watch

Will Wilkinson notes the new t-shirt slogan “I only sleep with Democrats.” Money quote: ““Blue Balled,” the TheTruthThroughAction.org video below, simultaneously reduces politics to fashion and elevates fashion to morality. To fail be a Democrat is depicted as something like an embarrassing fashion faux pas so egregious that it deserves a response of moralized disgust.” [...]