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Illinois senator Dick Durbin has went over to the dark side, and needs to be removed. He’s no longer advocating for the people of Illinois, the people who voted for him, or for the party under who’s banner he ran for the senate. He’s advocating for the plutocracy, and the party who supports corporations. Fuck him, it’s not about the deficit, it’s about the safety net for people without jobs.
It’s about jobs, Dick.
Jobs.
Start looking for one, Dick.
(of course you can tell Dick what you think, here and here.)
Walt Kelly, the author and artist reused this punchline over and over again. I remember always stoppingin a friend’s home, where his dad had the original art from another Pogo strip with the same punchline. It was true every time Walt used it, and it’s true now. Happy Earth Day (from Roger Ebert).
Sometimes it takes a web comic to tell the truth: Spinnerette. Sometimes it takes a Usenet newsgroup quote:
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
–John Rogers, on the blog Kung Fu Monkey, as quoted on rec.arts.sf.written by James Nicoll
I first came across Rand when I was a kid, she advertised in the back of magazines her closed-circuit televised seminars to men-the ads came across as a weird, creepy, and sexist back then. When the world was noticeably more sexist, one of the top songs in the country was “Music to Watch Girls By.” I’ve read some pretty aweful things in my life, but i could never make it through one off her books. She creeped me out back then, coming across as a scary cult leader. Turns out she was much, much scarier.
The very last wall of the very last large building at Chicago’s infamous Cabrini Green low income housing project as seen from a train full of condo buyers eagerly awaiting their units completion on the site. Or something similar.
This time the photo sucks owing to the photographer, not the iPhone.
Too bad it’s not an unemployed broker. Or trader. Or hedge fund manager. Or banker. Or…
From an adventure on the South Branch of the South Fork of the Chicago River this weekend. I like bridges.
