Eisenhower warned us about this so many years ago. Politicians of all stripes, but particularly Republicans, love them some war. The more the better, in fact.
The public’s is losing patience with the Great War on Terror. The national as a whole is experiencing a gradual extinction of the fear response (being replaced with looming financial uncertainty). Conservatives are clearly anticipating the diminishing financial rewards of the Long War, but as a funder of campaign coffers as well as new plunder for profit. Iran is not panning out to be the great threat they had hoped. Simply put, they are running out of war-porn.
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These are my links for August 12th through August 13th:
- Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos - Words - particularly from books - as bodyart.
- The Washington Monthly: The Burbs - Matt points us today to a discussion on the Freakonomics blog about the future of suburbia in the face of increasing gasoline prices. The consensus view is fairly grim, but it reminds me of a few random points about urban land use that have been on my mind for a while. There's no big overarching point here, and nothing especially original, just a few thoughts that don't seem to get much attention in blogospheric discussions of the burbs.
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…over his whining about having to work a 5-day workweek. I wrote the following on his blog…
The Representative's weak argument against a "standard" American workweek and his attempt to substantiate it by saying "Democrats are against families" is what drove the traffic and negative commentary towards the Representative's statement. I personally blogged with glee after reading his verbal misstep. Redirecting the argument towards the place of work, allowing Congress to phone-in or telecommute is certainly NOT what the people of America expect. The 110th Congress is going to be in session, meeting, which is what the people expect, don't they? Not home, not fundraising, but in session, doing the peoples' business.
I have a better suggestion. Rather than inviting a Capital Hill pundit to follow the Representative once, on one day, why not participate in the Sunlight Foundation's Punchclock Project, where Representatives pledge to post their public agenda in a completely transparent manner, so as his constituents (and others who financially support his future candidacies)can get thorough information as to how he spends his time representing the good people of the state of Georgia. I'm sure they'd love to have him.
It appears my comment requires approval or is in the spam filter. Well, whoever blogs for him didn't approve my comment on the post, although they did let a couple of critical comments fly.
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