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June 2009

2009 06 29

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Movies

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Societal Decline

Panel from xkcd webcomicI enjoyed the Mike Judge movie Idiocracy, so long as I could suppress the gag reflex — it’s funny, but gross.

But Randall Munroe’s webcomic xkcd makes an excellent point:

More harm has been done by people panicked over societal decline than societal decline ever did.

By George, he’s got something there. You can click the image to see the complete comic.

Those who aren’t already familiar with xkcd might be startled by the crude stick-figure drawings, or by the crude language sometimes present in the comics. I think those things are simply evidence of society’s decline and inevitable collapse, but I could be wrong.

2009 06 16

Politics

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The Situation We Face

Austan Goolsbee, of the Council of Economic Advisors, appeared Monday on The Colbert Report. Asked about critics like Rush Limbaugh who say they want Obama’s economic policies to fail, Goolsbee said:

Your house is on fire. Guy goes, “Ahhh! My child!” Guy runs in, takes your kid out, saves their life. Now is not the time to accuse them of kidnapping. This is the situation that we face.

The right-wingers have called Obama a Socialist, a Communist, a Fascist, a terrorist, and worse. I expect them to call him a kidnapper within 72 hours.