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Political Gnosticism

  • Demographic Maps @ Patchwork Nation

    Super nice demographic maps on this site. Very well worth the time & effort to study them. As the votes from the 2012 election have trickled in, the size of President Obama’s victory has grown – it’s now more than… Continue reading

  • Class Wars of 2012 – NYTimes.com

    …The important thing to understand now is that while the election is over, the class war isn’t. The same people who bet big on Mr. Romney, and lost, are now trying to win by stealth — in the name of… Continue reading

  • Epistemic Closure & the Reality-Based Center

    The article below is encouraging to me on many levels. I have feared that I was a Texan committing the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy. That is where you cherry pick the evidence to meet the conclusion you want to support. So… Continue reading

  • Fracking and the Fate of the Earth? A Response

    A nice response from my colleague Adam Briggle to the piece I posted earlier, “America’s Secret Fracking War.” Ellen Cantarow has a piece out in Salon today titled “America’s Secret Fracking War.” I wish there was a good word for hyperbole… Continue reading

  • Wall Street Banks Seeking to Confuse Democratic Networks

    This is a very important bit of investigative journalism coming out of TruthOut.org right now. Let me attempt again to make the basic facts clear.  Third Way is not a “liberal think tank.”  It does not take “a centrist approach.” … Continue reading

  • 5 glaring contradictions that sank the GOP – Salon.com

    What Obama’s win, alongside surging Democratic senators, disrupted was the dubious marriage between billionaires dying to own the government and fundamentalists dying to institutionalize universal morality. This election exploded Reaganite propaganda that “big government” is the problem by spotlighting the… Continue reading

  • Political Gnosticism & Far Right Wing Implosion

    Oh, America… your ultra right wing folk have utterly melted down. This gent offers a “stiff-upper-lip comrades, we shall soldier on to save the barbarians from themselves” on the one hand and then succumbs to utter doom on the other.… Continue reading