Robert Reich, from the Berkeley Blog. Here’s the real story. China has a national economic strategy designed to make it, and its people, the economic powerhouse of the future. They’re intent on learning as much as they can from us and then going beyond us (as they already are in solar and electr[...]
Posts Tagged ‘tea party’
January 24th, 2011 - 10:39 am § in America
Talk Show Host Takes Over the Republican Party of Washington
The sad fate of the Republican Party now seems sealed, at least in WA state. Kirby Wilbur, a rabid right wing ideologue of the Beck/Limbaugh school, is now the head of the state committee. Hasn’t the time come for the remnant or rationality in the Republican party to call for something else?[...]
The Tea Party Eats the Republicans
Lugar, the ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations committee, is expected by many to be challenged by a Tea Party-supported candidate when he seeks the Republican nomination for his Senate seat in 2012. After Lugar met with Indiana Tea Party leaders in December, the head of one group said, &#[...]
January 20th, 2011 - 9:14 am § in Uncategorized
Berkeley Chancellor on Campus Violence
Recently the AAUP listserv has run a serious of emails from faculty upset by students involved in a game called “Humans and Zombies.” Apparently, students involved in the game stalk each other on campus and shoot each other with pellet guns that look realistic except for an orange tip on[...]
January 18th, 2011 - 6:56 pm § in Uncategorized
Jerry Brown shows the level of courage no one expects in our state.
Reality surfacing in California by Michael O’Hare from The Reality Based Community Jerry Brown has issued a budget that engages a $25b deficit. Note the word engages; not “papers over” or “hides with wishful thinking” or “lies about”; engages. There’s plenty of work not done [...]
January 18th, 2011 - 1:31 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Guns on Campus
Some months ago I went to a Beck rally armed with faux pellet guns .. gifts to the crown, intended to make a point. I was taken seriously by the Beckies, even invited in (at their cost) to hear the great man speak. But some gun totin liberal friends, including faculty colleagues, tried to scare [&[...]
January 18th, 2011 - 9:00 am § in America
Humor: Listen to this!
FCC: Fox Commits to Civility SNL mocks focks or this (from earlier post): Wonderful NPR parody. fundraising[...]
January 17th, 2011 - 10:26 pm § in America
Rhetoric: Diagnosis by Mug Shot
(updates, original post 14 Jan 2011) On the Berkeley Blog, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, associate professor of psychology, diagnoses insanity via a mug shot and media commentary. He says that the “smiling mugshot of Jared Loughner (has sent) chills down people’s spine.” and then goes on t[...]
Is The Attack On Public Pensions A Commie Plot?
I had a fantasy this morning while sitting in a sports bar watching the Seahawks get their clocks cleaned by the Chicago Bears. Is it possible what increasingly appears to be a coordinated conservative attack on public pensions might be a communist plot? I’m only throwing this out there for[...]