A lot of games seem “angry” nowadays. You are a criminal; a soldier; a great injustice has been committed and you need revenge, etc. These are all fine, and you get a sense of “accomplishment” in these games. However, there seems to be a movement towards “egoless” games lately. Wii Sports is like that. No room for ego!
The often cited Glenn Greenwald profiles Mel Martinez, a monumental hypocrite. He joins the rogues gallery of Cuban-Americans with historical amnesia alongside, for starters, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
Without the contradictions rife in the Batista regime, Castro could never have laid claim to the cause of freedom. If not for the injustice of colonization, the Soviets could not have appealed to the nascent nationalism of independence movements throughout the Third World.
The bad guys claim to power not just by force, but by exploiting frustration and pessimism.
A follow-up to my previous post:
Boing Boing, NPR “Xeni Tech”: Tech Solutions to Iraqi-U.S. Language Barrier
SF Gate: Editor Found Dead in Mexican Hotel Room. Par for course.
I don’t have the energy to synthesize – and why take my word for it – but reading at least the last six posts (they’re short, think “breath mints”) on the following blogs should give you an impression of one compelling consensus view on the election. Ranked in order.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/
For an interesting take on who the U.S. Congress should investigate first, along with similarly clever observations on strategy in practice, try http://plumer.blogspot.com/.
Finally, and via Digby above, The American Prospect Online documents the many dirty tricks employed by the Republicans to tamper with the U.S. election. (Evidence of equivalent Democratic activity welcome but I’m not holding my breath.)
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Some keywords: realignment, the South, the North, clarity, emergence, lying, lies, data, polls, truth, retreat, epoch, shift, pendulum, consensus, conservative movement. Does this do it?