The Best Article I’ve Read On The Banking Situation
Anything that is too big to fail is too big to exist.
Puppy-loyal and wholly inoffensive
From Esquire’s The Man Who Made Obama: “Campaign manager David Plouffe got the first black president elected. Now he’s moving on to something even more difficult, and potentially more important.” [Hat tip to Adam for the link]
Wheee!
From the Atlantic’s How the Crash Will Reshape America: “No place in the United States is likely to escape a long and deep recession. Nonetheless, as the crisis continues to spread outward from New York, through industrial centers like Detroit, and into the Sun Belt, it will undoubtedly settle much more heavily on some places [...]
I Have A Warm Feeling
As I was reading how Obama counters Bush on auto standards, I was overcome by a warm feeling. President Obama is doing things that just make common sense, and it’s what this country has been missing for the last decade.
With the recession at full speed, it’s comforting to know that that things are changing. We [...]
Day One…and yet
This blog has never known a Democratic president. Created in the summer of 2004, Fluid Imagination has alway looked at the man inside the White House with complete distrust. That skepticism turns up in the thousands and thousands and thousands of words we’ve written about President George W. Bush these past five years, and it [...]
Art In An Obama Nation
From The New Republic’s Obamalot: [The] danger when we talk about the relationship between the arts and the nation is that everybody all too rapidly descends into parochialism. There are the utilitarians, who are convinced that art education is important because it improves children’s more general cognitive skills; there are the populists, who think that [...]
Yeah, those guys were kinda dumb
From the Atlantic’s The Founders’ Great Mistake: “Who is responsible for the past eight years of dismal American governance? ‘George W. Bush’ is a decent answer. But we should reserve some blame for the Founding Fathers, who created a presidential office that is ill-considered, vaguely defined, and ripe for abuse. Here’s how to fix what [...]
The Untied States (cont.)
From Kevin Kelley’s Breakup of the USA: “The fact that the USA will not always be as united, or at least united in the way it is now, is considered, well… unthinkable. But as Juan Enriquez notes in his amazing PopTech talk, based on his book ‘The Untied States of America: Polarization, Fracturing, and Our [...]
Replace “Gen. Brutus” with “Gen. Petraeus”
From US Army War College Quarterly - Winter 1992 issue’s The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012: “A military coup has taken place in the United States–the year is 2012–and General Thomas E. T. Brutus, Commander-in-Chief of the Unified Armed Forces of the United States, now occupies the White House as permanent Military [...]
Depression 2.0
From Boston Idea’s A catastrophic economic downturn would feel nothing like the last one.: “A depression circa 2009 might be a less visible and more isolating experience [than in the 1930s]. With the diminishing price of televisions and the proliferation of channels, it’s getting easier and easier to kill time alone, and free time is [...]
