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Category Archives: Creeping Totalitarianism

Yet another Modest Proposal

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

It seems clear that the chink in the armor of the National Security State is the fact that a lot of normal human beings-the kind that have consciences and know right from wrong- are given access to state secrets. It can’t be avoided. We need drones to handle this stuff. There is only one solution. [...]

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The least surprising news of the year

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Why am I not surprised that the NSA is monitoring our phone calls? Why am I not surprised that this intrusion into our private lives is the one issue in which the cherished goal of “bi-partisanship” has been reached, for Congressional Democrats and Republicans alike seem to think it’s great. The real question is: why [...]

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Storm is threatening

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

I wrote last year about the likelihood that we’ll be seeing right wing movements in Europe, as the bankers put the screws to the common folks so they can preserve their own privileges. Since the Greeks are getting screwed the most, it only stands to reason that it’s most likely, especially given recent Greek history, [...]

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The Keyboard Commandos Get Their Due

Thursday, February 14, 2013

This was one of my favorite Gary Larson Far Side Cartoons: Of course, back in those innocent days, no one could have expected that there really would be rich rewards for saving the Princess, much less that the military would be awarding medals to men and women who bravely rain death and destruction upon the [...]

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Puzzling

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Obama is damned by the right wing for claiming to shoot skeet, something they absolutely refuse to believe he does, not that it matters. They accuse him of violating our liberties because he made an incremental change in the law that might enable more people to afford still overpriced health care. They would love to [...]

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Hey Paul, over here!

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Paul Krugman, perceptive as always: Just a quick note: one thing I don’t think has been sufficiently emphasized as we stare a euro disaster in the face is the amount of damage this will do to the overall European political landscape. Across most of the periphery, both sides of the usual political divide have been [...]

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Is it possible? One small step?

Monday, June 25, 2012

A stopped clock is right twice a day, so why can’t a stopped Congress get it right once in two years? Suggesting that something good can even come from the reflexive anti-Obamaism of the modern day Republican party, we learn that there is a bi-partisan movement afoot to severely curtail the government’s use of the [...]

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Bad Moon Rising

Thursday, June 14, 2012

  I’ve argued a couple of times (e.g, here) that European austerity may pave the way for a return of authoritarian regimes. Krugman makes the same point here.  

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Joe McCarthy redux

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Allen West one-ups Joe McCarthy. At least McCarthy claimed to have the goods on his targets and claimed to have them written down. Well, two can play this game. I heard that Allen West has a gay Muslim illegal immigrant lover in Washington and another one in Florida. And I truly did hear it, because [...]

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Big Brother wants to protect us

Sunday, April 1, 2012

It’s probably fair to assume that Orwell was hoping his predictions would be wrong, but probably not like this. Even he could not envision the extent to which Big Brother would be watching out for we little brothers and sisters. How could he, as he had no conception of the type of technology that would [...]

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