Anti-Statism, Relativism, Prosperity Gospel, etc.
Nov 20, 2009 Cedarville, links, music, philosophy, television
So I took a trip to Myanmar this week. I’ll blog about it later. In the meantime I have a bunch of tabs of stuff I’ve been meaning to share and I’ll have to just dump them w/o much comment because they’re slowing down Firefox. The Atlantic: “Did Christianity Cause the Crash?” by Hanna Rosin. [...]
Tags: Arcade Fire, Arrested Development, Christianity, homosexuality, Judd Apatow, postmodernism, Prosperity Gospel, Ray Lamontagne, recession, relativism, statism
The Great American Bubble Machine
Jul 2, 2009 politics
Matt Taibbi has a really excellent article in Rolling Stone about Goldman Sachs and their financial tomfoolery: “The Great American Bubble Machine.” As usual, Taibbi has good research and good wit: “[Goldman Sachs] is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” [...]
Tags: capitalism, Eliot Spitzer, Goldman Sachs, housing bubble, junk bonds, Matt Taibbi, recession, Rolling Stone, stock market, subprime mortgages, tech bubble, Wall Street
Messiahs & Monomyths
Dec 13, 2008 politics
One of the most interesting pre-election interviews I saw was of arch-conservative Bill Kristol with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show just a few days before the 4th. One of the striking things Kristol said was that “I don’t think [Obama] would be a very radical president. I think he’ll disappoint a lot of people [...]
Tags: 9/11, American monomyth, Bill Kristol, Bush, Daily Show, Fox News, Jon Stewart, McCain, monomyth, myth, Obama, Palin, recession, superhero, William Jennings Bryan, WorldNetDaily