Category Archives: Progressives

Dear Dems and Center for American Progress, Do You Realize UR DOING IT WRONG?

Posted on May 18, 2012 by mikethemadbiologist

And by “it” I mean basic economics. By way of Digby, we come across this post from the Center for American Progress (CAP), which has been tweeted by President Obama’s team, with the following graphic: Michael Linden, an economist for … Continue reading →

Posted in Democrats, Economics, Fucking Morons, Progressives | 2 Comments

Crony Capitalism: Neo-Liberal, Third Way Style

Posted on May 12, 2012 by mikethemadbiologist

Chicago-style corruption isn’t what it used to be. Former Obama chief of staff and current mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel has developed an ‘infrastructure trust’ to repair Chicago’s roads, rails and schools. Naturally, needless rent extraction by private entities is … Continue reading →

Posted in Bidness, Progressives, Propaganda | 2 Comments

We Need to Rebuild, Not Stimulate

Posted on May 10, 2012 by mikethemadbiologist

And in some cases, build new stuff. Like a smart electrical grid–not that my desire to do so has anything to do with part of Boston’s power grid going down. Again. One of the things I hated during the discussion … Continue reading →

Posted in Fucking Morons, Progressives | 1 Comment

Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: The Co-opted Sierra Club Edition

Posted on April 3, 2012 by mikethemadbiologist

Author and environmentalist Sandra Steingraber explains her decision to ‘break up’ with the Sierra Club (boldface mine): But more than a month has past since your executive director, Michael Brune, admitted in Time magazine that the Sierra Club had, between … Continue reading →

Posted in Bidness, Environment, Progressives

Precocious Progressive Bloggers and Economic Class

Posted on January 14, 2012 by mikethemadbiologist

Admittedly, the full-throttled theocratic batshitloonitarianism on display during the Republican Krazy Klown Kar Circus presidential primary is quite a distraction, but one thing I’ve noticed, especially in the response last year to Occupy Wall Street, is that the precocious progressive … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic Human Decency, News Media, Progressives | 2 Comments

Yglesias: Still Not Getting It on the Derived Property of School Performance

Posted on September 3, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

One of the frustrating things about school reformers is how they treat schools as if they were dry goods to be purchased: do I want the school with or without the bleach additive? Instead, a school’s academic performance is largely … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Progressives | 1 Comment