Post-Peak Liberal: Recent Comments

Comment on The Capitalist Rapture: Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"

2010-01-19T11:40:12Z

Quite inspiring,
I have never heard of Atlas Shrugged before but i am definatley going to give it a good read tonight,
Thanks

Comment on All for Naught: A Decade of Inertia and Illusion

2010-01-12T11:48:52Z

Nice post,

This is a great review..

Anyway, thanks for the post

Comment on Peak Oil -- What Is It?

2010-01-08T11:06:43Z

Hey, that was interesting,

Thats alot to pay for gas! something needs to happen..

Thanks

Comment on Enacting the Right Story

2009-10-15T12:39:05Z

So are you talking about the one right story?

Comment on Lagging Indicator Nation

2009-10-04T19:13:03Z

Well put JR. I agree with your sentiments - yet I also believe that America, in some respects has forgotten that we used to actually "make stuff." Now it's "Made in China or insert 3rd world country here." Americans have progressed to the point that factory work is beneath most, and therefore, has gone elsewhere, cheaper, so we can buy it at a lower cost. Often, better quality - look what is driving on America's roads today - Toyota, Honda, Subaru. America has outsourced itself to the point that has got us in this mess today. You cannot help the software engineer whose basic industry is now in India, and probably won't come back. Companies, enslaved to stock prices and shareholder value have sold out (Hyatt hotels). America no longer values itself or workmanship, rather, the greed factor has skewed everything. It's about profits, not life. Corporate America gave the jobs away.

Until there is a major shift in what American capitalists value, there will be no change. Those who have sold off America are hopefully looking at their unemployed children or grandchildren.

One possible idea is to remain competitive, build things here to sell elsewhere, at a profit, not the other way around. In other words, employ Americans again.

Comment on Palin, Pandering, and Paranoia

2009-10-04T17:36:39Z

JR - admirable thoughts and overall great post. As I listen to Sarah Palin and try to decipher what the hell she is actually saying, I realize she isn't saying anything at all. These are simply rallying cries to appeal to a certain audience (a weak attempt at possibly motivating a-la-Obama) that enjoy a good rodeo.

The GOP typically love a beauty queen, McCain's first wife was a swimsuit model who was tragically maimed in a car accident...in comes model #2, Cindy McCain...and now Sarah Palin. All I can say is thank you Tina Fey and Katie Couric who managed to get the public to think about what this girl is about. Or isn't about.

-CP

Comment on Summer Breezes of Entropy

2009-07-09T01:50:23Z

Jeremy you are sunshine!!!

Comment on All the Rage

2009-06-05T03:09:00Z

Great post Jeremy. I'm a little depressed now. Thankfully, I can wallow in it with an Angry Whopper. I think I got a coronary just reading the ingredients.

Is Limbaugh actually on TV for three hours or just the radio. Good god.

Comment on The President and the Page

2009-02-26T17:02:51Z

Yeah, the Kenneth thing was immediately noticeable to me b/c I was out of the room and could hear him, but not see him.

As for his content, it was vapid at best and disingenuous at worse. It is always annoying when Repubs flog the 'big government' dead horse.

Much of their policy either over-expands government on the military side or they're hell bent on laws that invades personal rights and privacy like gay marriage amendments, anti-abortion legislation, and laws on the local/state levels that attempt to control what people do in the privacy of their own homes -sodomy and/or oral sex is still illegal in quite a few states. When government is reaching directly into your house to control consenting activity, that is a very big government.

Comment on Don We Now...

2008-12-23T14:54:16Z

I read this and immediately thought of a clip of the interview I saw with Pastor Rick Warren. He was asked if he would change his mind on gay marriage if it was scientifically proven that homosexuality was a biological tendency not a "lifestyle choice." His answer was no with the following explanation:

Rick Warren: I'd be happy to tell you why. The reason why is because it doesn't matter to me. If it's biological, we'll be glad to know. We all have biological predispositions. Some people struggle with anger. And other people say, "I don't struggle with anger, but I sure struggle with fear." Some people say, "Oh, I don't struggle with this. I struggle with being shy."

Ann Curry: You're saying if it's part of your biology, it's your job to struggle against it if, in fact, it's the wrong--

Rick Warren: Well, here what I'm saying. I've had many gay friends tell me, "Well, Rick, why shouldn't I have multiple sexual partners? It's the natural thing to do." Well, just because it seems natural doesn't mean it's best for you or society. I'm naturally inclined to have sex with every beautiful woman I see. But that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. And why should I reign in my natural impulses and you say, "Well, because I have natural impulses towards the same sex, I shouldn't have to reign them in." Well, I disagree. I think that's part of maturity. I think it's part of delayed gratification. I think it's part of character.

Full interview: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28298093/

I love that final part where he scares up the old 'gay = promiscuous' mythology playing into the right wing fear of hedonism run amok. And the the interviewer never counters that the idea of gays marrying and being monogamous is antithetical to that argument.