On September 30th, the House voted so that only the Speaker of the House or one of his designees can end a government shutdown should it transpire. Beforehand, any member of the House could bring up the Senate bill (the CR) to end the shutdown. Looking for a change? You won’t get one.
Meanwhile, the fat CEO laughs and licks his fingers while we turn against each other.
It gets even better when you imagine him saying it as God. Who would, probably, say the same thing.
The Article: Will Work for Inspiration by David Byrne in Creative Time Reports.
The Text: I’m writing this in Venice, Italy. This city is a pleasantly confusing maze, once an island of fortresses, and now a city of tourists, culture (biennales galore) and crumbling relics. Venice used to be the most powerful city in Europe—a military, mercantile and cultural leader. Sort of like New York.
Venice is now a case study in the complete transformation of a city (there’s public transportation, but NO cars). Is it a living city? Is it a fossil? The mayor of Venice recently wrote a letter to the New York Review of Books, arguing that his city is indeed a place to live, not simply a theme park for tourists (he would like very much if the big cruise ships steered clear). I guess it’s a living place if you count tourism as an industry, which I suppose it is. New York has its share of tourists, too. I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?
In the 2012 Republican presidential election primaries, silver-streaked pariah Jon Huntsman made a bold–and politically fatal–proclamation when he said that he trusted the scientific community’s consensus regarding climate change. “Call me crazy,” Huntsman mused. Sadly, in a sea of willful incompetence currently bleeding bright Republican red throughout the United States, Huntsman’s anomalous strand of reason might very well be viewed as “crazy”. But for the real crazy–the terrifying, spine-tingling crazy that has the potential to work its way into the congressional record and subsequent laws–look no further than these 15 petrifying GOP quotes on science:
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