Iran: Creating Our Tonkin Moment?

It’s really easy for people in DC to talk tough and smooth — God knows their pinstripes won’t ever touch Iranian soil.

Republican Irony

How mentally frustrating it must be to lambast the very things that aided you to achieve what you have today.

Romney’s Real Life Story

The Article: Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital by Matt Taibbi in The Rolling Stone.

The Text: The great criticism of Mitt Romney, from both sides of the aisle, has always been that he doesn’t stand for anything. He’s a flip-flopper, they say, a lightweight, a cardboard opportunist who’ll say anything to get elected.

The critics couldn’t be more wrong. Mitt Romney is no tissue-paper man. He’s closer to being a revolutionary, a backward-world version of Che or Trotsky, with tweezed nostrils instead of a beard, a half-Windsor instead of a leather jerkin. His legendary flip-flops aren’t the lies of a bumbling opportunist – they’re the confident prevarications of a man untroubled by misleading the nonbeliever in pursuit of a single, all-consuming goal. Romney has a vision, and he’s trying for something big: We’ve just been too slow to sort out what it is, just as we’ve been slow to grasp the roots of the radical economic changes that have swept the country in the last generation.

The incredible untold story of the 2012 election so far is that Romney’s run has been a shimmering pearl of perfect political hypocrisy, which he’s somehow managed to keep hidden, even with thousands of cameras following his every move. And the drama of this rhetorical high-wire act was ratcheted up even further when Romney chose his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin – like himself, a self-righteously anal, thin-lipped, Whitest Kids U Know penny pincher who’d be honored to tell Oliver Twist there’s no more soup left. By selecting Ryan, Romney, the hard-charging, chameleonic champion of a disgraced-yet-defiant Wall Street, officially succeeded in moving the battle lines in the 2012 presidential race.

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Tearing Us Apart

Not unlike Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” in theme, Ghost Beach’s new track, “Tear Us Apart” relies heavily on a synth-laden 80s vibe and guitar tone but sounds fresh in its own right.

A Tribute To Ted Kennedy

I wish he were around to beat Romney to a bloody pulp — only in debate though, of course.