See Also: A Million Little Donors, Clinton campaign circulates Obama smear photo, Over 1 million Americans donate to Obama’s campaign, Cleveland rocks? Clinton, Obama spar, but did they connect?, Game, Set & Match Obama, and DEM DEBATE, VERSION 20.0.
[tags]barack obama, hillary clinton, big donors, political donations, campaign funds, corporate donors, lawyers, lobbyists, political cartoon, hilarious[/tags]
John Baldessari is a conceptual artist. His work often attempts to point out irony in contemporary art theory and practices or reduce it to absurdity. His art has been featured in more than 120 solo exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe.
[tags]i am making art, john baldessari, conceptual art, absurdist, videos, crazy art[/tags]
Reminds me of the story of the 60 year old man that got a 25 year old to marry him. When his friends asked how he did it, he replied, “I told her I was 90.”
Warren Buffet is pretty interesting:
http://undergroundvalue.blogspot.com/2008/02/notes-from-buffett-meeting-2152008_23.html
“He thought that there was no difference between Al Gore and George Bush, and, eight years later, I think people realize that Ralph did not know what he was talking about.” – Barack Obama
See Also: Cartoon via Washington Post, Nader Again: A Snare and a Delusion, Ralph Nader Announcement, My Only Post on Ralph Nader, Lebanese Nader Calls Obama Pro-“Palestinian”, Nader Talks About Palestine and Impeachment, The Audacity Of Complacency In The System, and RALPH NADER ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
[tags]2008 election, ralph nader, republican, change and experience, barack obama, corporatism, corruption, democracy, independent, green party, democrats, liberal, political cartoon[/tags]
“I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.”
Alexis de Tocqueville, in Democracy in America
In Democracy in America, published in 1835, Tocqueville wrote of the New World and its burgeoning democratic order. Observing from the perspective of a detached social scientist, Tocqueville wrote of his travels through America (both in the United States and Canada) in the early 19th century when the market revolution, Western expansion, and Jacksonian democracy were radically transforming the fabric of American life. He saw democracy as an equation that balanced liberty and equality, concern for the individual as well as the community. A critic of individualism, Tocqueville thought that association, the coming together of people for common purpose, would bind Americans to an idea of nation larger than selfish desires, thus making a civil society which wasn’t exclusively dependent on the state.
[tags]alexis de tocqueville, intellectual, reflections on america, quotation, quote, independence of mind, freedom of discussion, freedom of speech, democracy in america, civil society[/tags]
