Bob Hayes

thenewinquiry:

Monologue from The Cruise (1998)

The image makes me think of this conversation with this woman the other day. She was this fastidious Judaic type woman in very sexual slacks and we were talking about the grid plan. And I made the comment that the grid plan emanates from our weaknesses—this…

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Related piece from 2008

They totally called this in that movie (and book) The End of Suburbia.

loveandrage:

“Hemmed in by property tax limitations, cities were compelled to increase revenue by the easiest route: expanding urban boundaries. They let developers plow up walnut groves and vineyards and places that were supposed to be strawberry fields forever to pay for services demanded by new school parents and park users.”

h/t Julia

From the article:

The fiction of democracy remains useful, not only for corporations, but for our bankrupt liberal class. If the fiction is seriously challenged, liberals will be forced to consider actual resistance, which will be neither pleasant nor easy. As long as a democratic facade exists, liberals can engage in an empty moral posturing that requires little sacrifice or commitment. They can be the self-appointed scolds of the Democratic Party, acting as if they are part of the debate and feel vindicated by their cries of protest.

Much of the outrage expressed about the court’s ruling is the outrage of those who prefer this choreographed charade.

The housemate Malcolm also wrote a piece on his blog the same subject:

If prisons exist to make us think that we’re not always in prison as says the philosopher Maurice Blanchot, then campaign finance laws exist to make us think corporations don’t already influence how we see campaigns.

Somali “pirates” have indicated that they wish to contribute some of their liberated loot to folks in Haiti. Solidarity.