Nov 08 2010
George Lakoff on the Politics of Language in the Mid-Term Elections
If Independent voters were disgusted with Democratic inaction why did they turn around and vote in the very party that has enabled in part, Democratic inaction? A big part of the reason may be simply that Republicans are better at casting their agenda in terms that many Americans can relate to, whether those terms are honest or not. Republican …
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Just days after the mid-term elections that devastated Democrats, Barack Obama left for the longest foreign trip of his Presidency. With First Lady Michelle Obama and an entourage of security and press, Obama spent the weekend in India, with the goal of strengthening ties with the world’s largest democracy. He marked his trip by paying tribute to the …
The new documentary film Waste Land follows the artist Vik Muniz from his adopted home in New York to his native country of Brazil and the world’s largest landfill, the Jardim Gramacho. At the Jardim, Vik recruits garbage pickers to be photographed. Garbage from the landfill becomes the recycled material that serves as the medium to re-create photos of …
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell yesterday sketched a Republican strategy for the next two years that focuses on obstructionism and ends in 2012 with the election of a Republican President. While campaigning, Republican candidates railed against the stimulus bill and promised to repeal Obama’s healthcare reform legislation. McConnell said his party probably cannot achieve the legislative shake-up it …
Famed hip hop star Boots Riley of the Coup has teamed up with Tom Morello, former guitarist with Rage Against the Machine, and Audioslave, to produce a new EP as the Street Sweeper Social Club. The Ghetto Blaster EP was released this past August and features a cover version of MIA’s Paper Planes from the soundtrack to the film …
On Tuesday Prop. 23, which pitted unemployment anxiety against clean energy policy, was soundly defeated with 60% of California voters opposing it. The campaign to stop 23, dubbed “Stop Texas Oil: Hell No on 23”, successfully persuaded voters that repealing the state’s environmental laws would kill green jobs and exacerbate health problems like asthma. It called 23 the …
