Posts tagged Politics

I remember sitting on the floor of my friend Mario’s place in the early 90’s, as he put  George Carlin’s Class Clown LP on the record player, and losing myself to laughter as Carlin ran through his “7 words you can’t say on television” bit. Recently, I picked up his Last Words memoirs, expecting myself to howl through several hundred pages of diafragm-rattling material. Surprisingly, although there were many hilarious sections in the book, I found myself looking into a sincere and thoughtful work of self-reflection by one of the most outrageously insightful and incisive social critics in recent memory.

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Here’s the article that goes with the latest Dirk cartoon:

The recent news that Michigan’s economy is bringing in higher than expected tax revenues must strike Governor Snyder’s true believers as a little surprising. Ever since the last piece of confetti fell  at his inauguration, the governor has been hitting the state’s airwaves like some tweaked-out late night infomercial host, raging on about the perils of a cataclysmic budget crisis…

http://critical-moment.org/2011/07/05/austerity-pleasures-a-look-at-the-snyder-budget-crisis/