Teabagging chronicles

Yesterday was teabagging day for the conservatives. Yes, they teabagged themselves in support of lower taxes. This is a teabagging picture that sums up the real issues... These photos seems to have been taken in Houston, Texas (where else)... 

The news this morning was that the Lone Star state would now like to secede from the United States. It is interesting to note that while the real debate should be around healthcare, immigration, education and energy the conservatives feel that this is the time to go around teabagging each other and talking secession...

Source: Reddit and Flickr. More photos here.

Teabagging day

Our conservative friends are teabagging today (oops, sorry! make that tea partying).

Edward Weston, Shard, 1927, Vintage gelatin silver print

Toon

Seen in the March 9, 09' issue of the New Yorker magazine.

Buckley buckles

I was at lunch today and a colleague told me over the cutlery clashing din on Stone Street that Christopher Buckley, son of the super-arch conservative William F. Buckley endorsed Obama. I really did not believe him, but I got back into work and indeed, there it was...

"This campaign has changed John McCain. It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget “by the end of my first term.” Who, really, believes that? Then there was the self-dramatizing and feckless suspension of his campaign over the financial crisis. His ninth-inning attack ads are mean-spirited and pointless. And finally, not to belabor it, there was the Palin nomination. What on earth can he have been thinking?"

Neo-con history lesson

The July issue of Harpers has a superb take on the relatively recent rise of modified neo-conservative sensibilities and its history chronicled from the 1970's to present. It also includes an interesting (and surprising) account of the link between the conservatism, Abramoff brand lobbyists, the erstwhile apartheid government of South Africa and Angolan guerilla leader Jonas Savimbi. Kept me awake during my ride home.