Leaderless leadership

Bryant has a couple of interesting recent posts. In this one he again talks about Brown's rules of form, on how we must draw a distinction to discuss ( or think) anything, yet with each distinction we lose sight both of the unmarked space outside the distinction and the fact that the distinction so drawn becomes invisible to us. And yet we can take this process into account with second order observation, at least opening our distinctions to this excess beyond them, if not the impossible task of grasping the entirety of the unmarked space.

Kansas and the zombie lie

Of trickle-down economics. Maher's special new rule investigates the case of the KS governor imposing this always failed economic theory on his State to disasterous results. And yet regressives, faced time and again with this failure, keep insisting that it just wasn't implemented right. Or something. But never that it always fails because the theory IS a failure.

And worse yet, said regressive Governor was losing in the polls for his reelection until it was revealed that his Democrat opponent went to a strip club in his 20s. Yes, that's all, and yet the idiots of KS think that's some sort of disqualifying criteria and the opponent's lead in the polls has evaporated. So the regressive governor, who has caused real harm to the KS people, might win reelection when his opponent has only looked at boobs in his 20s? Maher's right that many of the American people are just plain stupid.

Maher's monologue

As usual last night touched on current events. The first was on how those health workers in Africa directly exposed to ebola come back to the US knowing full well that they might have contracted the disease, yet have this unshakable urge to go in as many public places as possible to share the infection. Are they just stupid or feel invulnerable because they follow the protocols that have already proven to be ineffective? The second is on a Muslim jihadist, but at first Maher says he must be a good liberal and not mention to what religion he belonged so as not to appear to be a bigot, reminding us of the ridiculous cultural relativism critique from his last run-in with the topic.

Halloween birth

When you drink too much on Halloween

No time

Krugman's horrible idea

He thinks that a Clinton/Warren ticket is a good idea, with Clinton at the President. He surmises that Warren will keep Clinton from going too far right into Wall Street's back pocket. Not likely. If anything, Warren as VP would be muzzled from her current status as the outspoken leader of the progressive movement, along with Senator Sanders. A Sanders/Warren ticket would be formidable, with either one in the lead slot. But could either beat Clinton in the primary? I think both of them could.

Regressives aren't scientists but...

they like to spread misinformation about scientific topics. The very same regressives that deny climate change with the "I'm no scientist" line are quick to spread scientific misinformation when it comes to Ebola. Like you can catch it at a cocktail party. Or it's transmitted through the air. Or Mexican will bring it in. All are entirely made up. What is true is that there is indeed an epidemic, one of fear man-made by the regressives to scare people away from the polls.

What happens when you raise the minimum wage?

In the 13 States that have done so they've reduced unemployment and created more jobs than the States that did not. Them's the facts.

The news sources of liberals/conservatives

Interesting piece on the topic. Not surprisingly, regressives tend to get their news mostly from one source, Fox News. They like to live in a bubble with others of the same worldview. Whereas progressives use a variety of sources and rely more on NPR and the NYT. They tend to be more issue-based instead of ideologically prone like the regressives.