*** August 2012 low content thread ***

So, what you’re saying is, you miss the old Britney.

Whoops

“Oops!.. I Did It Again” was a masterpiece.

Was that the one where she was on the moon, somehow without a spacesuit, and her boyfriend was an astronaut?

Funny you should ask.

What Happens When You Teach Stereotypes Instead of Kids?

Britain warns Ecuador over Assange asylum

Last day at Salon

Man charged in shooting at conservative group HQ

“A Virginia man charged with shooting and wounding a security guard at the headquarters of a conservative lobbying group told the guard he opposed the organization’s politics and had 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches in his bag, federal authorities said Thursday.”

Serious business.

ROLF

Weird… I searched for “low content” and august didn’t show up–I guess I need to search for the month as well to get it.

So, sorry to whichever mod I created more work for by making the duplicate thread.

Heideggar on Marx:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQsQOqa0UVc

One of those cool little quick tidbits out there. Hopefully this kind of alludes to the need of having a Heideggar / Stirner ontology and metaphysics to show the obviousness of many good economic and sociological insights.

Also to how these two social philosophers precede and exceed all a lot of leftist nonese that comes after it - and probably help codify the more clear actions that happened during the “Industrial Revolutiont” and kill off the batshit crazy intellectualisms that were spouted off as a consequence of the intellectual class that rose up because of the “enlightenment.”

REQUEST

I vaguely remember a piece of satire centered around the Sandra Fluke fiasco, in which The Onion or some conservative outlet (or maybe even someone on here) did a whole thing talking about how government should provide something or other…it was all serious and meant to lampoon the whole situation.

Any links?

Greenville County’s Perversion of Public Decency Laws

You Have the Right to Remain Spied On

Left and Right Call for Escalation in Syria

I agree with the analysis of the Syrian Civil War except for this sentence, “Pro-interventionists are confident that a U.S. intelligence community that couldn’t detect the 9/11 attacks and thought Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction can properly tell the good guys from the bad guys (Islamist militants) in the Syrian resistance.” The U.S. intelligence community did have multiple warning signs of 9/11 and multiple sources of evidence that there were no Iraqi WMD, but the government ignored the 9/11 intelligence and manipulated the Iraqi WMD intelligence.

There Ought Not to Be a Law

Entitlement Albatross

The West has Become a Banana Republic

Ben Swann Smacks Paul Ryan Hard

Ecuador grants asylum to WikiLeaks’ Assange

Medicare costs too much, but how to rein it in?

Ryan denied stimulus while quietly seeking it

Holmes doesn’t react to talk of struggling victims

July is deadliest month of 2012 for US troops

Black Hawk crash kills 7 Americans, 4 Afghans

Taliban say they have infiltrated Afghan forces

Wave of attacks rumbles across Iraq, killing 59

Facebook hits new low as IPO lock-up ends

I’m trying, but was there anything that stuck out like a certain phrase or politician? Was Sandra Fluke mentioned? It sounds like the Onion.

Yeah I honestly can’t recall. I don’t think she was mentioned. That’s what makes it so hard. I don’t even remember what the example was, and I think it was because I saw this kind of thing in two different places…perhaps one was just a paragraph or two in a larger article about the whole thing, and the other was a full article of complete satire. I think I’m getting the two confused so I can’t pin down any specifics. Otherwise I’d probably be able to find it.

“What should we do with the losers that are picked by the free market?”, asks Jon Stewart

4 Minutes In 45 Seconds: CNN “Uncovers” Motive Behind Family Resarch Council Shooting

Adam Kokesh on “Why I support Obama”

Ron Paul Supporter Owns RomneyRyan.com - Story Goes Viral

Wow, he interviewed really well. For someone who (presumeably) doesnt go in front of a camera often, that was pretty good.