01/09/25

Author - Chris Weagel

Chris Weagel writes about the intersection of technology and parenting for Wired Magazine. No he doesn't. He can't stand that shit.

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Nightcap 02/21/11

02/22/11
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Where is the V man now? He is out looking for the thrill. The feeling of worth and value each man gets when he has wrestled with eight-legged reptile men from the center of Iowa and walked away a wiser man.
Perhaps he will find the thrill biting trees in half. Perhaps he’ll find it deep within the dark, stinking earth down where the rabbits have no eyes and they don’t want any either.
Perhaps right now, even as I type this, our good friend V is turning into a man made of gold, capable of unspeakable acts and possessing a sharper sense of justice than any of us deserve.
Godspeed, Mr. V, Godspeed.

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SHOCK DOCTRINE

02/21/11
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But maybe parts of the world are realizing that it’s all bullshit. With the Wall Street bailouts in particular, folks have noticed that while governments are cracking down on pesky workers, it’s those same people that have paid for the bailouts, and for a system that does not ultimately serve its people but, instead, a select few who have no intention of trickling down anything.

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CREDIT DUE

02/21/11
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By chance I look up at the TV Channel and catch the end credits of a terrible program called “Yehweh TV” which features Christian children puking on each other. As the credits slowly roll up I am surprised to see:

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Chris Weagel
I know I did not edit that program. But I also know that I’m going to have to devote the rest of my evening to figuring out how to update my IMDB profile.

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Third World America

02/21/11
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…what’s happening in Wisconsin isn’t about the state budget, despite Mr. Walker’s pretense that he’s just trying to be fiscally responsible. It is, instead, about power. What Mr. Walker and his backers are trying to do is to make Wisconsin — and eventually, America — less of a functioning democracy and more of a third-world-style oligarchy. And that’s why anyone who believes that we need some counterweight to the political power of big money should be on the demonstrators’ side.
SOURCE: Paul Krugman

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Wake Up

02/20/11
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Reich pointed out that the managers of Wall Street who caused the current unemployment crisis would have lost their jobs had it not been for their taxpayer-supported bailout two years ago. He noted that taxes on the earnings of some 13 hedge-fund managers could pay for 300,000 teachers.
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