More Republicans speaking out, if late. Heard financier John Bogle on NPR this morning, talking about the inherent bias in late capitalism towards the haves. (“My disenchantment came when the Republican Party did something I couldn’t believe it would do, which was take George H.W. Bush and then, in 2000, take his son. The first one boggled my mind. The second one triple-boggled me…”) If I had been interviewing Bogle, I would have liked his opinion on which interests the WSJ was protecting by slamming his book. Obvious and otherwise; the systems AND the news-gathering organizations who depend on it…
WHAT CAN I DO?
Finally gave a listen to Antony and the Johnsons this afternoon, almost six weeks after hearing he’d won the UK Mercury prize. This is what the Brits embrace? Baffling. This could be one of the more striking contemporary examples of mannered peculiarity posing as… authenticity? Neuroticism? Outsider-ness? Discomfort in one’s own skin-ness?
rock culture approximately
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