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Meme Watch: “Arrogant Obama”
Example of an Internet Obama meme. Source: whitsblog.com Through the election season, memes will multiply like mushrooms. The objective of our new series “Meme Watch” is to examine those memes...
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Meme Watch: Washington’s Birthday, of Patriots and Polemics
Right date, wrong day. Today, my desk calendar says “Presidents’ Day”. As a former English major and part-time grammar Nazi (there, I got to Godwin’s Law in the second sentence), I spend a lot of time...
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Meme Watch: FNMA, FHLMC, and CRA Caused the Great Recession
What caused the economic meltdown of 2008? One meme holds that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, plus the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), “forced” banks to offer mortgages to people who had nether the...
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Meme Watch: The Republican War on Women
RNC Chair Reince Priebus: Big gavel, big mouth? Source: Esquire. It was an inept turn of phrase. During an interview on Al Hunt’s Political Capital on Bloomberg TV, Hunt asked Republican National...
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Meme Watch: The Half Who Don’t Pay Taxes
Last fall, we began to hear the drumbeat of “half of all Americans pay no taxes”. Specifically, it was that they pay no federal income taxes, though that detail was often lost in the rhetoric. The...
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Meme Watch: Agenda 21
The all-seeing eye is more malevolent than we thought. Still from the video “Agenda 21 for Dummies”. Belief in a shadowy conspiracy of powerful men and women who are trying to take over the world is a...
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Meme Watch: G*d’s Wrath
Pauly the Platypus has not posted an article on Logarchism in a long, long time. It hasn’t been a platypus’s age, but close. This week, Logarchism’s moderators sent Pauly down to Tampa to take in the...
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Faith, Hope and Charity
Faith, Hope and Charity When this election season started, I figured I’d be writing lots of blog posts handicapping the candidates and remarking on the ups and downs of a rough-and-tumble campaign. I...
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