Love is a Fire

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”

-- Joan Crawford

Love is a Fire

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”

-- Joan Crawford

Romney Should Pay Zero Taxes?

Reading a "Forbes" magzine article, I am reminded of how hard the ideological lines are drawn, as our financier-devoted right-wingers continue to maintain what we like to call the Ayn Rand science-fiction fantasy:

if jobs are truly your goal (they always are among politicians and columnists), your desired tax rate on investment (Romney’s primary source of income) should be zero.

[...]

rather than complaining that he “only” paid millions to the capital destroying federal government at a rate of 14%, we should be horrified that the job-worshipping political class and commentariat thinks his rate too low. If they love innovation and jobs, they must once again love investment, in which case Romney’s tax rate is way too high. It should be zero.

Yeah, Romney and his ilk should not have to pay any taxes. We are blessed enough that they deign to walk on the same earth as we do. It can make one think that they will only understand the guillotine. Oh god, let the current polling trend hold and let Romney and the Republicans get thrashed in November, pretty please! I'm mainly afraid that the Republicans are locking down the fix, with their voter-suppression efforts along with Florida-style 2000 tactics.

Romney Should Pay Zero Taxes?

Reading a "Forbes" magzine article, I am reminded of how hard the ideological lines are drawn, as our financier-devoted right-wingers continue to maintain what we like to call the Ayn Rand science-fiction fantasy:

if jobs are truly your goal (they always are among politicians and columnists), your desired tax rate on investment (Romney’s primary source of income) should be zero.

[...]

rather than complaining that he “only” paid millions to the capital destroying federal government at a rate of 14%, we should be horrified that the job-worshipping political class and commentariat thinks his rate too low. If they love innovation and jobs, they must once again love investment, in which case Romney’s tax rate is way too high. It should be zero.

Yeah, Romney and his ilk should not have to pay any taxes. We are blessed enough that they deign to walk on the same earth as we do. It can make one think that they will only understand the guillotine. Oh god, let the current polling trend hold and let Romney and the Republicans get thrashed in November, pretty please! I'm mainly afraid that the Republicans are locking down the fix, with their voter-suppression efforts along with Florida-style 2000 tactics.

On Orwell Choosing to Use an Animal Fable

It was on his return from Spain to Wallington in 1937, six years before he actually wrote his allegory of the decline of the Bolshevist revolution, that Orwell had first had a glimpse of the “animal fable” method he would eventually use: “One day … I saw a little boy, perhaps ten years old, driving a huge carthorse along a narrow path, whipping it whenever it tried to turn. It struck me that if only such animals became aware of their strength, we should have no power over them, and that men exploit animals in much the same way as the rich exploit the proletariat.

-- Averil Gardner, “George Orwell”

Funny, I think Dostoevsky also had a similar eye-opening experience upon witnessing a horse being abused, and one wonders if that literary precedent may have had some influence on Orwell. It is a good anecdote nonetheless.

On Orwell Choosing to Use an Animal Fable

It was on his return from Spain to Wallington in 1937, six years before he actually wrote his allegory of the decline of the Bolshevist revolution, that Orwell had first had a glimpse of the “animal fable” method he would eventually use: “One day … I saw a little boy, perhaps ten years old, driving a huge carthorse along a narrow path, whipping it whenever it tried to turn. It struck me that if only such animals became aware of their strength, we should have no power over them, and that men exploit animals in much the same way as the rich exploit the proletariat.

-- Averil Gardner, “George Orwell”

Funny, I think Dostoevsky also had a similar eye-opening experience upon witnessing a horse being abused, and one wonders if that literary precedent may have had some influence on Orwell. It is a good anecdote nonetheless.

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