When people talk about money in politics, they are usually referring to money expended on elections, but you [Peracles] show that that's just the tip of an iceberg of communications infrastructure the goes much deeper and wider below the surface. It's this infrastructure that creates the, how to put it? the group state of mind that drives many elections. Focusing on elections is focusing too late. By the time the election comes along, the battle is half over because the mental ground has long ago been prepared.
When is firing the top person the right thing to do?
When is it the effective thing to do?
When does it make matters even worse?
We often hear the call for someone's firing...
Because we all know that the buck stops at the top and someone must be held accountable for a bad situation. It can't be that no one is responsible, can it?
Because it's easy to make a scapegoat out of the shmoes at the bottom when we should be penalizing the person who's in charge and thus (presumably) has the power to make change.
I guess there really are no open and shut cases any longer, if there ever were.
Not when the "victim/perp" is black and the defendant is white.
This reminded of a story TPM was running--but now seems to have disappeared --about rules against advertising cigarettes not applying to the black community.
Maybe the story had problems with it, so it was withdrawn. But it also left my mouth hanging wide open.
I wonder how America would've turned out if "we" had always insisted on allowing into the county only those who all the well-respected experts had concluded, at any given point in time, were "the highest quality immigrants"?
You sow the seeds and fertilize the plant in the first generation and reap the fruit and flower in the second and third generations.
So I just got this piece of junk mail from AMEX touting their "high yield" savings account. They go further and ask me to compare it to the average of the rates offered by the top 50 banks.
AMEX: 0.85%
Top 50: 0.07%
Naturally, they exaggerate this difference in a bar chart that shows the AMEX rate towering over the Top 50 rate. And in truth, it is 12 times more. Which means that, for every $1 your earn with the Top 50, you'll earn $12 with AMEX.
