"As the great political scientist E. E. Schattschneider wrote in 1960, “The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.” Schattschneider, it turned out, did not know the half of it. To most observers, the 1960s seemed the height of American liberalism, and the decade’s policy developments — upgrading the basic New Deal package of social protection and labor rights to include extensive protection of civil rights and civil liberties and additional benefits such as limited health insurance — seemed to bear out this view. But to business elites, the 1960s marked the nadir of their influence in American society, and they did not react passively. The era saw the stirrings of a conservative counterrevolution marked by ideological, political, and organizational developments, and particularly by the political awakening of business."
— Robert Liberman in Why the Rich Are Getting Richer
This is strange.
My favorites include,
“…power of the human spirit” = someone goes from poor to rich/sports team wins a thing
“Smart and snappy” = people talk in ways that no normal human beings would ever talk
from Strange Maps
This is quite fun. Not terribly accurate, but must more pleasing to the eye than a more detailed French wine map .
My favorite is Chinon (on the green Loire line!) — Rabelais agrees, Beauvez toujours, vous ne mourrez jamais .
"And when they ask me who is the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I’m going to say, you know, I don’t know. Do you know? And then I’m going to say how’s that going to create one job?"
— Hermain Cain via The Atlantic
