An Ode to Speakers Corner (mocking the regulation of their public speakers’ forum), Ode to Romancing Singapore (mocking the government’s natalist campaign), and this cartoon mocking the government’s use of security cameras:
I’ve seen lots of political satire on professors’ doors in American colleges. But can you imagine this sort of thing at a training center for American bureaucrats?
Nov 29 2008
Did I fail to foresee the financial crisis? Absolutely. Brad DeLong gives some reasons that also go for me. I was "expecting," in the sense of anticipating that it was they were both likely enough and serious enough that public policymakers should be paying significant attention to guarding the risks that it would c...
Nov 29 2008
I don't know Gary Becker's stand on happiness research, but he clearly thinks that his fellow economists overlook the importance of unhappiness:Economists have underplayed the cost to individuals of mild to severe recessions in part because they have neglected the cost of the "fear" generated by bad economic times. In ...
Nov 29 2008
An Ode to Speakers Corner (mocking the regulation of their public speakers' forum), Ode to Romancing Singapore (mocking the government's natalist campaign), and this cartoon mocking the government's use of security cameras:I've seen lots of political satire on professors' doors in American colleges. But can you i...
READER COMMENTS
Bob Knaus
Nov 29 2008 at 11:56am
When I was a contractor at the Turkey Point Nuclear Plant Training Center years ago, a popular post on the employee lunchroom bulletin boards was the old Far Side cartoon of the chubby schoolboy pushing as hard as he could to get in the schoolhouse door marked “Out”.
Of course, the schoolhouse sign had been modified to say “PTN Training” and the boy’s notebook was labeled “Nuclear Plant Operator”.
Kurbla
Nov 29 2008 at 4:53pm
This cartoon doesn’t mock the government’s use of security cameras. It mocks excessive use of any (public or private) security cameras – see “Your neighborhood DVD pirate now have movies of you.”
Alex J.
Nov 30 2008 at 8:38am
Did they still have “Singapore: A Fine City” T-shirts for sale?
Dr. T
Dec 1 2008 at 9:00pm
“But can you imagine this sort of thing at a training center for American bureaucrats?”
Yes, for the 30 seconds before a manager spots it.
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