Month: September 2011

Crowdsourcing a New Chicagoboyz Header Image

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Commenters and regular contributors here have complained that the thumbnail photos of famous Chicago boys that appeared in our blog header at https://chicagoboyz.net have gone missing. It’s true; I removed them. Some of the images are copyrighted and I decided that their inclusion in our header probably didn’t quality as fair use, so down they went.

I liked the photo header and maybe one day I will recreate it using public-domain or other alternatives to copyrighted photos. In the meantime I would be interested in suggestions for alternative header designs that might be appropriate for this blog. The only stipulations are that if you submit a design it must be a design that you created, and that by submitting a design or concept you are giving us irrevocable permission to use it in our header image.

If you own the copyright to any photos of famous Chicago boys and would be willing to let us use your photos in our header that would be good too.

Finally, if you can point us to public-domain photos of Friedman, Hayek et al that would help a great deal.

Thanks.

UPDATE: Please email any graphic designs to jonathan at chicagoboyz dot net.

He Really Doesn’t Like Us Very Much

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In my last post, I suggested that the phrase decline by design could be used in the upcoming presidential campaign to describe Obama’s economic policies. Another useful phrase for repeated emphasis could be:

He Really Doesn’t Like Us Very Much

…backed up by clips/quotes of Jeremiah Wright’s “God damn America” line, Obama’s crack about “bitter clingers,” Obama’s repeated assertions of his own superior brilliance, etc etc.

I also posted this and the previous post at Richochet (members section–not publicly available unless it gets promoted to the main page) and someone suggested an alternate phrasing might be he’s just not that into us.

Decline by Design

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Peter Morici, a professor of International Business at the University of Maryland, used the phrase decline by design to describe the economic policies that are now crippling this country. (Googling, I see that the phrase has also been independently used by a few others.) It seems to me that “decline by design” could be used as a centerpiece for a very effective advertising campaign by whoever the Republican nominee turns out to be, as in stop Obama’s decline by design.

Numerous facts and soundbites could be used to clearly make the point about just how designed (or at least predictable to anyone with any sense) the current economic situation actually is…Obama’s comment about how electricity prices would “necessarily skyrocket” under his energy plan, the stated desire of his Energy secretary to raise our gasoline prices to “European levels” and many, many more.

This will be a very critical campaign in our country’s history, and we need to produce and heavily promote a series of hard-hitting and clearly substantiated memes that will ensure the end of the Obama era. I think this could be one of them.