We’ll make an untrue attack ad accusing someone of supporting us. Orwell’s Doublespeak concept had nothing on today’s politics.
– Steve Stav
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”US press coverage has usually cast the Tea Party as an authentic expression of popular anger against Washington insiders. Anthony DiMaggio’s new book, Rise of the Tea Party, shatters such myths, demonstrating that the Tea Party has never been a genuine social movement or political outsider but rather an elite-dominated group that was closely . . . → Read More: The Tea Party Was Astro-Turfed – Democracy is All But Dead in the USA, By Anonymous January 14 – Arab Spring: Toppling of Tunisian Government marked the beginning of the Arab Spring. The Arab Spring otherwise known as the Arab Awakening, is a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in the Arab world against oppressive regimes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p9NJVgqgW8 March 11 – A 9.1-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the . . . → Read More: The Most Significant Events of 2011 (IMO), By Eduardo Gomez I am a single guy. I have a retirement income of approximately the median income of a family of four. That means that I enjoy “surplus capital”–income I don’t need after I pay the rent, put food on the table, etc. Yes, I spend some of that “surplus capital” on non-essentials–computer, camera, music, etc. . . . → Read More: Confessions of a Capitalist – How I Contribute to the Economic Problem, By Ken Peck Today is Dec 7. Growing up in the shadow of world war, you remembered and honored those days. Days like Armistice Day and Pearl Harbor. When done rightly, the honor fell upon those who risked and gave their lives to stop global tyranny. When done badly, the day could become a day of self-righteous . . . → Read More: “I Did Things, Terrible Things” – PTSD Can Remain Long After War is Won, By Gordon Jack Schultz Full story is here. I think she’s either mentally deranged, on drugs, or just the result of centuries of inbreeding. Having said that, it is hilarious that she’s been arrested. That’s England for you! A punch in the mouth, maybe, but arrested… Well there’s a reason why we separated from England. Some Americans have forgotten the reason, but . . . → Read More: Racist Woman on Tram is Ultimately Arrested, By Steve Stav Keith Olbermann’s a disciple of Edward R. Murrow, but I find his addition of wry humor to the latter’s delivery paradigm to be hit-and-miss, though he maintains an admirable batting average. In contrast to Keith’s surging, bellowing blasts of Mayor Bloomberg, Murrow laid into Joseph McCarthy with this remarkably calm determination that watchers at . . . → Read More: Keith Olbermann’s Murrow-esque Excoriation of Michael Bloomberg, By Steve Stav
Seattle 11/17/2011 – Photo By Holly Homan. On Thursday November 17 I left my place of work, a high school in North Seattle, and headed five miles south to the south end of the University of Washington. Today’s march was in honor of the second month anniversary of the Occupy Movement. As I approached . . . → Read More: Occupy Seattle Occupies the University Bridge, By Holly Homan The preceding, historically significant, footage shows Robert Kennedy in Indianapolis on April 4, 1968 speaking to a crowd on a campaign stop shortly after learning of the death of Martin Luther King. Kennedy’s trenchant, moving comments were given very soon after King’s assassination. “[Kennedy] first heard that King had been shot while . . . → Read More: Historical Video: Robert F. Kennedy Anounces Martin Luther King’s Death, Indianapolis 1968 From the publicist – “Amanda “Fucking” Palmer, who recently wrapped a west coast tour with husband Neil Gaiman, has been visiting Occupy sites around the country, making stops at Occupy sites in L.A., Oakland, Portland, Vancouver, and Seattle, in addition to her recent stops in Boston and Occupy Wall Street. “One of the most . . . → Read More: Amanda Palmer – World Turned Upside Down We now join our program, already in progress… —don’t know how it happened, but I was listening to Something Considered on NPR [audience hoots and hollers]—I know, I know—wait, wait, don’t interrupt me now. Hear me out. There was this mayor, the mayor of Saint Louis was on the radio, and he was talking . . . → Read More: Looking Backward on the Upcoming Republican Debate, By John Markuson My wife and I don’t talk politics much. First, we almost never agree. Second, she was blest with great verbal agility and I was not. Sometimes, when we do get into a discussion, and she is expressing her position, I am left thinking, “there is a flaw in her logic but I can’t quite . . . → Read More: My Response to Elizabeth Warren – Part One, By Bryan Storm The modern GOP is just a micro-version, the display model, of the American Dream’s pyramid scheme… Con people into it (often thru religion/family values, a sharp contrast to Europe’s workforce) and as those few who figure out they’ve been had, bow out or die, more are added to the pile, the bottom of the . . . → Read More: The Modern GOP is Just a Micro-Version, the Display Model, of the American Dream’s Pyramid Scheme, By Steve Stav |
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