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 the masses standing in the shadow of the …
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http://youtu.be/_E3-_z5YP0M 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 leaving Muncie, …
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 fascinating …
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 about …
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 pile. …
Addicting Info has an interesting piece of writing about the Republican party and how it might be perceived in the wake of the debt ceiling debate by Driscoll titled, “Republicans: A Profile Of The Classic Abuser.” My response, below, is not what you might expect. But first, here’s a taste of the article: As a …
Here we go again. Cue: The left commentariet decrying the sell-out Democratic President and Congress for negotiating and supporting legislation that no good progressive would get near. Cue: The right commentariet bewails the Republican Congressional leadership for giving in to Pres Obama, the Keyser Soze of American politics. It is probably of little value to …
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First off, I think this issue of the debt ceiling has revealed again and maybe more starkly than others a severely bad habit of the press to need to understand their role as non-partisan as always necessitating their taking the view that both sides of the debate are equally valid or equally a cause of …
Full story is here.
Now that Michele Bachmann has brought John Wayne back into socio-political pop memory, it would be good to take a look at Joan Didion’s classic essay about this American patriot and actor, which was reprinted some time ago in the Guardian.
Another fine essay from Steve Stav.
This image — seen all over China on all kinds of souvenirs — is called “The Obamao” by locals. Seems the President and the Chairman indeed have at least one thing in common… – Colette Moran . .
“FEELING the need for an example of government policy run amok? Look no further than the box of cornflakes on your kitchen shelf. In its myriad corn-related interventions, Washington has managed simultaneously to help drive up food prices and add tens of billions of dollars to the deficit, while arguably increasing energy use and harming …
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From Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government Blog: “Without Palin in the race a massive segment of the GOP base—Tea Party patriots and other independent conservatives—will find themselves once again with the prospect of choosing from a manipulated field of Next-In-Line GOP establishment liberals.” – Tammy Bruce Complete essay is here.
It was forty years ago today, Daniel Ellsberg brought the Prez to play, They’d been going onward to raise a pile, And they’re guaranteed to raise a smile, So may I introduce to you, The act you’ve known for all these years, Ellberg’s papers helped the Prez go down. Yes, forty years ago today (June …
This Youtube currently making the rounds in the blogosphere juxtaposes quotes from self-professed Christian elected officials about their love of Ayn Rand and quotes from Rand herself during an interview with Mike Wallace. That the religious right would embrace not just a self-avowed atheist, but one whose atheism was rooted in the notion that religion …
In his column, Paul Krugman discusses a mistake made last year which will lengthen the recession.