Abraham Lincoln says George Will is a disgrace
I know this is late in the news cycle, but in case no one else mentioned it, George Will bloviated about the minimum wage on the WaPo op-ed page today, saying,But the minimum wage should be the same...
View ArticleDisney Compare and Contrast: Grey's Anatomy v. Spocko
I just saw this article up over at the NYTimes regarding Grey's Anatomy star Isaiah Washington's repeated use of an "anti-gay slur." Here's the quote that really caught my eye:The executive, who spoke...
View ArticleAcademic Freedom Officially Dead - Finkelstein denied tenure [UPDATED, AGAIN,...
Norman Finkelstein, political scientist at DePaul and child of holocaust survivors, has been denied tenure after Alan Dershowitz's scorched-truth campaign against him. As many, if not most, at DKos...
View ArticleCOM ignore Edwards national surge-Greenwald (NEW UPDATE)
Glenn Greenwald has a new post up this morning telling us what the Corporate Owned Media (COM) won't: John Edwards experienced a national surge that the other Democratic candidates didn't until the...
View ArticleToddler tells Bush goodbye - very funny video
Momlogic has a simply brilliant video of a three year-old telling Bush goodbye.
View ArticleChomsky spanks Obama but good (UPDATE)
Today, brotherNoamChomsky follows up his magisterial historical-political analysis of the recent US-backed Israeli incursion into Gaza, "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009 with today's Obama on...
View ArticleGlobal Jubilee then Economic Democracy - a modest proposal
The global economic disaster, both its causes and cures, has prompted much head-scratching amongst the kept intelligencia, but also between those of us fellow travelers working in the progressive...
View ArticleGlobal Jubilee then Economic Democracy - a modest proposal
The global economic disaster, both its causes and cures, has prompted much head-scratching amongst the kept intelligencia, but also between those of us fellow travelers working in the progressive...
View ArticleJustice, Freedom and The Lord’s Prayer
Sometimes I marvel at the sheer power of common, ordinary human language. It can pack an enormous amount of meaning, emotion and information into relatively few words. Newton’s three laws of motion,...
View ArticleWhy, surprisingly, I'm proud to be a union teacher
I'm in my first year teaching in Central Texas but probably my 20+ year in public education. From 2000-2008 I was a vice-president representing Educational Support Professionals (ESPs) in Austin,...
View ArticleNFL player in a murder-suicide this morning
Javon Belcher, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker, is reported to have shot his girlfriend to death and then drove to the Chiefs' practice facility, where he shot himself in front of two coaches. News...
View ArticleA Few Pro-Choice Arguments You May Not Have Heard
Howdy y'all! From the great city of Austin in the not-so-great state of Texas, I send you greetings.In light of recent events, including most recently the slut-shaming of a 14 year-old girl, I thought...
View ArticleNot even Chomsky connects the dots: Economic Democracy and "Right-to-Work" laws
I've been following the debate around so-called "right-to-work" laws being pushed through traditionally strong-union states like Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan. It's been a pretty sad affair for our...
View ArticleEvery religion and value system on earth has failed, except one
I hope that got y'all's attention. This is an arguably true statement. One has only to look around at the U.S. and the world to see this. Charleston for example, sadly enough. And, arguably, them's...
View ArticleObama's "Neville Chamberlain" moment of weakness and appeasement
For those of you still playing politics as if there were any rules left in the game, get woke folk. The US establishment is morally, ethically, and civilly bankrupt, utterly illegitimate, and by its...
View Article"Politics as a Vocation": The Revelation of Max Weber
This a short diary to introduce a link to a very long, and inexpressibly worthwhile, text that is both fitting and proper for our time. Max Weber’s “Politics as a Vocation” builds slowly, even...
View Article"Lookism": Another self-inflicted head wound by the left lol
Oh holy honking horseshit hahahaha! A popular, longtime diarist posted some complete claptrap, and I’m here to dismantle it and refute it, on principled and ethical grounds. Primarily, the diary is...
View ArticleChomsky spanks Obama but good (UPDATE)
Today, brotherNoamChomsky follows up his magisterial historical-political analysis of the recent US-backed Israeli incursion into Gaza, "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009 with today's Obama on...
View ArticleGlobal Jubilee then Economic Democracy - a modest proposal
The global economic disaster, both its causes and cures, has prompted much head-scratching amongst the kept intelligencia, but also between those of us fellow travelers working in the progressive...
View ArticleGlobal Jubilee then Economic Democracy - a modest proposal
The global economic disaster, both its causes and cures, has prompted much head-scratching amongst the kept intelligencia, but also between those of us fellow travelers working in the progressive...
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