I am watching this video clip of Keith Olbermann on Countdown embedded in a story about Bill Clinton refusing to join an Olbermann-touted health care event in behalf of free clinics in Arkansas because Olbermann has “politicized” the event. I clicked on the story in Huffington Post because it had the instantaneous whiff of crap […]
Category: progressive
We are beginning to glimpse a future when the human proponents of unbridled material consumption and behaviours associated with it, are called to the streets by their dealers in the name of “grassroots organizing”.
Our problem in America is that at least half of our fellow citizens have been free to pursue courses of study (which is really stretching the acceptable meanings for the word) that have led them to conclusions the factual support for which are utterly lacking, when it comes to matters affecting US national survival.
There is a criminal conspiracy between corporatists, authoritarians, social conservatives, anti-intellectuals and religious obscurantists that together are the cause of these pestilential practices that have brought our once-robust country to the brink of total dysfunction.
Reading about President Obama’s meeting with banking and finance CEOs from Wall Street, I couldn’t avoid the unbidden urge to schadenfreude, because, as Michael Moore has observed, “Nothing like it has ever happened”. I am so thrilled at the prospect and spectacle of it that I am capable of swallowing the momentary reflexive gorge that […]
A pardon of Osama would save America from blundering further down this Fool’s Path on which she has been placed by a Fool’s Administration, and liberating us from our throes of political and economic self-immolation.
There is no limit yet speculated exactly how many trillions of dollars will bleed out of the US economy before things settle on the completely new, nobody-knows-what-it-will-look-like-yet, but we’ll call it “normal”. I’ve always been poor at math, but there is a certain elegance about powers of ten that seduces me. Let’s play with big […]
I don’t mean to suggest you need to lose it in the sense opposite victory. It was never possible to win it that way anyway. It was Cheneyesque lunacy to push the line that victory was a realistic outcome to begin with, if we still live in the world of long-accepted definitions for items in […]
I am so full of negative things I want to say about you, George W. Bush, that I couldn’t possible get them all said if everyone I see for the next ten years stops by and invites me to do nothing else for the next hour or two, one after another. But I’m weary. I’m […]
It’s complete nonsense to imagine that crime doesn’t pay. It’s paying very well for those who have promoted the current system to the country as the most rational, best way of tackling the problems of anti-social behavior.
The Familographer 