(Still-)DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz's vision for the Democratic Party
Yeah, that’s right, an empty chair. Clint Eastwood had Democratic National Committee Chair (ahem) Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s model for the presidential campaign down pat, only he was four years early....
View ArticleArticle in "The Onion"-to-reality speed now only 2 weeks
GOP Warns Refugees Likely To Be Driven To Terrorism By Way America Would Treat ThemThe Onion, November 17, 2015CHARLESTON, SC—Declaring that opening the nation’s doors to displaced Syrians posed a...
View ArticleR's debate in prime time; D's debate in pre-Xmas Sat. PM doldrums. Guess when...
That’s right, it’s on the Sunday of a three-day weekend. Like the last two scheduled times, it’s when people are going to be out having fun and enjoying themselves, when people make plans to do active...
View ArticleAFP: US military leadership floats idea of killing more civilians
Under pressure from critics who say the campaign is moving too slowly, the Pentagon has indicated it would consider a wider array of targets even if these might cause civilian deaths, provided these...
View ArticleThe Three Laws of Rubiotics
A Rubiot may not injure a corporation or, through inaction, allow a corporation to come to har… Actually, if a Rubiot is in doubt, maybe inaction is the way to go. A Rubiot must obey the orders given...
View ArticleWhen did we stop learning?
After the world saw how the World War I victors’ wholly punitive approach to the losers backfired in the worst possible ways, we learned to approach postwar justice and recovery in an intelligent and...
View ArticleDamn it, New York, don't you realize what an opportunity you have here?
Think of it: the chance to vote for a candidate who stands for essentially everything an American liberal—a Democrat—avers to stand for. The chance to take power back from corporate fat cats who...
View ArticleTrolling Mike Pence With Esoteric Erudition #MikePenceSigns
1. Know your recent baseball meme history.Hunter Pence and Heckling in the Internet Age, by Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, Aug. 8, 2014And so Mets fans had to dig pretty deep to find anything bad to say...
View ArticleAn encouraging read on the economic left turning pro
I’ve been impressed with articles and publicity coming out of the Roosevelt Institute for some time. If you’re looking for a group of leftists who are deadly serious about Elizabeth Warren’s “personnel...
View ArticleCA Prop. 54 on a 72-hour waiting period for legislative bills is a corporate...
California Proposition 54 is nominally about mandating a 3-day waiting period between the time when legislators change a bill and when they vote on it, and it’s about requiring public online posting of...
View ArticleAlways pillage before you burn
Perhaps, given global warming and the wars in the Middle East, the most consequential election in history was 2000, though now America is doubling down on pillaging and burning the planet.This is the...
View ArticleScrew off, New York Times
The returns Tuesday also amounted to a historic rebuke of the Democratic Party from the white blue-collar voters who had formed the party base from the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt to Mr....
View ArticleRight now, Obama and Clinton are enabling the rise of fascism
Yesterday, Clinton gave her concession speech, and Obama gave his statement on the election result. With what they did not say, they are enabling a fascist.First, what they did say:[Clinton] We owe him...
View ArticleRead "This is what we do next," by Jon Schwarz
Some of you will know Jon Schwarz from his earlier writings at an “old” blog called A Tiny Revolution. What he writes now is as important as ever.DONALD TRUMP WILL BE PRESIDENT. THIS IS WHAT WE DO...
View ArticleFaithful Electors: No Time to Waste to Save the Republic [ACTION]
The Electoral College Can at Last Fulfill the Best Reason for Its Existence The Electoral College casts its votes in each of the 50 states on December 19th. Each state prescribes how its Electors are...
View ArticleBernie Sanders, identity politics, economic populism, and the Democratic Party
This article promulgates a lie:Sanders Urges Supporters: Ditch Identity Politics And Embrace The Working Class By MATT SHUHAM, Talking Points Memo, November 21, 2016What Bernie Sanders actually said...
View ArticleThe new McCarthyism: Are you now trying or have you ever tried to stop global...
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team has circulated an unusual 74-point questionnaire at the Department of Energy that requests the names of all employees and contractors who have attended...
View ArticleOn the eve of the actual election for president, a message to electors and...
No one can deny that the members of the Electoral College have the power to vote however they so choose. Though some states may have (unconstitutional) penalties for electors who change their votes,...
View Article"Hypernormalization" and the dangers of anti-ideological politics
I recently watched Adam Curtis’s fall 2016 BBC opinion documentary, Hypernormalization. It’s available in its entirety online. Hypernormalization is a well-composed exposition upon the past four...
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