People United Means Action
From the monthly archives:
Seems like a trending topic today. Hal Turner, right-wing blogger and internet radio host, was arrested for inciting violence against three judges by publishing their personal information on his blog and writing they “deserve to be killed.” Holy smokes. Some may have debated whether jackasses like Bill O’Reilly and Ralph Reed were partially responsible for [...]
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Mockery and Rant: I think they may be the mainstays of blogging (someone should start a blog with that title. It’s available), and as valuable as they are, both are so often and so predictably abused. Mockery is certainly a powerful and effective tool for those with less power and influence to use against those [...]
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As theamericanway said in comments. You might as well turn it off and get ALL your news from the internet. Seriously. Pretend it broke or something. Break it yourself so you won’t be tempted. Most of us have a TV addiction, that is, we turn it on out of HABIT, not because we expect to [...]
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Gorgeous picture by danceswithpumas from the SoCal Puma Meetup this weekend: Good reading on the Cap and Trade bill passed by the House last week HERE, by Matt Taibbi. THE GREAT AMERICAN BUBBLE MACHINE From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression – and [...]
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Got caught up reading from this compendium of the 100 Best American Speeches. The editors rank two of Barbara Jordan’s speeches in the top 20, and give Hillary Clinton’s “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights” 1995 speech in Beijing the number 33 slot. Roosevelt’s addresss to Congress on December 8, 1941 is remarkable for the ominousness [...]
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Yesterday’s shocking news of Michael Jackson’s death distracted me from mentioning Farrah Fawcett, the television and poster-girl legend, who also died yesterday. Fawcett’s death was not a surprise — she had been battling an aggressive recurrence of cancer — but it was still news, as she was one of the most well-known “sex objects” of [...]
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I’m 40 years old, which means I was in the eighth grade when Michael Jackson’s legendary album “Thriller“ was released in 1982. Being a city kid in an ethnic neighborhood that prided itself on the toughness of its natives, the mantra “disco sucks” was repeated dead seriously: actual street fights often occurred between kids from [...]
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This is not a post about Governor Sanford. This may be a post in which I mention my grudging respect for First Lady Jenny Sanford for not standing humiliated at her husband’s side during his Press Conference of Shame. I hope she is a model and inspiration for the next politician’s wife (and it shouldn’t [...]
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Obama’s Glorious Economic “Recovery” has stalled. It’s hard to blame Third Wave feminists for voting for obama. They are pretty dumb. Sen. Max Baucus ($5 million from the Medical Industrial Complex) is new gatekeeper for troubled Obamacare effort. There is something so wrong about a President on a Permanent Campaign. After tonight’s propagandafest for [...]
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Brand Obama is losing the message. The recoil among the lowly public has already registered with pollsters. But a collective resistance to his epic fraudulence, which likely started in the anti-war movement and soon spread to the LGBT community, now appears to have affected even his most blindly ardent supporters: the United States mainstream media. [...]
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