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Jun 11 2008
Ripples in a Pond – What One Person Can Do
This diary is a tribute to the power of the individual and is dedicated to two particular individuals who, as they say, require no introduction, kid oakland and Land of Enchantment. I would never have had the pleasure of meeting my dear friend Land of Enchantment at YKOS last year had it not been for the scholarship program started by Kid Oakland. This diary is in support of that program.
In this age of great and persistent evil it is easy to become overwhelmed by the never-ending cascade of horror and madness that the daily news has become. How does one stand against the tide of violent hatred, willful ignorance and blind running greed when its onrush is so powerful, its influence so ubiquitous, its effects so devastating? What in the world can one person do?
Jun 11 2008
Ripples in a Pond – What One Person Can Do
This diary is a tribute to the power of the individual and is dedicated to two particular individuals who, as they say, require no introduction, Kid Oakland and Land of Enchantment. I would never have had the pleasure of meeting my dear friend Land of Enchantment at YKOS last year had it not been for the scholarship program started by Kid Oakland. This diary is in support of that program.
In this age of great and persistent evil it is easy to become overwhelmed by the never-ending cascade of horror and madness that the daily news has become. How does one stand against the tide of violent hatred, willful ignorance and blind running greed when its onrush is so powerful, its influence so ubiquitous, its effects so devastating? What in the world can one person do?
Jun 10 2008
BREAKING ON C-SPAN: Kucinich introducing IMPEACHMENT!
UPDATE: C-SPAN Live Stream
UPDATE 2: It’s over and the House adjourned for the night – tune in at 9 AM (ET) tomorrow for a one hour impeach debate.
(On The Bus)
Doing it NOW!
Check it out…
Go Dennis!
Jun 05 2008
May They All Choke on Their Own Evil
A hearty and sincere congratulations to Barack Obama and all of his supporters. The only other thing I have to say about that is to ask you to please reach out to our brothers and sisters in the HRC camp, many of whom have been abused in this process. We are all Democrats, we are all progressives, and we all have a lot of work to do in fixing our sadly and badly broken country.
May 31 2008
Liars on the Radio, Liars on TV, Liars Driving Cadillacs to Washington DC
With apologies to Gilbert Shelton who wrote The Day I Set My Chickens Free.
Funny how when anybody speaks the unvarnished truth they sound like a left wing blogger. Go figure.
May 27 2008
The Day After Memorial Day
With all due respect to those who serve in the armed forces, we owe it to them to ask hard questions about the sacrifices demanded of them and their families.
It’s fine and good and perfectly appropriate for us to honor our dead, but if we allow ourselves to be whipped into a patriotic frenzy every time some yahoo waves a flag it can serve to legitimize the military enterprise – and that is the point I wish to make. The military enterprise is not legitimate.
May 20 2008
Where is the Love?
The one true and lasting gift that the hippies tried to give the world is precisely that which has been offered by every wise or holy man or woman to ever walk the earth – the gift of love. Love as a conscious choice, love as an ethic, love as a way of life, love as the antidote to fear, hatred and violence – love as a way to walk lightly on the earth.
May 16 2008
If We Were Wise and Brave
If we were wise and brave we would have taken down this President a long time ago.
Is an earnest desire for peace a foolish delusion? George Bush thinks so…and who could know more about foolish delusions?
Apr 30 2008
Two Years at DailyKos (warning – heavy graphics)
What follows is a bit of a recap of my two years here…er, there. I’m going to drop in some of my favorite illustrations and collages from the past 2 years and they won’t necessarily relate to the text. I beg your indulgence.
On April 30, 2006 I posted my first diary at DailyKos, The Curse of Big Money and The Pledge. (Wasn’t a big hit.)
Apr 27 2008
Darkness Falls
I’ve been trying to write about torture, and I’m finding it slow, painful going. I’ll begin one thought only to be distracted by wave after wave of random related thoughts crashing on the heels of the unfinished original, leaving me twitching in psychic anguish, paralyzed and at a complete loss for words. My God, how did we let it happen? And why in hell haven’t we stopped it? Why have we not arrested the torturers? Why have we not impeached this sorry excuse for a President?
“History will not judge this kindly,” to quote that rat bastard, John Ashcroft.
That of course presupposes that there will be a future from which to look back on this disgraceful period, and that this is just a phase, not simply the end.
Apr 26 2008
The Saints Are Coming
In a thread yesterday over at the GOS, somebody blamed 60s era hippies for the mess we’re in today (again). Nothing could be further from the truth in my opinion. We did not win the culture wars in the 60s, we lost. It wasn’t us that ended up running things, it was the other side, the Nixonites. The neocons are direct descendants of said rightwingers (they did NOT descend from the hippies). There was no point where the evil rightwing bastards turned things over to the hippies either. That hippies are somehow responsible for the trashing of America is a rightwing-inspired urban myth. They do that a lot, it takes the heat off of them.
If the hippies had won that struggle back in the 60s we’d live in a more humane world today.
