We have seen that our nation is more deeply divided than we thought. But I still believe in America and I always will. And if you do, then we must accept this result and then look to the future. Donald Trump is going to be our president. We owe him an open mind and the …
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Nov 16 2016
No Kidding
U.S. forces may have committed war crimes, says International Criminal Court Wednesday, Nov 16, 2016 1:00 PM UTC by Ben Norton, Salon The International Criminal Court in The Hague has said U.S. forces may have committed war crimes in several countries. The prosecutor’s office said in a report released on Monday that there is a …
Nov 15 2016
Y’all Might Be An Anti-Semite If…
You can’t possibly be an anti-Semite because you went to Harvard Business School, and the London School of Economics, and were a Managing Partner of Goldman Sachs. Those places are just lousy with Jews and we all know about Jews and money, amiright? Your biggest problem with your kid’s school is that it’s a converted …
Nov 14 2016
“The evil that men do lives after them”
Act 3, Scene 2 I’m sure there are those who say (though not to my face) that I’m being a tad hyperbolic when I chart the decline of Keynesian Economics and what we Post-Modernly think of as Liberalism (it’s more properly termed Social Democracy) to the dim dark mists of the 60s when, after all, …
Nov 12 2016
Lessons From Atrios
TMC always says to me- blame Atrios. Partly it’s to remind me that she was a very popular blogger long before I started peddling my own particular brand of obnoxiousness (and still is, or at least waaay more popular than I am because she’s charming and sociable and diplomatic and I’m a curmugeonly grouch even …
Nov 11 2016
A Little Light Viewing
(continued) I, on the other hand, am still in the slough of depression, right off of High Anxiety Street. Fortunately I see my Therapist next week and she’ll tell me the same thing she always does- “Do you feel like you need medication?” Not any more, two and a half ounces in Massachusetts! Some people …
Nov 11 2016
Today’s Wisdom from Robert Reich and Michael Moore
Gee it’s like these guys got inspired or something. I wonder why? Why We Need a New Democratic Party by Robert Reich Thursday, November 10, 2016 As a first step, I believe it necessary for the members and leadership of the Democratic National Committee to step down and be replaced by people who are determined …
Nov 10 2016
Not So Much
We have seen that our nation is more deeply divided than we thought. But I still believe in America and I always will. And if you do, then we must accept this result and then look to the future. Donald Trump is going to be our president. We owe him an open mind and the …
Nov 10 2016
Future Directions
This is a title I use mostly for Meta musings about changes in the presentation and content of our site (not that I don’t make changes without announcement or have them forced on me by circumstances beyond my control). After consultation with TMC we’ve agreed that the best thing we can do right now is …
Nov 09 2016
Brexit
Well, that was certainly something, wasn’t it. What we have just witnessed is the final failure of Neoliberalism. There is no faith left anymore in our institutions, and why should there be? They lie constantly because they think we are too stupid to see the truth and they are too vain to admit their incompetence. …
Nov 08 2016
Politique
As you might imagine a busy day ahead with little opportunity to write. Election night coverage will start around 9 pm and we’ll try to concentrate as much down ballot as we do on the top. I never tell people who to vote for, or even to vote. If you read us with regularity you …
Nov 08 2016
Vile Calumnies
Or in common parlance- lies. You remember, waaay back in the dim dark mists of history (like 2 months ago), Labour Leader Jeremy Corbin faced a Quisling rebellion by the Tory-lite, Neoliberal, Blairite Labour Party Members of Parliament (the Parliamentary Labour Party or PLP). Now we know as a matter of fact that the real …