I’m obviously confused. You see to me ‘Liberal’ means socially progressive and non-discriminatory, someone who’s in favor of economic equality and the Labor movement, someone who believes in democracy and accountability to the electorate, a person who values courage and accuracy in reporting. In the Orwellian Newspeak of the current climate ‘Liberal’ seems to mean …
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Jun 24 2016
Confucianism
Among the lesser known factoids of history is that there was actually a guy named Confucius and he wasn’t trapped inside a Fortune Cookie factory. Indeed in China (you know, only the single most stable, creative, and longest lasting civilization in history but then again why would you because the United States is so exceptional …
Jun 24 2016
Pour decourager les autres
Well, discouraging the others is what it’s all about, isn’t it? The reaction from the Neolibs in Brussels and specifically the Germans is so far a pretty straight up prostate check which is all well and good since that’s what they got from Britain but is fundamentally misguided because the European Union needs Britain a …
Jun 24 2016
Ramming Speed
We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons, but that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part! Brexit: The Crisis Begins by …
Jun 24 2016
St. Crispin’s Day
If we are mark’d to die, we are enow to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honour. God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; it yearns …
Jun 23 2016
O Brexit Tree, O Brexit Tree
I come to you tonight with mixed emotions and a confused forecast. Brexit is really a much bigger deal than you get even from careful reading of non-United States english language newspapers, let alone the airheaded gasbags on cable TV. I’ve been waiting all day for early indicators of the results. It’s difficult to predict …
Jun 23 2016
Another Example That We Are Living In The End Times
So you know about deep fried butter right? Provided you happen to have a fry-o-lator it’s not really a complicated recipe. Take a stick of butter and put it on a skewer of some sort, freeze it so it’s rock hard. When you’re ready to eat, dip it in batter and dunk it in your …
Jun 22 2016
Not Michael Moore’s House
Really. You see, this isn’t even Flint and he didn’t deliver newspapers to my Grandma who didn’t think he was a jerk probably because he actually walked up to the front porch and placed them a step from the mail box instead of pitching it halfway down the front sidewalk from his bike as he …
Jun 20 2016
It’s Bigger On The Inside
C’mon, just say it. Everybody does. You think it’ll last forever: people and cars and concrete. But it won’t. One day it’s all gone. Even the sky. My planet’s gone. It’s dead. It burned, like the Earth. It’s just rocks and dust. Before its time. What happened? There was a war, and we lost. A …
Jun 17 2016
Give Me Liberty
This piece by Glenn Greenwald (in the Washington Post! Yay Glenn!) explores a theme I have consistently articulated- United States citizens are, collectively, cowards. We routinely accept 32,675 traffic deaths annually (2014 report from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, for whom I occasionally work, the most recent complete report available) and panic over the …
Jun 17 2016
The Brazilian Tea Party
When can we call it a coup? As Corruption Engulfs Brazil’s “Interim” President, Mask Has Fallen Off Protest Movement by Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept June 16 2016, 12:49 p.m. Momentum for the impeachment of Brazil’s democratically elected president, Dilma Rousseff, was initially driven by large, flamboyant street protests of citizens demanding her removal. Although Brazil’s …
Jun 16 2016
Brexit
I’ve remained mostly silent about the prospects of Brexit. On the one hand Remain is being supported by David Cameron, a truly horrible human, and George Osborne, even worse. It’s also being supported by all the Banksters, Bureaucrats, and Corporatists that make up the Neolib consensus both on the Continent and in Britain who predict …