Monthly Archives: November 2011

And, by extension, Mommy Marcus expands the Commandment to “honor your parents” to ALL authorities, except that parents become UNworthy of respect and honor if they do NOT teach mindless respect and honor for authority, no matter how crazy, how hateful, how fanatic and how willing to break the letter and spirit of the law that authority is. Continue reading →

You wanna talk about “redistribution of wealth”? The largest single (in real dollar terms, and not fake dollar terms) in American history was the freeing of the slaves, which were then counted as the single greatest capital asset in the land, far outstripping railroads and mines, manufacturing and shipping. But, as the Council of Conservative Citizens reported on their website, Lincoln was a homosexual, a communist and an “American Lenin.” Continue reading →

That’s the crux of Brownback Friday. Not that the governor of a great midwestern state, Kansas — which is also filled with wonderful, fabulous people who don’t deserve the opprobrium of being associated with “the means justify the ends” throwback Brownback — acted like a peevish child, and ordered the disciplining of a teenage girl he was spying on. Continue reading →

Let’s bring this all together: turning one’s back on facts can ONLY work when one’s audience (voting bloc) ALSO is happy to turn one’s back on facts. Continue reading →

Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber has just concluded a press conference* announcing that he was putting the execution of double-murderer Gary Haugen on hold, and a moratorium on all executions through the remainder of his term. Continue reading →

We will conduct and report on an audit of most active social media platforms used by OWS with the identification of trends in their engagement. This audit will offer analysis of those trends and identify effective reporting tools to develop actionable intelligence that could be rapidly acted on when a campaign becomes fully operational. Continue reading →

Alas, Ms. Antoinette, the “rabble” can only eat cake for so long. Continue reading →

This OUGHT to disturb us. This ought to be a time for sober reflection, but, instead, it is an excuse to unleash our quasi-military police forces on unarmed and non-violent protesters. In a coordinated attack over the weekend? I do not believe that President Obama, nor the United States Congress, nor the United States Supreme Court had anything to do with this national ad-hoc police action.
Which would suggest that it is dangerously a vigilante action, no matter how fancy the embossed letterhead of the vigilantes are. Continue reading →

Probably an in-joke. But here ’tis: Courage.

What they DON’T seem to get is the part about the Richie Riches believing that they can finally take over a dispirited and disunified Republican Party. Maybe, if I blog for another several years, they will. But they DO begin to “get” that radical libertarianism is, for most Americans, left and right, a “bridge too far” in its application. Continue reading →

on Veterans Day, I’d like to remember all the veterans of child abuse out there, the prey of the predators, who are struggling with deep, unseen wounds far deeper than my meager scratches, and to the solitude and silence that they live with and have lived with far longer than the three decades plus that I’ve lived with my secret. Continue reading →