From Taibbi in “A Christmas Message From America’s Rich” in response to the whining billionaire’s club: Most of us 99-percenters couldn’t even let our dogs leave a dump on the sidewalk without feeling ashamed before…
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News Flash: VP Biden’s Brother Frank Has an IRS Problem
photo by D’Arcy Norman (UPDATE: In an interview with Broward/Palm Beach New Times’ Lisa Rab, Frank Biden responded to the Doug Martin article below concerning Biden’s tax debts. Rab writes the following: Meanwhile, the vice president’s brother…
Remaking Public Schools Instead of Abandoning Them
For the most part, when our community online chat boards discuss “issues” regarding our local school system they begin with a specific issue, like increased security surveillance or lengthening the school day, but quickly become…
Clare-ity on Enclosure
From “The Mores,” by John Clare These paths are stopt–the rude philistines thrall Is laid upon that and destroyed them all Each little tyrant with his little sign Shows where man claims earth glows no…
Wake Up, Anaesthetized and Distracted Morons: Drones Don’t Mirandize
The Banality of the Drone Use in the Police State Vasoconstrictionyou able to penetrate (enter) your partner? buy cialis. Narcoticslong-standing partner vardenafil. OBESITAâ: The prospective study of the MMAS (9) showed that a stoneâthe present…
Logic is what he valued, and not metaphor…
Speaking out of Charles Simic’s mouth. Ask me in a hundred years. Aided by Augustine of Hippo (Sources below) The natural order, which would have peace amongst men, requires that the decision and power to…
By Day One Cannot See Any Stars
Guy Davenport: Collage is retrospective in content, modern in its design. Kept up, it will recapitulate and summarize the history of its own being. Herakleitos: The untrained mind shivers with excitement at everything it hears….
Those Who Push These Plans…In the Name of Security
Conference on Internet Freedom Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Fokker Terminal The Hague, Netherlands December 8, 2011 Excerpts: After all, the right to express one’s views, practice one’s faith, peacefully assemble with others…
Of Thee I Sing!
In a post from October, The Shackles of Citizenry: Guilty In Any Land, I related this story from my days of employment with a DC-based publisher: I think I’ve told the following story to several of…
The Founding Document of American Oligarchy
The Mayflower Compact In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and…