Okay, because schools, I’ve been told, suck, and because Americans, it’s been said, are stupid, and because citizens, it seems, are unaware of the history that has brought us to this point, I will offer a brief lesson. You can do it yourself if you just go to the Wikipedia right now (I’m told you [...]
Tag Archives: democracy
Drowning in Bathtubs: (Dis)Trusting Public Officials
Before we start, recall that Grover Norquist (best friends with guys like felon Jack Abramoff and moral majority manipulator Ralph Reed, reprehensible thugs of the Machiavellian political underclass), chieftain of corrupt practices masquerading as “tax policy” positions and anti-tax pledges is a man of considerable influence in government and has been for decades. (Who are [...]
Occupy Wall Street: A Sit-in Defining Being Against the Doing
Two bits, more than a shave and haircut, on the “unrest” that appears to be morphing nicely into actual thought. Both of these from the web magazine The New Significance: “A web magazine exploring revolutionary forces for change & autonomy in the 21st Century…” The first comes from David Harvey on the London riots in [...]
In Praise of Life Work: Against Jobs
Today, walking the dogs, air heavy with a cold mist, moving up a gentle grade into the rising sun, trees in autumn raiment, yellow and fading reds, my eyes are on the road ahead, yet unfocused, not really looking at anything, but ahead of me a Native American (what tribe?) waits in a crouch at [...]
A Big Secret: Democracy Doesn’t Exist
Listen, come closer…closer…that’s it. I have a secret. Democracy does not exist. Why not? So many reasons! But let’s focus on Democracy first by defining it and then use a recent national example of something extremely undemocratic to illustrate how the USA is not one, cannot be one, if this is exemplary of our government. [...]
Alone in America
Yesterday a Bloomington man with a long criminal history took his wife hostage by holding a gun to her head and walking with her down Rogers Street. He was apparently agitated enough, shaking his gun at police, his wife, and even himself, that a member of the Critical Incidence Response team shot and killed him. [...]
