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Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 9:35 pm
I can't remember if I tweeted you this link but it's to an article by a Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit Marquette University. I h...Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 8:26 pm
The six Republican Senators who sponsored the contraception mandate consist of two women who now have Stockholm Syndrome, a man who was driv...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.
Category Archives: Producerism
Morning Awful: King Castle
John K. Castle (pictured right) is rich. Because wealthy CEOs are the American royalty, Castle thinks he’s king. Recently, waiter Paul Kucik messed up and brought his bill to the table instead of charging it to an account. Kings never … Continue reading
Unions as a Rational Response
My friend Todd Farally wrote a DailyKos diary about his union shop: One of my brothers in Local 19 who we’ll call Jim (not his real name) told me his wife went in for a checkup and ended up needing … Continue reading
Billionaire Concern Troll Has His Own Idiom
I’ve seen this meme burbling up through the wingnutosphere the last few weeks; now it’s burst to the surface via the pen of Leon G. Cooperman, who is important because he is rich. That doesn’t make him well-informed, however, because … Continue reading
The Man Who Would Be King
By Emilia 1956 Make no mistake. If the GOP win the White House in 2012, here’s the de facto President:- OK, EmoProgs, think you can live with that? Because I can’t.
The Truth About Class Warfare
If you were to ask most Americans what “prosperity” meant, they would probably imagine scenes of plentiful employment, falling rates of food stamp use, etc. However, when oligarchy uses the word “prosperity,” 99 percent of Americans are not included: “We … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Congress
Andrew Sullivan uses the word “oligarchy” to describe this picture: As I keep saying, the American institution most in need of occupation is Congress. Not only does the 1% own the legislative branch of our federal government, they actually dominate … Continue reading
Senate Can Create Infrastructure Bank or Give Millionaires $13,457 Each
The Senate is supposed to vote today on another part of Obama’s infrastructure jobs proposals. A bipartisan idea, the infrastructure bank would attract private capital to infrastructure projects with $10 billion in seed money. Greg Sargent: If the new infrastructure … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Political Poop
This is why you let the Civil Rights icon speak at your mic check: “The attitude I have seen here is not consistent with any civil rights protests I have seen in Atlanta,” Mr. (Kasim) Reed said in an interview, … Continue reading
A Map of Global Oligarchy
Having mapped the global oligarchy (above, with the biggest ownership companies in red), this New Scientist article was doing fine when: Crucially, by identifying the architecture of global economic power, the analysis could help make it more stable. By finding the … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Wages at a 12-Year Low
Next time someone wonders what happened to the American work ethic, your answer should be the American job. 1) Half of all workers made less than $26,364, the median wage in 2010. That means the typical wage is at its … Continue reading
