my thoughts on my life and my world
UPDATE, APRIL 16, 2008: The domestic spying has only increased since this was written. Now, they want local police to have access to Measurement and Signal Intelligence (MASINT) satellites, which see through concrete. Think your home is your castle? To your curious Homeland Security snoops, your castle is made out of [...]
Three years later…
Think Progress said it best:
Click here to be taken to their excellent, brief article. Read it. And weep.
It’s as American as the apple pie grandma can afford to make you because she collects a Social Security check. Stop demonizing the word! From ignorance of their own history, economy, and government, most Americans flinch at the word “socialist.”
Communism is not an inevitable “next step” after socialism. The Soviet form of [...]
Found on Candide’s Notebooks:
The absurdity of Americans’ rejection of the Dubai deal is equally striking, given that, as Larry Lindsey wrote in the Wall Street Journal last week, the United Arab Emirates “provides the main base to service U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean ” and is “the largest servicer of our [...]
Joyce Marcel is one of my favorite essayists. I read her on commondreams.org. Today’s essay really spoke my mind on the subject of capitalism. Here’s an excerpt, and a link to the full article.
Two capitalisms stopped in a snowy wood; one took the path less traveled by, and that made all the [...]
“If it keeps on rainin, the levee’s going to break…”
