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The Great and Powerful…
The thing I like about this meme, besides the eerie resemblance, is that it suggests that we’re coming to the end of the movie, when the man who derived his power from getting others to believe that he was all-powerful is finally revealed to all as the charlatan that he is. Then we wake up. Read more
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Guns & cars & rules, oh my!
I’m not a big fan of either guns or cars. I believe both produce a lot of unnecessary harm in our world (and our country, specifically). But I’m realistic — I know that neither one is going away any time soon. Certainly not here in the good old US of A. So the realistic question Read more
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Mad Tea Party
In attempt to better understand current political events, I’ve been reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Our nation’s politics have clearly gone down the rabbit hole and just get curiouser and curiouser. This Tea Party is mad in more ways than one. Confusion is contagion. Time stands still; no progress is possible. The confused are played Read more
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Not Your Grandfather’s GOP
One thing that gets lost in the 24-hr news cycle of political reporting is a longer view of political developments—not just for today, this week, or this election cycle, but over a span of decades. One of the most significant political developments over the past half century has been the extreme rightward shift of the Read more
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Declarations of Independence and Interdependence
When in the course of human events certain social constructs outgrow their original purposes, and instead serve to undermine the public good in myriad ways, it becomes necessary for natural people to reclaim their power usurped by such constructs. Corporations were originally created to enable various types of large-scale, collective economic activity beyond the capability Read more
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Unpublished notes from a reluctant class warrior
As I try to collect my thoughts & find the time to publish something current, I just found this piece I wrote in early fall that for some reason I never published. In the hopes that late is better than never (& since class war has not disappeared in the ensuing months), I offer it Read more
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