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  • Bad blogger! Good uprising! Catching up on a year’s worth of events

    Dear reader (hello? anyone still there?), I warned you that this would be “slow blogging,” but I never intended for my blog to go dark for more than a year. In the immortal words of Rick Perry, “Oops!” I feel especially remiss since, in my postings right after the 2010 elections (here, here, & here), Read more

  • Hot buttons of progressive populism

    Of course there is a class war, but it’s my class, the rich class, that is waging the war, and we’re winning. —Warren Buffett, third richest man in the world A couple days after the midterm elections I wrote about reasons to get mad over the growing influence of Big Money in our elections, and Read more

  • Post-election: The challenge for progressive populism

    The elections of last Tuesday were reportedly very bad for progressives. And in many ways they were. But in some ways, they could serve as a catalyst for something great. The question is: Which way forward from here? After a major progressive mobilization helped bring Obama into the White House & give Democrats a large Read more

  • Posts elsewhere (w/ great links!)

    I’ve neglected my own blog a bit as I’ve been posting to the Eat the State! blog lately. As we wait to see how deeply The Crazy has infected the American electorate, here are a couple things I posted at ETS! in October with a few awesome video links reflecting on the ways that The Read more

  • Don’t Be a Sucker! Viralize this!

    I don’t often recommend “educational films” made by the US military. But this one — “Don’t Be a Sucker,” from 1947 — is brilliant, and essential viewing for all Americans in 2010. (And it’s only 17 minutes long!) Its purpose was to warn Americans against falling prey to simplistic appeals to prejudice. Having just defeated Read more

  • “Peak Oil”: Framing problem?

    Someone forwarded a link to this movie tonight: “A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash.” Looks interesting, & I’ll check it out, but I’ve gotta say that the trailer contains some questionable assumptions. Seems to follow typical “peak oil” framing: Oil is running out & that nothing can quite replace what oil does, so that’s a Read more