I’ve tried to write something but failed. I stayed off the twitter because there’s no good snark and that’s all I do and because there were 20 5-year olds slaughtered today, and all I could do was sit numb at my computer and avoid it. I was just starting to feel a tiny spark of […]
From the monthly archives:
December 2012
“Fox “News” seems to have jumped the line from propaganda to agitprop as it trumpets a new story on violence – Attack of the Union Thugs™ – in front of Michigan’s Capital. Seems a major douchenoozle called Steven Crowder, a Fox News correspondent, got his giant jaw cracked by a labor protester, angry about Michigan’s passage of […]
Lily of the Valley
Written by Al Franken via the Atlantic My friend and hero Paul Wellstone died 10 years ago this week. I miss him. And so does pretty much anyone who cares about economic and social justice. Paul was the kind of progressive many of us strive to be — feisty, fearless, and energetic. When today’s progressives remember […]
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook […]