Michael Moore and Principles Over Patriotism
The American President, Barack Obama, has announced that anyone who has any questions about his decisions, and prescribed actions in Pakistan, and the execution of Osama Bin Laden, “needs to have their head examined.” While a generous interpretation of this statement might consider this a reflection of the man’s confidence in the correctness of his […]
This Is What “Demockracy” Looks Like
As long as we’re on the topic (for the last time, at least for a good long while) I decided to move this post up (and several others still to appear). The context is this video by Katie Goodman of Broad Comedy. It’s a little ditty that uses “f**ked” as a hook and to entertain, […]
Mexico’s May 8th Marcha Nacional and America’s Stupid War on Drugs
If it wasn’t for the Patriotic circle-jerk dominating every news network in America, celebrating the extra-territorial, internationally illegal, execution of a marginalized enemy figure-head, you might have heard that America’s neighbors to the south are raising their voices against a travesty that is destroying both their society as well as your own. May 8 has […]
America Salutes Bin Laden’s Assassins
There’s nothin’ like invading someone else’s country and killing a few people – even if it took ten years, and the death of over 920,000 people, and the injuring of 1,700,000 more, in two other countries that had nothing to do with ever attacking, or threatening to attack, your country – to make ya want […]
The Fight of America’s Working Class: Your Great-Grandparents Would Be Ashamed
The plight of the middle class, the working class, the laborers and workers of the world, has seldom improved – and even then in incremental steps only – and often only to be briefly enjoyed, lost, and fought for again another day. Documents from the American labor movement, over a hundred years ago, prove that […]
