I am happy to note that President Barack Obama continues to concentrate his political message on the idea that the left and right halves of American society, embodied mostly by a dysfunctional and partisan Congress but also at the grassroots...
66 Very few things in life are as certain as political paradigms refusing to change absent massive, and sometimes violent, action by ordinary people in sustained grassroots efforts measured in decades rather than years. Electing Barack Obama didn't make that rule invalid. ...
“…go out and make me do it.”
"We have been told that we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant." - Barack Obama, New Hampshire Primary Concession Speech, January 8, 2008 So it was then and so it...
Preaching to a Choir of Cynics
Back during the heated days of the presidential primary race, just after I moved to Barack Obama when my first choice Dennis Kucinich dropped out, the whole "Obamabot" thing was born through the steadfast insistence of Hillary's more creative supporters. ...
Obamanation
38 I was talking with my friend yesterday before going to see Book of Eli (excellent film) and wondered aloud when it became commonly accepted that governments at the local, state and federal level would bleed red ink as a matter of...
Mo Money, Mo Money, Mo Money
Par for the course in Pax Americana holds that if a law is not in keeping with the current junta's notion of what is legal they simply go around it as if it didn't even exist. Or change the law...
Posse Comitatus Act(ors)
For the last 40 years, America has lived George Orwell's worst nightmare. It was a bit more subtle than Orwell imagined, but our domination by powerful interests has been no less complete than the dystopian world the author described in...
The Best Defense is a Good Offense
If you haven't seen Food, Inc. and still eat at fast food restaurants, you might want to ignore this blog or skip the trailer as neither will make that McBurger sit any easier. The film was almost enough to make...