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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Part 2 on the Need for Anti-Capitalist Democratic...
Things are certainly going to crapola for many poor Central American children these days. But at least they are not having their lives ruined by elected socialists. Barbarism is so much better....
View ArticleA Pseudonymous Requiem for Yesterday in My Radical Life
I thought I should pay a tiny tribute and wave goodbye to yesterday. I think that is something important for me to do. We have to know when to fight and when to retreat and redeploy. We have to...
View ArticleA Scientific Approach to the Tooth Fairy
A member of the next generation just came to me at my computer and sat down in my lap. She told me that last night, about 10:00 pm, after she had been put to bed, she lost a tooth. She decided not to...
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The Return of the Tooth Fairy
[Written last night before the Tooth Fairy went to bed; published the next morning using newfangled computerized timer device.] I won't make a habit of this. But it's largely Daily Kos's laudable...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: Gramsci and Gaza--Getting Palestinians Into Our Inner...
"We were talking about the space between us all"George Harrison"It's always the same story. For a fact that interests us, touches us, it is necessary that it becomes part of our inner life, it is...
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A Petri Dish for Fascism: Root Cause-Phobic Corn Syrup vs. "Libertarian" Faux...
Give the right credit, it is always on message, which is to say, always dissembling in order to always be pounding into our skulls, whether we realize it or not, one simple philosophical...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: you are not a piece of crap, and your solidarity work...
“Resist much, obey little.”hello cruel world. take that. and that. and that. leftists look injustice in the eye then look for a stick to poke it with, find lonely leaves of grass, and injustice blinks...
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Why I meditate
I come from an extended family of highly stressed out working class people who typically die young from overeating and resulting high blood pressure and heart disease (although increasingly modern...
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"Christian reconciliation" for dommies
If we want reconciliation in the human family, we need to acknowledge and abandon impediments to this reconciliation. Somewhere between the highly dysfunctional human family and the small units, often...
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AC Meetup: In Our Hearts & on the Ground: International Solidarity with the...
The most compelling socialist message is how we live our lives. In many places, such as the so-called "free" U.S., repression against socialists often effectively prevents us from coming out of the...
View ArticleNYT Recognizes Benefits of Cuban Medical Diplomacy
Eight days after urging President Obama to end the embargo on Cuba, the New York Times is giving credit where credit is due in the front lines of the fight against Ebola: with brave Cuban doctors and...
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AC Meetup: Capitalist "Skin and Beat 'Em" Tactics Against Students and...
Mexico has a lot more to be fearful of than its rural educators and those rural young people who try to make the best of things and both learn and fight to make a just society where students do not...
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Make No Mistake, There Will Be Trouble Down at the Hamster Wheel
I guarantee it. I am that trouble. I am making that trouble. And so should you. I feel our pain. I am sorry. It was sad. We try so hard. The deck is stacked. Turnout so low. Lies are told. Again and...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Poor Lovers Like Us--Illusion, Japan, and the Wholly...
Some illusions are not good. Keeping up appearances can be dangerous. We should have the courage to admit that we or those we love or should love are in need. A political party that is too afraid to...
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Illusions and "the Least of These" in the Japanese and Wholly Walton Empires
I am republishing a new version of this diary, first published last Sunday night for Anti-Capitalist Meetup before it was ready to see the world. I have extensively rewritten it in light of the pointed...
View Article"I Live in Fear": When the "Rule of Law" Is Not the Point, Mr. President
First and foremost, we are a nation built on the rule of law. And so, we need to accept that this decision was the grand jury’s to make. President Obama, 11/24/14, Transcript. Thus President Obama...
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"Tough S*** [Racist Epithet Deleted]": Lawandorder, Lake County, Florida,...
Surely, great racial progress has been made in the U.S. since 1972. After all, the racial epithet is now deleted. Just looksee above. So, I get some credit, right?Indeed, some of us grow as human...
View ArticleSo David Brooks Says Warren Can Win
http://mobile.nytimes.com/...It must be a Republican plot to spur a pointless wasteful Democratic primary. Or "sell newspapers." Or ingratiate himself to ... Me?Jeez. Maybe he"s right. Regardless of...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Cuba Chat: Support and Recruitment for Granma’s Next Voyage
Why I Write Personally and Plainly About Democratic Socialism Note: This is an excerpt from a lengthy essay on Cuba I wrote around eighteen months ago when, without my knowledge, the U.S. and Cuba...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: The Pope's Possible Future Role in Cuba
January 5, 2015, one day later, late at night postlude/preface: I probably in writing this post let my duty to socialism take too much of a backseat to my religious idiosyncrasies and natural tendency...
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