Archive for July 2018
Scr@w It, Pruitt
So what to say about Scott Pruitt, now that he has resigned? Well… I’ll tell you a story. Once upon a time, long ago, I was at a certain University. At the aforesaid university, there was a pompous idiot who was the head of graduate studies in my department. He thought he was God’s Gift.…
Read MoreTrump Giant Baby Balloon in London
Thursday, 7/5/2018, the Mayor of London has given activists permission to fly a Trump giant baby balloon high in the air, very close to the UK Parliament during President Trump’s visit to London this coming week. The locals and many political officials in the UK aren’t happy about his coming to visit and there is…
Read MoreDo Unto Thee What Thou Hast Done Unto Others
By Rabbi Yeshaia Charles Familant Procrustus, in Greek mythology, was the heartless and malicious son of Poseidon, the sea-god. Procrustus owned a fortress on Mount Korydallos midway between the cities of Eleusis and Athens. A blacksmith by profession, he whiled away his hours by enticing unsuspecting guests to stay the night and sleep upon his…
Read MoreAnnapolis Survivors Get Death Threats, Mockery
Yes, folks, it is never ending. According to the Raw Story, journalists at the Maryland paper the Capital Gazette…men and women who saw their friends gunned down in cold blood…are getting everything from death threats to emails celebrating the murders of their colleagues. In a powerfully written editorial, the surviving members of the Gazette‘s staff…
Read MoreA New and Revised Declaration
Editor’s Note: A common theme for today is what the Declaration of Independence would look like if written now, in an age of Trump. Here is Rabbi Yeshaia Charles Familant‘s take on the topic. We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men, women and children in our land and every human community…
Read More4 July Belongs To Us!
And, appropriately, it begins in July…only a few days away from the fourth. The history of politics the world over for the last forty years has been that of a slow drift to the Right, as hugely wealthy donors, increasingly corrupt “conservative” parties, and an ever more angry (and gullible) lower middle class have combined…
Read MoreAnnapolis Shooter Had Connections To The Right
And so we all know, now, that Jarrod Ramos, the madman who walked into the offices of the Capital Gazette newspaper and killed five people, had connections with the far Right. His attack doesn’t seem to have been politically motivated, at least not to the best of anyone’s knowledge at the moment, but he was…
Read MoreCivility, Russian Style.
There’s been a lot written about civil discourse, lately. About how us liberal snowflakes are a bunch of pussies and obsessed with being PC so as not to tread on anyone’s toes and also, somehow, using language that is deeply offending the opposition. Whilst right wing figures like Milo Yiannopoulos* can call for the murder…
Read MoreJune 30 Rally For Families
On June 30, there were rallies all over America for immigrant children and immigrant rights. Hundreds of thousands of people showed up in all 50 states and in city after city. We had one such rally here in Albuquerque and our own Matt Blanchfield was there. He sent us these amazing photos of good, honest,…
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