Diaries
Unemployment Hell
Submitted by The Aspie Corner on Tue, 06/19/2018 - 6:35pmThat's basically what my life is. Sure, I live in a nice enough place and I can get to most places I need to with a golf cart or motorized quad cycle, I'm married and have a cat, but all that is pointless in the eyes of a 'real world' that views people like me as nothing more than a useless eater all because through no fault of my own getting any job I'm actually trained to do is all but impossible.
The Evening Blues - 6-19-18
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 06/19/2018 - 12:42pmInternational Politics Finals - Liberalism Vs. Capitalism
Submitted by detroitmechworks on Tue, 06/19/2018 - 10:51amLinda: Good Morning, we're looking at Great Game, with this the Politics final between the Liberals and the Capitalists.
Tom: It wasn't even sure if this match would come off today, as there seems to be a huge amount of fans of the Fascist and Socialist teams boycotting the match.
Linda: Yes it was a shame that the actions of those fans caused the teams themselves to be be barred completely from the competition. Although what a win for the Capitalists, eh Tom?
Tuesday Open Thread: Jesus and Woody and Ry Cooder
Submitted by phillybluesfan on Tue, 06/19/2018 - 6:11amUS conservative Christian leaders' willingness to support a president known for lying, cheating and stoking of bigotry has generated calls of hypocrisy. Big Al recently pointed out how "sacred" scripture is being misused to explain away Godawful behavior. Yet from their perspective, the Trump administration has delivered on its promises to advance a conservative agenda.
Unfortuanately, despite how much we belittle these practices and wish they did not matter, the power and money behind them packs a powerful punch. We damned well better realize that fact and find spiritual resources of our own ... or we will continue to be kicked to the political curb.
And that brings us to the immortal Woody Guthrie and his disciple Ry Cooder ...
1 minute and 10 seconds of brilliance
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 06/18/2018 - 11:38pmI cannot add anything to this.
It's amusing, now --
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Mon, 06/18/2018 - 6:19pmthat the Corker-Kaine AUMF is now being opposed in that most quintessential of conservative publications, the National Review, which has amusingly come out against this most recent of legal cementings of Dick Cheney's For
a current climate chaos compendium: Part I
Submitted by wendy davis on Mon, 06/18/2018 - 4:48pmFirst, from Robert Hunziker’s “State of the Climate – It’s Alarming!’, counterpunch, ‘June 15, 2018, (in which he actually does explain his use of the exclamation point in his title.)