It seems to be a feature of the kewl and bitchen pundits (though Thom Hartmann is a long-term vote Blue no matter who) during the early stages of Presidential election run-ups to put out lengthy criticisms of the "left wing." The "criticize the Left" phenomenon is reminiscent of an earlier criticism -- that of Markos Moulitsas, who told everyone participating on his blog on the Ides of March of 2016 tha

Britain Too:

Recently I ran across a review written by Henry Heller of a book about the history of poverty in Britain: from feudalism to neoliberal capitalism. The review was also published in Popular Resistance.

The writer of the book is Jim Silver, a professor emeritus from the University of Winnipeg in Canada. The book is Scoundrels and Shirkers: Capitalism and Poverty in Britain. The book was just published (May 2023). I will be getting a copy and reading it ASAP!

An image from the Tudor/Elizabethan Age - The Payment of the Tithes by Pieter Brueghel the Younger (or his workshop). I think I know some of these people! (Image is from wikipedia. Click on the image to get the link.)

Thom Hartmann has this opinion piece out on Raw Story titled "why you shouldn't throw your vote away for Cornel West." Of course, you have to buy a membership to participate in Raw Story, so I don't link to it.

The key moment in the plot of Dr.Strangelove comes as the lunatic Wing Commander named Jack Ripper was trying to start World War III. The civilian authority of President Merkin Muffley is trying to thwart his renegade order to the airplanes under his command to attack the Soviet Union with nuclear bombs. One of three characters played by Peter Sellers, an RAF officer named Mandrake, tries to talk some sense into him, in hopes of getting him to recall the planes before Armageddon.

Political blather in this era tends to conform to a certain set of code-words, which are repurposed from their original meanings to fit the complaint one reads in George Orwell's Politics and the English Language: "In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible."

It's fairly clear there are mass migrations happening now. Not just animals and fish, but increasingly, people too.