Here we have your basic Emergency Open Thread
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sat, 12/30/2017 - 9:33amThe sun is up, I'm up and there is no OT. OTOH, I've got a ton to do today, no plan, no topic, and no real inspiration. However, some ideas
The sun is up, I'm up and there is no OT. OTOH, I've got a ton to do today, no plan, no topic, and no real inspiration. However, some ideas
The Russiagate scandal is a hilariously, fact-less conspiracy theory. But it serves a purpose of distracting people away from outright government stealing on a scale comparable to feudal robber barons.
Civil asset forfeiture was always an idea open to abuse, and abuse it they have done.
I haven't had time to transfer shots from the main camera, but Fred says 'hi!' via a cheap point and shoot.
If the whole 'New Year' thing is your thing, come on down....
Or, post a photo or two.
This essay is not about political power, although inevitably it dovetails into such. This is about another meaning of power.
From Webster's New 20th Century Dictionary Unabridged, Second Edition:
power, n. [old French pooir, from an old infinitive podia, from LL. n potter, to be able, used for posse, to able, from potis, able and esse, to be]
...5. physical force or energy; as in electric power.
For all of you fellow Californian's, take a gander at this Jimmy Dore interview of Alison Hartson:
There are two incompatible movements in today's Democratic Party.
A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself--half your life goes that way, till you are 45 or 50. Then, if you are lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.
-- Robert Penn Warren
Dear Mr. Warren,
It recently occurred to me that whenever someone talks about the economy in America, whether it is a politician or a media pundit, they always talk about the "middle class" and how it's shrinking.
They rarely if ever say "working class" or "working poor", and they never ever mention "extreme poverty". Why not? Because it doesn't exist here?