bobswern has a great diary up - Link leads to DKOS.
“Responding to Clinton Barb, Sanders Blasts US Imperialism in Latin America”
Some news, opinion and tunes to start your day.
The New Mastersounds - Monday Meters
As awful and venal as the Clinton influence peddling machine is, there should be no doubt who should get your vote come November, if Bernie fails to be the nominee. We have gone from a situation where we had 2 Wall Street parties - the socially conservative one and the socially liberal one - to something a whole lot more dangerous.
... or how to manage a bad blog break-up.
are there parallels between a real-life break up and ending a relationship with a blog? apparently so.
the reasons for the break-up aside, the aftermath of a bad end can express itself in anger, disappointment, some obsessive behaviors, and a desire to destroy the reasons for the relationship in the first place.
well, at least in my experience.
Brothers, Sisters and Fellow Herbalists,
I have this theory about how we can get Bernie to win the primaries ...
Einstein says that our perception of time is an illusion.
In 1985, when Bernie Sanders was in his second term as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, a writer named Russell Banks published his breakthrough novel, Continental Drift. It would earn Banks the John Dos Passos Prize, and make him a finalist for the Pulitzer for fiction. Sometime after the book came out, Banks accepted an assignment to profile the self-described socialist mayor.
For anyone who is familiar with Tom Watson this will require no explanation.
For anyone who isn't familiar with him - best to keep it that way.
It looks like there are three new ads on the air in Chicago for Bernie. I do not watch much TV outside of Netflix/Amazon/PBS so I probably won't see them live but here they are:
The first one is a quick biographical piece that focuses on his history of fighting for the rights of minorities.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvPvZWnpMPA]
I suspect my old friends are here too. I feel welcomed already.
It's raining at last here on the left coast and I am hearing the frog chorus outside; life is good, and I have a retirement mission of being a true Friend of the Earth and of progressive political policies.
