There's this wonderful children's book called "If..." by Sarah Perry, which has all sorts of zany pictures in it -- if mice were hair, if worms had wheels, if frogs ate rainbows and so on, all around this theme of "if." It's now got a YouTube video of course.
The sense of entitlement, exceptionalism and sense privilege contained within a perversion of the American Dream has reached its logical conclusion.
Reading this story - another version of the MSF Kunduz war crime:
"I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America
(Analysis.) Many liberal thinkers have put forth good reasons for senators to reject President Trump's nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. People for the American Way, one of a coalition of groups that delivered block-Gorsuch petitions with one million online signatures, cited his ...
troubling views and record when it comes to siding with wealthy and powerful interests, over the rights of working people, women, and the disabled.
We need to sprint away from Yemen. Don't walk, saunter, stroll, jog, or trot.
We should be running at top speed to get out of there like our pants and hair are on fire.
House Bill 2673 has cleared the Oregon House on a 37-23 vote. The Bill allows people with birth certificates issued in the state to be updated in a private interaction with the Oregon Health Authority, allowing people to avoid public paper trails and court involvement.
I don't watch a whole lot of TV. But this morning, I was in a place where CNN was on and I watched a Virginia Repub congressman, who is on the House Budget Committee, talk about voting against the healthcare bill (Trumpcare, if we must).
I wasn't surprised by the fact that he's voting against the bill. He says it doesn't go far enough. I suspect he means that it doesn't go far enough to further enrich and keep the rich alive, while the middle class and poor can pray.
Morning – I am going to be hosting Thursday’s for a while from the eastern side of the Cascade Mountain range in Oregon. I plan on writing on the subject of resilience, share the experience of the seasonal flow of farm life and discuss thoughts that pop into by head as I walk the pastures to irrigate, fix fence and work with livestock.
A recent essay said liberals must no longer say "liberal," "left," "progressive," or "populist." (http://caucus99percent.com/content/liberals-must-not-say-liberal-left-pr...) As to "populist" specifically, the essay pointed out that, since the Democratic primary (or earlier), neoliberals had been working to associate populism with the racism of pro-Jim Crow Democrats and Dixiecrats.
