I am saddened and outraged by corruption in the Sanders-Clinton primary. Truth vs. Lies: the lies won, in the short term anyway. Outrage, however, is a thin substitute for action that springs from compassion and big mind.
Note: This is a very long post, and contains the response of the authors of the study, "Are we witnessing a dishonest election?
A debate arose in the comments on JtC's latest diary on moderation. The issue is: does moderation censor free expression? And if so, are we OK with it?
Let's talk turkey.
Or is there something behind that press conference more than what was on the surface?
I really wish some of you who are good at reading body language, facial expressions would have a look or another look at the video of Bernie's press conference yesterday afternoon. It seems to me some of them looked pretty happy about some of the things Bernie said, as though they knew a secret about what he really meant by what he is saying.
to call the Orlando tragedy an act of Islamic extremism, even though it is known the attacker was not religious and has a violent past that had nothing to do with religion. Did he try to glorify his personal homophobia with religion? Yes. But this was all about his personal hatred of gay people. This shooting didn't have any more to do with Islam than Dylan Roof's shooting had to do with Christianity. I guess her conversion to the Republican Party ideas, except for abortion, is complete.
of a friend. I am close friends with some of my former high school teachers (I met them in their first year teaching...they weren't much older then, and are far less older, now.) My old civics teacher has me included on an email list, and this came through, yesterday. I thought it was worth sharing, and the writer, "Ron", said yes, go for it.
What right is lost if you can't buy a high capacity magazine?
What state interest is served by allowing their sale?
June 13 is the 164th day of the year, there are 201 days left in 2016
13 is a prime number, it is the 6th prime
13 is also a prime if the digits are reversed (31).
13 is a fibonacci number (0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13).
13 is the hypotenuse of a right traingle with sides of 5 & 12. 5, 12 & 13 can be used to test for right angles, like 3,4 & 5 can
This is a post from Reich's facebook page.
The May jobs report was a huge disappointment. Only 38,000 jobs were added in May, the slowest rates in five years.
