The Evening Blues - 2-25-21
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 02/25/2021 - 1:56pm
Open Thread 2 25 21
Submitted by snoopydawg on Thu, 02/25/2021 - 7:03am
How about a fun trip back memory lane?
Monkey Trials, Ferlinghetti walking on and all hail to Beatnicks
Submitted by smiley7 on Wed, 02/24/2021 - 3:46pmThe Best
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, painter and political activist who co-founded the famous City Lights bookshop in San Francisco and became an icon of the city himself, has died aged 101.
The Evening Blues - 2-24-21
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 02/24/2021 - 3:40pm
Latin America looks ready to swing left
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 02/24/2021 - 2:24pmLast October Bolivia convincingly elected a socialist, kicking the U.S.-backed right-wing coup government to the curb.
It gets more complicated after that.
Open Thread 24 FEB 21
Submitted by QMS on Wed, 02/24/2021 - 4:00am
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The Evening Blues - 2-23-21
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 02/23/2021 - 3:04pm
If you don't like DC.s latest It Girl, Neera Tanden,
Submitted by Nastarana on Tue, 02/23/2021 - 12:59pmyou are an anti-Asian, anti-strong woman bigot. I guess I better fess up, Guilty as Charged. The Biden admin is pulling out all the stops for this particular lame appointment. The Hill has a good run down of this intrigue:
2 Post-blizzard Texas Exposés from WSWS
Submitted by wendy davis on Tue, 02/23/2021 - 12:57pm‘Half of Texas without clean water as state and federal governments look the other way’, Chase Lawrence, Feb. 19, 2021 (w/permission, large excerpts)
waiting in line for propane in houston
“More than 14.6 million Texans, about half of the population of the state, remained under a boil-water advisory Friday, according to Texas Commission on Environmental Quality spokeswoman Tiffany Young. This encompasses more than 1,225 water supply systems and 63 percent of Texas counties following the record winter storm which hit the state last weekend.
In a press conference Austin Water Director Greg Meszaros stated that “we know that there are tens of thousands of leaks,” and that the Austin Fire Department responded to “thousands upon thousands of burst pipes.” In Houston, the fire department received almost 5,000 reports of burst pipes.
Coffee and Accountability
Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Tue, 02/23/2021 - 5:25am
Learning to Play
