The Evening Blues - 2-6-17
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 02/06/2017 - 3:56pm
Archdiocese deeply disturbed
Submitted by Robyn on Mon, 02/06/2017 - 3:13pmThe paragraph made me chuckle a bit:
The Archdiocese of St. Louis is deeply saddened and disturbed by the Boy Scouts of America’s announcement that the organization will allow transgender youth into its programs.
Activism done right, Seattle divestment
Submitted by Nastarana on Mon, 02/06/2017 - 9:31amMinneapolis City Council elections
Submitted by Robyn on Sun, 02/05/2017 - 3:09pmTwo openly transgender people are running for positions on Minneapolis' City Council this year.
Toxic Wildfires Causing Pollution, Climate Disruption, Etc. Funded by Big Banks & US Investors in Palm Oil
Submitted by Steven D on Sun, 02/05/2017 - 12:34pmOne of the worst crimes being committed on the planet is the deforestation of tropical rain forests in Indonesia. Indeed, investment in palm oil is responsible for a massive release of greenhouse gases and toxic wildfires in Indonesia, which produced a deadly miasma of gases that killed an estimated 100,000 people in 2015.
Perhaps we need this?
Submitted by LaFeminista on Sun, 02/05/2017 - 10:59amIt may be the right time for this type of confrontation.
As the Trump administration prepared to challenge a ruling against its executive order on refugees and travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, experts said the US had been brought to the brink of a full-blown constitutional crisis.
The NFL Has Managed To Diminish My Favorite Pastime
Submitted by Mark from Queens on Sun, 02/05/2017 - 10:54am(Three years ago on the eve of the Super Bowl I published this at TOP. Thought I'd re-publish here today, in light of how the cross-section of fascism includes the massive pro sports industry residing squarely at the heart of corporatism and militarism. NFL coaches Rex Ryan and Bill Belichick are on record having publicly "endorsed" Trump, and the Fraternal Order of Police swung their weight behind him too.
Marijuana and the Law; Light Up or Leave Me Alone
Submitted by Alligator Ed on Sun, 02/05/2017 - 2:58amJustice is blind and also slow. In America Justice remains slow but is no longer blind, overtly giving power to elites and corporations. Many inequities in law we experience today are the results of a two-tiered "justice" system. As the purpose of this essay is not to concentrate on judicial failings, and by extension societal failings, but to discuss a topic in which restrictions are antiquated, racist in origin, and empirically self-defeating.
Spitballing a New Left Politics
Submitted by Dallasdoc on Sat, 02/04/2017 - 5:59pmI've been somewhat out of pocket the past couple of months, avoiding politics and current events to a great degree. Have had a few changes in my work life as well, which will give me a little more time for my family and my thoughts. I've been doing some reading here at C99 and at a few other places, but mostly stepping back. As a result, I've found my political views evolving somewhat beyond the direction they were taking around the time of the November election.
From the Age of Utopia to the Age of Nature
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Sat, 02/04/2017 - 4:45pmPhilosophical innovation from, say, the Enlightenment (i.e. from the mid-18th century) to the Seventies has focused upon a set of concepts which I've been calling, for the sake of brevity, utopia. Sure, calling it "utopia" means that, when I suggest that the historic period cited above was the Age of Utopia, I need to clarify what I mean by utopia if I am to have an audience at all. Utopia, as discussed here, is the intersection of human desire and human world-picture.
