"Words that make actions speak louder."
It’s was 80 years ago this week that the Crash of 1929 kicked off the Great Depression. Not quite 79 years later, the fall of Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008, sent the stock market into a meltdown precipitated by the crises of such Wall Street Giants as Bear Stears and AIG, among others. Comparisons […]
I’ve referenced this story in a previous post, about a woman who was denied health insurance because (a) she was raped, (b) sought prophylactic HIV/AIDS treatment because it was unknown if her rapist wore a condom, and (c) sought therapy for the psychological problems resulting from being raped (in her case agoraphobia, which made her […]
This is something I wish I’d been a part of, and I hope they call me if they need an extra baritone next time. (It’s rare that my vocal training and my politics intersect.) Plus, the guy who got “punk’d” was none other than Bill McInturff, the guy who gave us Harry and Louise. (Not […]
If you’re tired of hearing about the recovery you can’t feel, while seeing headline after headline about how well Goldman Sachs is doing — or who’s getting big bonuses on Wall Street now, while the rest of the country is facing the grim reality of long-term joblessness — you might want to come to Chicago […]
When I was up You would always come round But when I needed a friend Oh, you could never be found I got a hole Where my heart used to be I wouldn’t treat a dog, no, no The way you treated me Cher, “I Wouldn’t Treat a Dog the Way You Treated Me” Hey, […]
I saw this on Friday, but didn’t get around to writing something about it until today. Since then, of course, many other bloggers have covered it by now. But when a Democrat says something like what Sen. Mary Landrieu did on health care reform, I can’t help chiming in even days later, if only because […]
This is already being done by plenty of other people, but I can’t help myself. When a guy who just a month ago said “We need segregated buses,” takes umbrage at the notion that people think he’s a racist… Well, it’s just too hard to resist. They are the ones with prejudice and bigotry coursing […]
Maya Angelou has been credited with saying “When people show you who they really are, believe them,” which is sometimes expanded to “When people show you who they really are, believe them the first time.” The idea is that doing so may be crucial to protecting your well-being and your life. Well, the folks in […]
Wow. Break out the spatulas, and get ready to scrape the exploded brains of right-wingers off the ceiling, walls, etc. Apparently, President Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. US President Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee said he won it for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international […]
If I were to summarize message Michael Moore’s new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story in one sentence, it would be this: Capitalism is not a form of government. That’s the answer to the question posed at the beginning of the movie, via 1950s educational/propaganda films. Capitalism is not a form of government. It is a […]