I saw the following story on ABC13 and my blood began to boil. I have constantly contended that unless we got the right balance between The Individual, The Corporation, and The Government that a corporate centric country will stifle innovation and the freedom of the individual to form their own businesses and be self-sufficient. In […]

Yet again in a Republican Debate, specifically in the FoxNews Republican debate, the Republican audience displays their overt prejudice. We must not forget the Republican audience’s suggestion that an uninsured thirty something should be allowed to die if he gets sick or their gleeful support for Rick Perry and Texas being the execution capital of […]

The punch line the Right likes to use is that the wealthy pays most of the taxes. The answer to that is DUH? They have most of the wealth, they have most of the income. Then they ask why they pay the most taxes? I will continue to remind folks of the following from an […]

Many activists continue to put their hopes of combating our new day robber barons with the Internet. They claim they can simply disregard the media and organize over the Internet. Many activist also isolate themselves from the body politic proper under the false belief that all can be done online and in doing so they […]

Elizabeth Warren is running for Massachusetts Senator to regain the seat rented by Scott Brown. She is introducing herself to her constituency as we speak. While many Democrats and Progressives seem to be scared of embracing Class Warfare, I am not. In fact I wrote a book titled “As I See It: Class Warfare The […]

I blogged an article that questions social networking efficacy in protest movements absent true resolve of those for whom the protest is for. Ray Pensador tweeted me his article below posted at DailyKOS. I actually like his method and think something like he states would work if done peacefully and in a completely non-threatening manner. […]

Professor D.E. Wittkower’s article below is probing. He points out a very important aspect of the expectation of social networking and the real effects on movements. I was never convinced that the movement in Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, and all the other countries were primarily a social media/networking effect. I think more importantly it gave us […]

A dear friend just emailed this to me. I simply had to blog it. Inasmuch as this is meant to be funny, is it not sad how real it is? This is what I call the mother of all inconsistencies. The Republicans supported payroll tax cuts. Now that President Obama has payroll pay cuts in […]