March 2012
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FASCISM, AMERICAN STYLE
My point is NOT that Sarah Palin is fascist. Though the “Christian Warrior” church she belonged to in Alaska is certainly fascist… and anyone who would literally wrap herself in the flag is surely shameless.
Nazism was not the only kind of possible fascism. Each country going fascist would adapt it to itself. What I saw with the Republican regime of George W. Bush and those...
February 2012
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TEK
One of baseball’s all-time great catchers has announced his retirement.
Since his lifetime batting average is .259, he may not make the Hall of Fame, but that would be a travesty. He belongs in Cooperstown. To wit:
1) He was among the all-time best at handling a pitching staff, calling games and settling his team. A catcher’s primary job. (None of that involves hitting.)
2) He...
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AMERICA'S WAR AGAINST RELIGION
OMG!! Conservative Christians in America are forever whining that they are persecuted! There is a “War Against Christians” in America! Last week, a group of men (no women) testified before a Republican Congressional committee hearing on requiring co-pays for birth control and said they are “ready to die” for their conscience. OMG. Christian martyrs in the Roman...
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GREAT PRESIDENTS (AS SEEN ON FOX)
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FORWARD TO THE PAST
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STATE RAPE
Can the Christian witch hunters be far behind?
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NEXT UP: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
In its continuing, activist judicial war against all the progress liberalism made since the 1960s, the Supreme Court will soon reconsider affirmative action. In their previous decision in this Texas case, they left standing the principle of affirmative action to redress racial injustice while disallowing many of the remedies. Now they’re poised to strike down the principle altogether.
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FREE ENTERPRISE BINGO
Beyond the inherent moral sadness of this bingo board, the contextual moral sadness? The contemporary right-wing mentality displayed here is the same as that which advocated England’s Poor Laws 600 years ago and Robber Baron capitalism 200 years ago.
And here we are in 2012 with reactionary economic forces still powerful enough to make us fight these elemental moral battles yet again.
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BIBLICAL MARRIAGE
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AMERICAN IRRATIONALS
What’s unnerving today is the sheer mindlessness and irrationality which renders our democracy all but dysfunctional. Fundamentalists are a big part of the problem… they actually take pride in their anti-rational, anti-“secular reality” mentality. And the GOP has managed to produce a boatload of seemingly insane elected officials, from Congress on down to sheriffs and...
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LETTER FROM AN EX-SLAVE TO HIS EX-MASTER
In 1865, Col. P.H. Anderson wrote Jourdan Anderson, a man the Confederate colonel once owned as a slave, and asked him to come back and work for him for wages. Jourdan dictated the following reply, which has been on the internet for years but went viral this week because of Facebook.
P.S. The photo above is not Jourdan Anderson but another elderly ex-slave.
Dayton, Ohio,
August 7, 1865
To...
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GOP AWKWARD
ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) is a right-wing corporate-funded lobby which seeks to overturn the “socialist” policies of our current president by “working with” Republican state legislators. They’re bringing high-powered Washington lobbyists to state capitols. Wanna know why so many states all of a sudden and all at the same time started attacking...
Taylor Swift on TV: The song was about the hardest period in my life. A lot of rejection, criticism. . .
Mom: Oh, keep writing, white girl, your life has been so hard.
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CONFUSED FREEDOM
Roman Catholic bishops and right-wing Protestants (who think the pope is the Anti-Christ except when their political interests align) say the Obama administration is violating their religious freedom by requiring some religiously-affiliated health providers to offer free contraceptive services. Tim Thomas, outspoken moralist and Boston Bruins goalie, is among those who have weighed in to...
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WHITNEY
Whitney Houston hit the big time like a force of nature. Stunningly beautiful, multi-talented and with pipes that allowed something previously unthinkable — comparisons to Aretha. Whitney Houston could sing!
Then she met Bobby Brown.
Back in the day, Bobby Brown was well-known around Boston, and not just for New Edition. He had multiple babies all over town, each by a different...
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CONGRATULATIONS, MITT
Mitt Romney just “won” the Maine caucus, giving him new momentum towards capturing the Republican nomination. Horse race journalists on the campaign trail take note.
Six thousand people voted in Maine. Mitt Romney won 39% of 6000 votes. It’s a mandate.
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NEW ENGLAND PSYCHE (Dialogue in my head)
As the hours wind down towards the Super Bowl kickoff, New England fans are waiting for it with both excitement and anxiety. With long-time fans of Boston teams it’s always psychological. Like the following dialogue I’ve been hearing in my head...
ME 1: Everyone’s picking the Giants.
ME 2: So what? I remember when every pundit and Jesus himself (according to Curt Warner)...
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CHRISTIAN RIGHT PORNOGRAPHY
I’m sure JC Penny knew what they were getting into when they announced they’d hired Ellen Degeneres as a spokeswoman. Predictably, a homophobic Christian group — this time an online crew called One Million Moms — has announced a campaign to boycott JC Penny because their members “have values.”
These are the same Christian Right-types who showed their...
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Democracy… I mean Plutocracy in action. But remember… the Supreme Court says your money is just as free to speak as theirs is.
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PUNDITS' DISEASE
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OUR INVISIBLE POOR
The morality of a nation is best judged by how its poor are treated.
A generation ago, there were enough non-poor people interested in being a moral nation that poverty was on the radar screen. Dr. King’s great cause was his Poor Peoples Campaign. The Welfare Rights Organization and others were organizing low income communities against the REAL CAUSES of poverty and decay: federal...