Let’s do an exercise. Don’t worry, I won’t make you get out of your chair. Are you ready? Okay. Name one person (in your head) who agrees with you on everything. Voting rights, LGBT issues, gun control or lack thereof, whistleblowers, minimum wage, women’s rights, health care, taxes, corporations are or are not people, the […]
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Warning: I’m gonna talk U.S. politics. This will be a respectful (other than the title, which is designed to be eye-catching) discussion if anyone cares to discuss. Sources will be required. Name-callers will be banned. It’s my blog and I don’t have to let rude people rant. Want a fair say? Keep it polite. So.
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Yes, civic action is increasingly afflicted by the same perfectionist tendencies that afflict our efforts to live green or to raise healthy, happy, responsible citizens. There’s always some way to do it “better.” So effing what? All we can do is the best we can. That encompasses the fact that our ‘best’ changes from day to day. Today I can type up a blog ranting at anyone who will read to pay attention. Tomorrow maybe the best I’ll manage is a re-tweet to pass the news of something I think people need to see.
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pag·eant·ry /?pæd??ntri/ [paj-uhn-tree] –noun,plural-ries. 1. spectacular display; pomp: the pageantry of a coronation. 2. mere show; empty display. 3. pageants collectively; pageants and the performance of pageants. Guys. Seriously. Glenn Beck? Rush Limbaugh? It’s entertainment. It’s shock-jocks in politics. Like Geraldo and Jerry Springer, they don’t say it because it’s true, they say it to
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[name removed], 45, of Starke, Fla., said she felt compelled to become political for the first time this year because she was upset by government spending. “Our government has lost sight of the powers they were granted,” she said. She added that the deficit spending was out of control, and said she thought it was
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When pictures from Abu Ghraib surfaced, some members of the military were held accountable–or rather, sacrificed as scapegoats. The humiliation and intimidation of those prisoners was rightfully judged a crime, and some of the perpetrators convicted. But others were never charged. Now we know that the actions went far beyond attacks on dignity and comfort.
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No progress on anything. House messier, manuscript stuck, work piling up. Pondering hiding under my bed with my laptop for a week. But here. Have some good news. More broadly, Obama said he was determined to build a new structure for executive oversight that would last beyond his presidency, preempting the problems he currently confronts