This is for all you techies and hackers out there. As I said last time, the fate of the world may be in your hands, and I’m not joking. The fact that you are reading this, perhaps passed on from a progressive friend even though your politics may be quite different from his or hers or mine, or even non-existent, makes my first point. I don’t have to tell you, of all people, what an enormously powerful tool the internet is, or that (my second point) there are powerful forces gathering to (...)
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Online Sex and Other Dreams
27 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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Video: Medicare for All: A Sidewalk Summit, Lafayette Park, North
26 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
On Thursday morning, Feb. 25, 2010, a sidewalk summit advocating “Medicare for All,” was staged in Washington, D.C., at Lafayette Park, North, not far from the White House. Here are some sights and scenes from that spirited event. For background, see: http://www.healthcare-now.org/
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Audio: Ed Norris, Ex-Baltimore City Police Commissioner: “Legalize Drugs!”
25 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Ed Norris is the former Police Commissioner for Baltimore City. He said our drug policy doesn’t work. Norris urged ‘legalizing” all drugs. He said prohibition doesn’t work. Norris said: “As long as it is illegal, they’re [the drugs], going to be in demand...They’re not killing each other for the drugs. They’re killing each other for the money. And, that’s the problem... You can’t legislate morality.” The ex-Mayor of Baltimore, Sheila Dixon also participated in the exchange of views. (...)
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The unstated script of the Wiesel open letter to Obama
24 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsBy William A. Cook
February 23, 2010 "Information Clearing House" — Earlier this month, the Wiesel Foundation for Humanity published, as an advertisement, an open letter to the President of the United States and the leaders of France, Russia, Britain and Germany, a letter carried by the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. The issue eliciting the need for such a public letter, essentially a letter written to the world, stood boldly as a heading: “How Long Can We Stand (...) -
Video: Author Taylor Branch on Healthcare Reform
22 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
On Monday, Feb. 22, 2010, the Pulizter Prize winning author Taylor Branch, spoke in Baltimore, MD. He talked about the necessity of Healthcare Reform in the U.S. Mr. Taylor drew some parallels with this current struggle for social justice and with the heroic battle for Civil Rights in America, under the leadership of the legendary Martin Luther King, Jr. Mr. Taylor is a noted biographer of MLK. See: http://taylorbranch.com/ The event was held at the Church of the Redeemer in Baltimore. It (...)
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“This Dream Called Death,” a novelzine, by Stephen Janis
22 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
[Publisher, Novelzine, 2010,164 pp., soft cover, $15.99]
Baltimore, MD — Stephen Janis is an awarding-winning investigative reporter. The urban crime scene is his beat. His engrossing, surreal novel, “This Dream Called Death,” is his second book.
The fast-paced story is set in the decaying, crime-saturated and once-highly industrialized, “City of Balaise.” It’s a look into a grim, but maybe a not-too-distant future, where your worst fears of an ultra-controlling “Homeland (...) -
Why Republicans Make Things Up
21 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy David Glenn Cox
It has long been offered that politics is the art of telling your constituents to go to hell and then convincing them that they really want to go. It’s the art of convincing them that what they think is good for them really isn’t. Sometimes it’s a promise to make the sunshine brighter or the rain fall on command.
When you ran for office as a Democrat in the good old days you could promise new and better schools, highways and more jobs. It was a pretty easy task as (...) -
Video: John Yoo’ Speech Disrupted at Johns Hopkins University
18 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
On Wed. evening, Feb. 17, 2010, John Yoo gave a talk on the campus of the Johns Hopkins U., in Baltimore, Md. Before the controversial law professor could get into his talk, however, it was interrupted by two activists. They stood to his right in front of the auditorium and held a banner, which read: “Try Yoo for Torture!” The protesters refused to sit down, but they were not arrested and remained in the same position during Yoo’s entire speech. Yoo had served in the administration of the (...)
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Video: Healthcare Not Warfare Activists Hold Vigil in Baltimore
17 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
Baltimore’s “Pledge of Resistance,” led by activist Max Obuszewski, joined the call today from the “Progressive Democrats of America to hold Brown Bag Vigils around the country” to spotlight the issue of healthcare not warfare. The vigil took place on a snowbound street , on Wed., Feb. 17, 2010, in front of 1010 Park Ave., where one of the offices of Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-7th-MD) is located. After the vigil, which started at noon, the activists met, at 12:30 PM, with an aide to the (...)
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RECENT THOUGHTS ON SARAH PALIN AND THE TEA PARTY
16 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentPALIN AND CRIB NOTES ON HER PALM - HARDLY A BIG POINT BECAUSE SHE HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO SAY WITH OR WITHOUT NOTES
POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
The problem certainly is not the crib notes on Sarah Palin’s palm, although it makes a funny anecdote after her blubbering about teleprompters.
The problem is that Sarah Palin has absolutely nothing to say, with or without notes.
Almost every word that comes from her mouth is completely predictable. And all of it is (...)