By David Glenn Cox
History moves in fits and starts, traveling stealthily until suddenly it erupts like a volcano and something new is born. Like the pangs of birth, we can see it coming and even more we can feel its presence. After the Supreme Court ruling in the case of Bush vs. Gore, I thought that never in my life I would ever live to see a worse decision than the Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday.
The way in which the media has handled the news of this latest decision is case in (…)
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The Arsenal of Kleptocracy
25 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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My Plastic Penis
5 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
By David Glenn Cox
I spent the New Year’s weekend apartment sitting. Ahh, hot showers and central heat. All the comforts of home, except for a computer. Well, it is only forty-eight hours; I can take it. The two dogs in the apartment, a Chihuahua and a Chihuahua mix, viewed me with great suspicion. They are one-person dogs and I wasn’t him, so they stayed in the bedroom and I in the living room.
My one source of entertainment was a television with plenty of college football. I like (…) -
The Dissolution
26 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
By David Glenn Cox
“Fascism is a political ideology that seeks to combine radical and authoritarian nationalism with a corporatist economic system, and which is usually considered to be on the far right of the traditional left – right political spectrum.
"Fascists advocate the creation of a single party state, with the belief that the majority is unsuited to govern itself through democracy and by reaffirming the benefits of inequality. Fascist governments forbid and suppress openness and (…) -
Failure Is Not an Option, But It Is a Possibility
19 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
By David Glenn Cox
These are dark days to be a Democrat and dark days to be a Republican and even darker days still to believe in democracy. When you state publicly that we live in a corporate oligarchy you are dismissed as naive, denigrated as cynical, or dissed and told, “Well, welcome to the real world.”
As I’ve watched the health care debate roll through Congress I‘ve carried a secret fear of a corporate bait and switch. One good thing added, one bad thing added, one good thing (…) -
Once More Through the Slaughter House
14 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
By David Glenn Cox
There is an expression that says the quickest path to vegetarianism is through the slaughterhouse. It is true that many times we are complacent with things as they are until reality chomps its teeth firmly into our ass.
I feel certain that the thousands of mid-level GM and Chrysler executives recently put out to permanent pasture due to the restructuring were strong proponents of outsourcing. “Why, boss, we can save $1.75 per car by having this part made in China.” I (…) -
Is the President Overworked?
8 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
By David Glenn Cox
There is an old Firesign Theatre comedy piece, a parody of “The Price is Right,” where a woman contestant is asked, “Do you want what’s behind the door or what’s in the bag?”
She blurts out, “I’ll take the bag! Why… why this is a bag of shit!”
“Yes” the announcer answers, “but it’s really great shit!”
Two years ago CNBC, America’s first name in fascism, sent cutie pie Erin "Black Widow" Burnett to Dubai for live, on-sight interviews with all the movers and shakers (…) -
2012, Agree to Agree
16 November 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
By David Glenn Cox
Much has been made of the Mayan calendar ending in 2012, the next Y2K. Anyone remember what happened on Y1K? Christians and just plain Joes gathered on hilltops with their arms raised and swaying in a religious rapture waiting for Jesus to come and save them. For those of you who missed it, he didn’t show.
No one bothered to tell these people that the dates on calendars are somewhat arbitrary affairs. The year one thousand had no relevance to the Jewish calendar, much (…) -
No Ordinary Utensil
14 November 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
By David Glenn Cox
I don’t think that there is any spectacle quite so moving or so sad than to see someone’s possessions stacked in the yard in front of what used to be their home. It is odd, not just our own connection with our belongings, but our belongings’ connections to us as well.
What once was a living room chair or kitchen chair, where we relaxed and contemplated life or ate our meals, then becomes lawn debris left over from a silent, slow-moving, invisible storm that drowns some (…) -
The Next Lost War
18 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
By David Glenn Cox
Never has Colin Powell’s Pottery Barn analogy been more apt than in the next lost war, Pakistan. In our quest to strike down radical Islam, we have done so like an angry housewife chasing a mouse with a broom, and in the process done more damage with the broom than the mouse ever could.
I recently listened to Ray McGovern speak about Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the third rail of American foreign policy, Israel. McGovern, a life long security analyst for the (…) -
Death by Work
15 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
By David Glenn Cox
The Bible observes that the wages of sin are death, but what then are the wages of virtue? What are the wages of work? As average Americans’ wages fall and our economy collapses in on itself, Wall Street flourishes as foreign investors move in to take advantage of the weak dollar. It was Mark Twain who noted that “God knows when even the sparrow falls. That’s wonderful that he knows that, but what does that matter if the sparrow still falls.”
In France the government (…)