Musings on Presidential Campaign 2008
Unbelievable as it may seem I am taking a minute off from writing a book review of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Look for it here soon, I know you are waiting...
View ArticleOf Political Correctness and Journalistic Hysteria
Here is one time liberals and radicals can agree, at least partially.
View ArticleJack and Abby- America's First Political Power Couple
While we take a well deserved break from the tedium of the 'real' presidential campaign here is a little look down memory lane to another 'first couple'.
View ArticlePoll-Class of 1964-Brenda Lee or Patsy Cline
Over the past several weeks I have been answering some questions posed to me by a member of my high school class committee. I, innocently, believed that I was helping her out after she had helped me...
View ArticleA Short, A Very Short Note On The 5th Anniversary of The Iraq War
Read this entry and weep-then organize like crazy.
View ArticleMarch 17th or Easter, 1916
Here is a little slice of life story that might get you thinking about your owm heritage.
View ArticleOnce Again, A Short Note on Iraq-"Cut and Run Now"
Yes, I know that the etiquette of the Daily Kos is to wait until you have three paragraphs to write about. Well, frankly, I do not need that many paragraphs to tell this story. I hope that by now I am...
View ArticleHistroy and Class Consciousness- A Working Class Saga
This saga began life almost a year ago as a short, supposedly one time, commentary about a childhood friend from my old working class neighborhood who I found out had passed away several years ago in a...
View ArticleRace Matters-The Pennant Race
I will take out at least the amount of time that it takes to post this entry in order to prove that there is actually life beyond politics. This is a respond to a question from that I received from my...
View ArticleA Crockah Petreaus in the Morning-and the Afternoon Too!, Part II
Has anyone noticed that those of us opposed to the Iraq occupation have had less and less need to write long screeds about the in and outs of the politics of our opposition. Nevertheless, we are...
View ArticleHold Their Feet To The Fire
In light of the latest Congressional hearings from Central Casting-General Petreaus and Ambassador Crockah I went back to my blog archives for 2006 and found this little 'gem' concerning the tasks for...
View ArticleBook Review- Vietnam Redux?
This is a repost of an entry from last year. With the recent Congressional hearings on the situation in Iraq involving today's General Westmorland-General Petreaus-and today's Ambassador...
View ArticleTear Down That Wall
As we approach the 2nd Anniversary of the great immigrant-led demonstrations of May 2006 a little look back at a solution that I proposed then and continue to propose is in order.
View ArticleTales From The 'Hood- An Introduction
With all the 'controversy' surrounding Senator Obama's comments about the working poor and their illusions and seeming 'false consciousness' meaning for him (and Senator Clinton, as well)- failure to...
View ArticleTales From The 'Hood- A Story of Two Peninsulas
My original intention in posting this series of stories on this site was made independently of the recent 'furor' over the manners and mores of the working poor who seem to vote against their rational...
View ArticleTales From The 'Hood- "The Romance of The Gun"
With all the recent talk about the poor and guns here is a little different twist on the subject. Yes, read it but do not expect the Democrats (to speak nothing of the Republicans) to have any way to...
View ArticleTales From The 'Hood- A Piece of Cloth
Here is a bittersweet tale that gives flesh and blood to the abstract controversy whirling around the Democratic party presidential nomination process. This is where the struggle is. Wherever...
View ArticleTales from The 'Hood- Growing Up Absurd and the Endless Road?
These are the final stories of a short series of stories about growing up in the 1950’s, the childhood period of the generation of ’68 and of my own. This series got its start as a spin-off from a...
View ArticleThe Battered, Tattered Generation of '68- Hands Off Professors Bill Ayers and...
There is currently a tempest in a teapot swirling around Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama concerning his relationship with former Weatherpeople Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn. Here are a...
View ArticleMay Day 2008-Honor The Haymarket Martyrs
This is a repost of last year's (and 2006's) commentary in honor of our international working class holiday. I would add that the comments made then still apply today. I would further add that these...
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