Of Muslims, Mosques and Morons

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Sometimes I won­der if the lead­er­ship of the Democratic Party isn’t infested with Republican moles (cue the cries from the false – equiv­a­lency brigade that all politi­cians are hor­ri­ble). If not, then they cer­tainly epit­o­mize the words of wis­dom offered by the ven­er­a­ble Dark Helmet, “Evil will always win, because Good is stupid.”


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The Empathic Civilization

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Another nifty ani­ma­tion from The Royal Society for the encour­age­ment of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce — this one illus­trat­ing a talk by Jeremy Rifkin, author of the Empathic Civilization. I haven’t read this yet, but I just added it to my iBooks queue.

Suck It Honkeys

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MSNBC (amongst oth­ers) is report­ing that, pretty much as expected, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton has issued an injunc­tion block­ing the most heinous and con­sti­tu­tion­ally bogus pro­vi­sions of Arizona SB 1070. While this is good news from the per­spec­tive of jus­tice, we need to be clear on a few things. First, this is only a tem­po­rary injunc­tion until the final court deci­sions are made.


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Be Happy or Else

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I’ve rec­om­mended Barbara Ehrenreich’s cri­tique of “pos­i­tive think­ing” Bright-sided in var­i­ous venues before. I heartily recomend that every­one read the book. As a teaser, here is a short ani­ma­tion of a lec­ture by Ms. Ehrenreich based on the book. It’s funny, and absolutely true.

The Real Reason for AZ SB 1070

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I’ve been say­ing all along that AZ SB 1070 was never about actu­ally deal­ing with undoc­u­mented immi­gra­tion, or even racism for racism’s sake. Instead it’s noth­ing more than a trans­par­ent ploy by the GOP to rally the racists in Arizona for the next elec­tion. Here’s some proof to back up my thesis.


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Alan Grayson Channels President Eisenhower

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Stuperintentent of Public Instruction

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Like they say, all pol­i­tics are local, so here is a won­der­ful slice of Arizona pol­i­tics via Think Progress. The long and short of it is that the Republican can­di­date for Arizona’s Superintendent of Public Instruction John “who needs to actu­ally fund edu­ca­tion” Huppenthal was, him­self, schooled when a high school stu­dent con­fronted him about his abysmal record regard­ing fund­ing education.

Like a typ­i­cal GOP tool, when faced with the truth Huppenthal ran off in a huff and declared that he was being “punked” by Democratic dirty tricks. I sup­pose that this just demon­strates that Arizona doesn’t just hate the bean­ers. It hates an edu­cated pop­u­lous too.

Boycott This!

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This is a dif­fi­cult post to write. On the one hand, I vehe­mently oppose Arizona Senate Bill 1070; the so-called “immi­gra­tion law.” The law is noth­ing more than a patently trans­par­ent attempt by the right-wing to whip up sup­port amongst the racists here in order to make gains in this year’s elec­tions. It’s the Southern Strategy for a new cen­tury. On the other hand, I’m bemused by the spate of groups who have taken it upon them­selves to pun­ish Arizona by boy­cotting or can­cel­ing events here. Take, for exam­ple, the recent deci­sion by Hall and Oates to can­cel their Arizona dates as part of a “Sound Strike”.


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Glen Beck’s Nazi Tourette’s

I do so love Lewis Black.


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Definitions

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ter­ror­ism

ter-ror-ism

–noun

the use of vio­lence and threats to intim­i­date or coerce, esp. for polit­i­cal purposes.

Example

Maybe we shouldn’t be so quick to close Gitmo after all.

the use of vio­lence and threats to intim­i­date or coerce, esp. for polit­i­cal purposes.