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• The Obies! My Favorite Awards of the Year…

  

  The Village Voice has announced this year’s off-Broadway awards… the Obies … for the past year. And here they are:Best New American Play, which is accompanied b... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2012 SOCIETY

• Take the Tax Fairness Pledge…

  

  If you filed on April 15th and want to find out how much you saved in your taxes, you can go to FairEconomy.org and take the Tax Fairness Pledge”… something... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2012 SOCIETY

• Here’s Your Chance to Get a World Famous Artwork… Got $80,000,000? by Jona...

  

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  Posted on 21 May 2012 SOCIETY

• More Proof That Romney Supports Job Losses…

  

  Mitt Romney supports Meg Whitman in the California gubernatorial race against Jerry Brown. Unfortunately for him it comes at a really bad time when he is... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2012 SOCIETY

• Quote from the Looney Bin..er…the Religious Insane:

  

  I wonder why he’s no longer a Navy Chaplain.Former navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, founder of the lobbying group Pray In Jesus Name Project, appeared on a... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2012 SOCIETY

• Robin Gibb Dies at Age 62…

  

  Robin Gibb, Bee Gees singer has died.Following the recent death of Donna Summer, another defining voice of the disco era, Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees, has... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• A Democrat and a Republican Want the Supreme Court to Revisit “Citizens United”

  

  This Press Release went out from Senator Whitehouse’s office on Friday:U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and John McCain (R-AZ) today filed an amicus brie... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2012 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Cartoon(s) of the Week – Fun with the Economy

  

  Ben Sargent in the Austin American-Statesman:Some people can’t wait for Bush’s book on Economics to come out…- and -Jeff Daniziger in the L. A. Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2012 SOCIETY

• How Do We Deal with American Illiteracy?

  

  Perhaps you are disturbed, as I am, that there are large numbers of Americans appearing in this political season who cannot interpret either the needs of the... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2012 SOCIETY

• The TED Talk They Tried to Keep off the Net… by Benjamin Wallace on the Price...

  Young multi-millionaire Nick Hanauer gave a TED Talk that the TED folks originally refused to put up (not like them). Hanauer persisted and it is now up. Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2012 SOCIETY

• Hard To Believe Dept. – Where Economic Strategies Come From

  

  Former President George W. Bush is writing a book on—wait for it—strategies for economic growth.Yeah, that George W. Bush.The one who ate up our budget surplus... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2012 SOCIETY

• The Real War on Coal

  

  My friend Sean O’Leary wrote this well researched op-ed in the Martinsburg Journal, and I reproduce it here in its entirety… maybe now we can get Bob Manchin of... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2012 SOCIETY

• Romney’s Attitudes About Gays Pops up Again…

  

  Romney Campaign Refuses To Weigh In On Virginia’s Rejection Of Gay Judicial Nominee - From Huffington Post Tracy Thorne-Beglen On Wednesday, the Romney... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2012 SOCIETY

• Revealing Quote for the Day – It’s All in the Eyes…

  

  James Lipton “In this media-saturated era, the line between politics and performance has virtually vanished, and the public is having a hard time believing Mr.... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2012 SOCIETY

• Putting Together My Saturday Radio Show While I Watch Grimm…

  

  I don’t know why I watch Grimm… the stories are, well, stupid. The acting is single level at best. The special effects are now getting boring (seeing these... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• If Romney Ever Told the Truth We Could All Go Back to Bed…

  

  From Bob Cesca in The Daily Banter:A couple of months ago in Arizona, Mitt Romney attacked the president on this topic with a whopper lie: “He said he’d cut... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2012 SOCIETY

• Over at Mellow Moods Having Coffee After the Show…

  

  Not a bad show on WSHC this morning… a lot of song request challenges (and I found all of them) from my regulars and nothing went wrong with the equipment (Ta... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2012 SOCIETY

• I’m Not Happy with the World…

  

  …but I can’t do anything about it on a scale that would change anything. Listening to politicians on the morning news babble at each other that they will not... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2012 SOCIETY

• Right Wing Now Saying Obama is Gay…

  

  The Family Research Institute‘s Paul Cameron, really angry about President Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage, denounced Obama’s stance on Crosstalk with... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2012 SOCIETY

• We Must Out-fund Monsanto’s Lobbyists (or Die Eating Our Unlabeled Veggies!)

  

  Volunteers across California are making history. On May 2nd, the California Right to Know campaign turned in nearly 1 million signatures to place a ballot... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2012 SOCIETY