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• Stubborn Right Wing Keeps Winning (dammit)

  It's so frustrating, seeing people and groups cave to Republicans' and the Right Wing's tactics, time and again. Yesterday, at The New York Times, I saw yet... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Happy Birthday William S Burroughs

  

  This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Need Or Want Proof "Obamacare" is Working?

  Read it and weep, Republicans, Right Wingers and haters out there. For the rest of us, it's a relief and the beginning of good things:Top-Ranked Hospital Cuts... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2014 SOCIETY

• The Stupid out of Missouri's State Capitol One Month in

  From Progress Missouri today:We’re not even one month into the 2014 legislative session and they’ve already filed attacks on the middle class that would lower... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2014 SOCIETY

• A Challenge to the Star

  Down in little old Springfield, Missouri, the local paper, the Springfield News-Leader, has come out swinging in the newspaper wars with a just-announced plan... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2014 SOCIETY

• They're Coming Back!!!

  From Chris Thile's Facebook page this evening:Chris ThileWE’RE (as they say) GETTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER, Y’ALL!!! A record, a tour… http://nickelcreek. Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Final Continental Drought Here: Australia

  So we've seen there's widespread drought in China, Iran, here in North America here, as I've posted. There is also a very widespread, devastating, years long... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Missouri Government Gone off the Rails

  

  Seriously, the severely Right Wing Republicans in Jeff City seem to have lost it. They keep creating reasons for national headlines like this, I saw this... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Closer to Home: The California and Texas Droughts

  I posted, this last week, on a lake twice the size of London that's gone dry and one in Iran that likewise dried up. So, here, then, are charts and pictures of... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Questions for Missouri Representative Billy Long

  

  Having seen this from Missouri blogger The Turner Report:Contributors buy $40000 in meals for Billy Long in 2013It begs the question--how do you take and eat... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Kansas Republicans Working to Keep Their State in the Last Century

  I was stunned by the headline I saw yesterday:Kansas moves to stop broadband Internet to residentsIt seems Kansas is--or was--about to advance to the 21st... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Capitalism Vs. Socialism

  I got yer ugly, crazy Socialism right here:5 Ways Norway Is Better Than Your CountryAccess To Higher Education Is FreeNorway Invests In Its CitizensProgressive... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Kicking off Black History Month: Here Comes (back Around) the Hate

  So here we are, February 1, 2014. The start of another Black History month. Good. We need this.The nation needs it. God knows the white people, in their own... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2014 SOCIETY

• First China Loses a Lake, Now Iran

  

  As reported here a couple days ago, China recently had a lake--twice the size of London--dry up, now it's Iran:Its Great Lake Shriveled, Iran Confronts Crisis o... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Quote of the Day---and He's Right, of Course

  

  Why we need to overturn the "Citizens United" decision.Why we need to end campaign contributions.Why we need to get the big, ugly, corrupting influence of the... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Things Wal-mart Control Or Will One Day Control

  

  Things Wal-mart control already or will, one day soon, control here in the US:--Retail sales for cheap, commodity crap--Cell phone business. The cheap cell phon... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Republicans Working for All Americans? For the Working Class? For Middle- and...

  Here’s a list of just some of the bills that Republicans have blocked or attempted to block, since President Obama became President:- Tax on Companies that... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014 SOCIETY

• No Climate Change, You Say?

  

  Nothing to be concerned about?How about this, then?China's largest freshwater lake that is twice the size of London, dries upThe largest freshwater lake in Chin... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014 SOCIETY

• A History Lesson on Executive Orders

  

  It gets so tiresome. All the calls for this president to be---I saw it yesterday---"empeached." It's so ridiculous.He's a Constitutional scholar, for pity's... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Yesterday's Important Anniversary

  

  Yesterday in 1945, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated by the Russian army. The Nazis had abandoned the camp 10 days earlier, forcing most o... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2014 SOCIETY