I’ve begun writing here and at The Seminal about the sense of boycotting elections. (See the opening installments here, here, and here.) Demofrantics (those who shamelessly toe the party line, no matter how ridiculous it gets), call that throwing the election to our opponents, just as they have since Nader in 2000 (I know, big fuckin’...
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[Note: I've edited this post a little in hopes that now, even an idiot can understand it. Apparently some mistook the quoted matter in the post as Iacocca's actual words. THEY ARE NOT. Which anyone with basic Internet and reading skills might have understood from the original post -  had they bothered to actually read it. C'mon,...
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This is the second of two posts from an early blog of mine, provided now to give some context to my belief that not voting – and counting those non-votes – is the quickest route toward reforming our broken system. This post and the one put up yesterday are further proof that the more...
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Firedoglake’s Eli has a nice post which begs larger questions for progressives; (1) how pure is too pure? and, (2) what can we do to expedite change? Eli’s point that change is painfully incremental is well taken (or, put another way…), and I think most of us would agree his characterization of that incrementalism as “cautious”...
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“Saint Peter don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go I owe my soul to the company store…” -Tennessee Ernie Ford Of all the things the Senate’s health care package doesn’t guarantee, there’s one thing it almost surely does: The further shrinking of the middle class, as employers who had stopped offering health insurance...
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Senator Tom Harkin, a dogged supporter of the public option, lowered himself today on the Bill Press Show (Air America) to grudging acceptance of the ravaged remains that now comprise the Senate health care reform bill. After pep-talking what few changes survive, Harkin – who gleefully declared three weeks ago that the Senate had...
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Think today’s cave-in on health insurance reform by Mr. Change We Can Believe In is bad? Just wait. Here’s what happens next: Obama and Senate Dems claim victory. Brace yourself to hear, again and again, the following boat load of bullshit: “This bill offers comprehensive reform, but is just the first step in incremental...
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How Charlie Rangel can be a role model.
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One of the things I do for fun and profit is write a column on business management. I’ve written it for more than fifteen years, close to 200 columns in all, published monthly in a trade magazine that serves a tiny little sliver of what’s left of American manufacturing: Custom woodworking. I was raised by a tool-and-die...
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