The Fetishizing of Wealth

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Monday June 18, 2012 · 10:52 PM PDT

2012/06/18 · 22:52

Currently there is an immensely successful book creating a phenomena across the nation called "50 Shades of Gray" that literally, not metaphorically fetishes wealth. In it a young woman gives herself over to the Sadomasochistic fantasies of a wealthy millionaire in return for his largesse and attention. This is not merely a passing cultural phenomena, it as an expression of the continuing American zeitgeist which is playing itself out in Presidential politics.

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Tuesday March 18, 2008 · 10:18 PM PDT

2008/03/18 · 22:18

I am a teacher. I teach drama. Many of my students are African American. I honestly enjoy teaching them and I enjoy sharing in a perspective that they share in class that is different from my own. I also have to admit that I was trained in one of the most esteemed Drama schools in the 80's that had a very African American emphasis at the time I attended. I saw class mates go to Broadway and receive opportunities I could only dream about based on yes, their talent, but also their race and the opportunities that presented themselves. Today I am at peace. Barack Obama said to me that it is okay for someone who has supported equal opportunity in every segment of the workplace to feel uncomfortable with the fact that his very whiteness seemed to be in some strange way an impediment. He also gave me vast insight into the experience of my collaborators and students feel on an everyday basis. I realized today that we are working this out. Every day in my classes I am working this out. I understand that there is a void in experience and understanding and in a profession when so much of success is determined by luck and opportunity I see a little clearer. He gave me a gift.

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Friday March 14, 2008 · 12:18 AM PDT

2008/03/14 · 00:18

Okay, enough of this parsing of Geraldine Ferraro's statements. He is who he is. I was fine with a Hillary presidency if she proved she could pull enough coalitions together to actually win. I really was. But when I heard him speak I felt proud and alive with the possibility of an invigorated democracy. Like many Americans who heard the 2004 keynote address, I felt that okay, you talk a good game but you have to show me that you can deliver over the length of the nomination process. Well, he has. He has taken hits and disappointing finishes and he keeps rebounding and focussing on the ultimate goal. He is a once in a lifetime politician.

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Wednesday March 12, 2008 · 12:14 AM PDT

2008/03/12 · 00:14

Watching MSNBC tonight, I saw Tim Russert, not exactly the bastion of reason, make a good and ominous point. Any analysis of the general election that predicts a win for the Democrats counts on a strong African American Turnout. Tonight that bridge was burned for Hillary Clinton.

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Saturday March 08, 2008 · 1:53 PM PST

2008/03/08 · 13:53

Listening to Newshour yesterday, I heard Mark Shields propose something I had not heard mentioned before, splitting the Michigan/Florida delegates 50/50 between Clinton and Obama. I'm not the best at math, but as I'll show below, that along with a number of other apportioning scenarios would be a death blow to her campaign.

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Friday March 07, 2008 · 12:40 AM PST

2008/03/07 · 00:40

There is a deep respect and sentimental attachment for the Clintons within Democrats and it is not misplaced. In very dark times, they gave us reason to hope and believe. But the times have changed.

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Friday February 15, 2008 · 3:38 PM PST

2008/02/15 · 15:38

Yes, Obama supporters are koolaid drinking cult members because they don't face facts and accept reality.

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Monday October 01, 2007 · 12:29 AM PDT

2007/10/01 · 00:29

After reading Seymour Hersh's latest New Yorker piece, what I've been fearing for several months seems inevitable, WE ARE GOING TO ATTACK IRAN. Can we please start marshalling all of our activities against this in a way that we didn't do against the disaster that is Iraq?

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Wednesday August 29, 2007 · 1:06 PM PDT

2007/08/29 · 13:06

If you thought Katrina, the attorney generals purge, social security reform, and the Iraq war were the high water mark for adiminsistration idiocy and incompetence, here's a little tease for what may be their greatest opportunity yet to flush our standing as a nation down the toilet. We all know that Bush the blowhard as a salesman is not all that effective. There was Social Security privitization...thud, Immigration reform...(crickets).
But clearly his thinking is playing to his strength; selling a war. He's trying to get his mojo back by talking tough and potentially killing hundreds of thousands of people. Here's the first tip off of how we're already working to get this one right...

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Sunday July 30, 2006 · 10:53 AM PDT

2006/07/30 · 10:53

After the Supreme Court decided it was just too hard on everbody not knowing the outcome of the 2000 election and handed it to George Bush, the media and much of the population anticipated a concilliatory administration, lots of cross-the-aisle appointments and bipartisan gestures. What the country got was the Republican version of the spoil system: "We won, we get to do whatever we want and screw the opposition". It's easy to forget now, but this did not go over well with the public. Early in his administration, Bush never came close to cracking 50% in the polls. As we know, 9/11 gave the administration the mandate it never achieved electorally and it used it to bitchslap the Democrats in the midterms. As the wrongheadedness of the administration's policies became apparent in 2004, the Republicans again turned to the playbook; crunch the numbers, find the base that will swing important districts, swiftboat, and suppress oppositions' turnout. When the strategy produced one of the slimmest of victories in presidential elections, once again they governed as if they had achieved a broad mandate. Read More

ABC Reporting that Zoukari is dead

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Wednesday June 07, 2006 · 11:59 PM PDT

2006/06/07 · 23:59

Just caught a special report saying that Zoukari (pardon spelling) was killed in a raid in Iraq. Don't know what this will mean in the long run. The MSM has been pitching that he is the mastermind behind every roadside bombing and countless murders and kidnappings. I guess only time will tell. Will this be seen as a tipping point in the war on terrorism? I doubt it. But much is left to be revealed. If the carnage is reduced in the next few weeks, I would say yes, this is big. Otherwise, it calls into question his role as mastermind.

I Got Your Wedge Right Here

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Monday June 05, 2006 · 3:10 PM PDT

2006/06/05 · 15:10

This is a simple frame that should be shouted loud and trumpeted everywhere.
"The extreme elements of the Republican party are seeking to criminalize homosexuality and deny Constitutional rights and protections to Americans on the basis of their sexuality." We need to make this charge in extremis so that they have to deny it. I want them to say, "no, really, we don't hate gays". Then maybe the wingnut/religiofascists will ignore them at the polls. I want Mary Cheney showing up on talk shows and her daddy saying how proud he is of his gay daughter. Don't be timid. Make the charge big and bold. "Why do Republicans despise the homosexual minority in this country?" Do most Americans even know that in over 30 states it is legal to fire someone based on their sexual preference? If they want wedge, we got it. Don't let them brand it as "values", let's make them deny that it is "hate".

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