A letter of Thanksgiving to my activist friends...

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Wednesday November 26, 2014 · 8:04 PM PST

2014/11/26 · 20:04

Friends-

Last night I came into Manhattan after ending my class a little early at the university. My students were tired before the Thanksgiving break, drained from anxiety over the final, and half of them were sick and coughing. I was tired too. I checked my phone when I got in my car and saw posts from activist friends who were taking part in the demonstrations in NYC last night in solidarity with Mike Brown and the people of Ferguson...

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Monday September 07, 2009 · 11:38 PM PDT

2009/09/07 · 23:38

An elementary school in North Carolina adds it's name to the list of schools refusing to carry the President's address to school children today. But there's something odd about their choice of heroes displayed on their school's marquee...

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Saturday June 27, 2009 · 1:58 PM PDT

2009/06/27 · 13:58

The jury is not still out on Jacko's guilt or innocence when it comes to child molestation. The facts below should put to rest any doubt that this man endangered the lives of children, including his own. Why then is America, and the world, acting as if he was merely an eccentric genius, as opposed to a child predator with multiple victims?

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Saturday July 26, 2008 · 2:36 PM PDT

2008/07/26 · 14:36

What does Obama have to do to alienate the liberals walking lockstep behind him as he catapults, not veers, directly to the right? The floating of the GOP's own Ann Veneman as a possible VP choice is disturbing. Her tenure as George W.'s Secretary of Agriculture raises some serious questions that she put blind adherence to powerful corporate lobby interests over the health and safety of all Americans...

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Friday July 04, 2008 · 12:19 PM PDT

2008/07/04 · 12:19

This just in: Jesse Helms making himself right at home in his new room in HELL!

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Friday February 08, 2008 · 9:49 AM PST

2008/02/08 · 09:49

As a dreary economic forecast ripples throughout the marketplace, Chrysler LLC has decided to cut its product line and cut the number of dealerships by 1/3. Chrysler refers to this as their "Dealer Optimization Plan". I'm wondering how "optimized" the thousands of salesmen, mechanics, and clerical staff are going to feel all the way to the unemployment line.

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Friday November 16, 2007 · 10:08 AM PST

2007/11/16 · 10:08

Yup. It's true. 20 percent of NYU students polled said they would actually sell their right to vote in the next presidential election for..... an iPod Touch! As soon as I heard this, I knew I had to write about it. I'm just not sure where to start. The poll almost speaks for itself.

www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/6892.html

I'm sure there are different ways of looking at this. Does this reflect a consumeristic generation's apathy when it comes to their participation in the political system? (yes!) Or, as some of those surveyed said, a lack of candidates that generate excitement or interest in the electoral process (kind of but not really).

And that's not all the respondents said. Two Thirds said they would sell their 2008 vote for full tuition to NYU, and a precentage also agreed that for $1,000,000 they would forfeit all future rights to voting in any election, ever. Wow, think of how many iPods you could buy with THAT kind of money!

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Sunday November 11, 2007 · 8:30 AM PST

2007/11/11 · 08:30

How multi-million dollar golden parachutes and exit deals reflect the failure of corporate capitalism or... with a disparity of wealth like this, who needs a depression?
There's something rotten in America. It's not new, it's actually been going on for a long time. It's just worse now than ever. I'm not talking about the ignorance of the electorate (41% of Americans surveyed cannot name one candidate running for the GOP presidential nomination, or the poisoning of the food supply (35 major food recalls this year alone, including those for listeria, e.coli, and botulism), although eating disease ridden food and not knowing the names of who's running for office may be directly related to what I am talking about... which is, the disparity of wealth in america, specifically, the obscenely high exit packages given corporate executives, especialy those who FAILED MISERABLY running companies, compared with what average American familes make.

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Saturday November 10, 2007 · 7:53 AM PST

2007/11/10 · 07:53

Or, what I do when I get up at 5 am and can't get back to sleep-

I probably shouldn't be writing this. I wish I could just keep this all a secret. But I can't. I have to tell this story. Not because I am concerned about the public discourse, and the integrity of political process, but because it's just so god damned funny.

One day last week I woke up at 5am. Don't ask me why. There was no good reason. I don't have to be at work on most days until 9, and its only a 45 min drive when it's not raining, and it wasn't raining that day. Point is, there was no reason to be up at 5am. But I was, and once I was, there was no falling back asleep. So, I put on CNN. I'm a news junkie. I can change, I promise. If I marry someone who isn't , I will probably be sneaking off to watch the news in the basement when no ones looking. Like a porn addict. But instead of Debbie Does Dallas, I'd be watching Countdown with Keith Obermann (Anthony, are you ok down there? Yes, honey). I'd actually prefer to marry someone who knows who Keith Olbermann is and wants to watch him with me, but that's another story... anyway...

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