"We need to fight back against corporatism!" OK, sure. How?

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Monday April 26, 2010 · 4:10 PM PDT

2010/04/26 · 16:10

I was recently asked about my anti-corporatism stance (actually, it's more of an "anti-corporate-personhood" stance, as I have no problem whatsoever with corporations per se, just with them being granted the rights of human beings when they have none of the limitations). In response to a statement I had made, "...the corporate monstrosities we've allowed to be created must be dismantled", I received the following response:

"How?"

Good question.

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Monday February 15, 2010 · 9:33 PM PST

2010/02/15 · 21:33

I've been saying ever since the so-called "Clintonista" vs. "Obamabot" wars broke out during the last election (with only a barely-maintained cease-fire in place to this day) that everyone... and I mean everyone... to the left of Lincoln Chafee needs to quit acting like a bunch of testosterone-filled alley cats and work together on issues that we can agree on. Instead, we continue to splinter further and further over minute details while the right-wing gets more and more consolidated and of one voice.

So when we hare off into diffuse groups with narrow agendas and spend our time fuming at all of the other groups, calling them "ignorant" or saying "they just don't get it", it's not they that don't get it.

It's all of us. And we no longer have the luxury of squabbling.

(More after the fold...)

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Thursday February 11, 2010 · 3:58 PM PST

2010/02/11 · 15:58

The United States military budget, just taking into account figures going back to 2002 (before the Iraq War), made up 45% of the entire WORLD'S military expenditures. Represented in cartographic form (mapped according to the proportion of military spending per nation) our world looks something like this:

More after the fold:

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Wednesday January 27, 2010 · 11:19 AM PST

2010/01/27 · 11:19

I'm not joining in the circular firing squad just yet. I was very, very disappointed at Rachel Maddow's handling of Jared Bernstein on Monday's show, and her Tuesday show was no better. As I said in a previous post, Bernstein, who kept trying to explain the economic proposal to be highlighted in the State of the Union address, was repeatedly cut off by Rachel. And no matter what he said, she kept going back to her original "OMG it's Hooverism!". We lost a good opportunity to hear about what's actually going to be proposed, rather than what we all imagine it will be, and that's sorely disappointing.

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Monday January 25, 2010 · 11:38 PM PST

2010/01/25 · 23:38

I had to record the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, and so I'm late commenting on her Monday show. And I'm sad to say my comments aren't as glowing as they normally would have been. I love her just tons and tons, but I have to say she jumped the shark on the interview with Jared Bernstein at the top of the hour regarding President Obama's announcement of spending freezes (the details of which we still don't know, I might add).

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Friday January 22, 2010 · 12:27 AM PST

2010/01/22 · 00:27

In response to the January 21, 2010 decision by the Supreme Court to abolish campaign finance limits by corporations, I created this image. Feel free to copy and share as you like. More below the fold:

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Friday January 15, 2010 · 9:27 PM PST

2010/01/15 · 21:27

I keep hearing reports of people in Port-au-Prince and elsewhere getting frustrated because they see no signs of aid coming (mostly because help can't get through to them yet); it seems like a good idea for teams of helicopters with loudspeakers to flyover the city constantly broadcasting messages that help is on the way, and where to go for help. Some reports have indicated that people have died just blocks away from groups of aid workers simply because they didn't know they were there.

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Tuesday January 12, 2010 · 5:37 PM PST

2010/01/12 · 17:37

A Progressive Revolution. I admit it's an enticing thought; we NEED some kind of non-violent, progressive revolution in this country to return power to the electorate instead of the monied interests and career politicians. However, as JFK said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable", and we are increasingly finding it difficult to effect revolutionary change through peaceful means with corporations and their paid puppets running just about every level of national government, including voting. The system is rigged, those who rigged the system are in charge, and many people on the left are feeling as though we had better get our groove on fast or we'll lose the whole thing. I tend to agree with this position, but it seems that many want to take it further: they consider the system too broken to fix, and want to bypass efforts to work with what is left of it and just start a real-live revolution... "Damn the torpedos!" style.

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Tuesday December 29, 2009 · 3:08 PM PST

2009/12/29 · 15:08

I for one am seeing a complete paradigm shift in American thinking, something unfolding, unknown in our history. It's not about what the politicians have done, or even the corporations. It's what we've done to ourselves. We have voluntarily and even aggressively sought to become a nation of sheeple.

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Tuesday December 22, 2009 · 6:27 PM PST

2009/12/22 · 18:27

Warning: My apologies to my vegan and vegetarian friends; stop reading now and move along, nothing to see here! Also, there is absolutely no chance that the American Heart Association would endorse this recipe. Please have paramedics standing by before consumption.

I've been making this recipe for years around the holidays, and it's usually a big hit; my family considers me the "creamed onions" guy, and though I have a lot of other great holiday recipes, this one seems to be my specialty. As a number of folks have asked me "what's this creamed onions stuff you talk about", I thought I'd share my recipe with the world. Please consume at your own risk, and may whatever God or gods are out there have forgiveness on my soul.

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Thursday November 19, 2009 · 6:52 PM PST

2009/11/19 · 18:52

I had a very interesting discussion on Facebook last night that I thought perhaps I would open up to a wider audience. The topic of gay marriage is always sure to bring lively debate, and one of the issues that continually comes up is "why not just call it something else, like ‘civil union’, to avoid the religious connotations; after all, what does it matter what you call it?"

This of course has been brought up and argued back and forth numerous times in the last many years, and of course I include my own take on it, but I would really like to see some other takes on this matter. Please read the edited conversation below, and add your own comments (and please keep it civil; I’m looking for reasoned arguments, not rehashing old talking points):

Poll

53 votes Show Results

When you hear the words

53 votes Vote Now!

When you hear the words

No, marriage is just a legal contract, it doesn't matter what you call it. Call it a dog-and-pony show for all I care.

21 votes

Yes, marriage is a sacred institution, whether it is done in a religious or a secular setting. Those other terms aren't the same to me.

18 votes

Maybe. It depends on how much people accept the newer terms as being the same thing as marriage. Give it time.

6 votes

Marriage scares me. Nobody should get married. Let's eliminate the institution entirely!

8 votes

Retraction to "Body Bag/Toe Tag" Story from 10-26-2009

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Friday October 30, 2009 · 11:36 PM PDT

2009/10/30 · 23:36

Jeri, my wife's aunt who recently lost her job at ACS in North Bend, Oregon after receiving a Halloween gift the day before which included a miniature "body bag" with an official North Bend Coroner's Office toe-tag, wishes to clarify, and defuse, the situation with the following statement:

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