OccupyWallStreet: We are not cannon fodder for Washington policy wonks

  Glenn Greenwald gets OccupyWallStreet in a way that many doubters do not.  In his latest post at Salon, Can OWS be turned into a Democratic party movement, he writes: Given these facts, does the Center for American Progress really believe that the protest movement named OccupyWallStreet was begun — and that people are being arrested and [...]

Glenn Beck’s head on a pike?

Oops!  I meant Lloyd Blankfein’s effigy of a head on a pike, not the actual, you know, *head*.  Because that would be wrong. So, recently Glenn Beck got all hysterical and hid under the bed because a bunch of regular Americans (who probably don’t listen to Glenn Beck) decided to occupywallstreet and speak their minds. [...]

OccupyTogether: Robin Hoods take Chicago

Damn, those midwesterners are good.  Occupy Chicago got creative yesterday.  40 kayakers took to the river dressed as Robin Hoods, a banner was unfurled on a bridge and several occupiers dressed up in suits and crashed a plenary session of mortgage bankers they were holding at a local hotel.  They were so disruptive the meeting [...]

While we were watching OccupyWallStreet…

… it appears that our Congress was paying absolutely no attention at all.  Greg Sargent’s Plum Line has the gritty details about how Republicans, and some Democrats, are planning to vote down Obama’s jobs bill.  The entrails do not look good for Democrats in red states that oppose the bill according to Stan Greenberg: Top [...]

Psych! Prions and Ice Nine

I saw this post about the possibility that Alzheimer’s is an infectious disease at Derek Lowe’s blog, In the Pipeline.  There’s a new paper out that reports that animals whose brains were exposed to misfolded amyloid-β protein extracted from patients with Alzheimer’s disease will go on to also develop amyloid plaques while control animals do [...]

Jesse LaGreca does it again

I wouldn’t call Jesse a spokesperson for OccupyWallStreet and he wouldn’t either.  But, damn, he’s good.  Today he was a guest of Christiane Amanpour’s round table on ABC’s This Week.  He’s able to derail George Will’s self-reverential bloviating about smaller government, deficit reducing blahdy-blah and he does it with a pugnacious, mischievous delight.  I live [...]

OccupyWallStreet: Naomi Klein explains it all

I saw this video at Suburban Guerilla (H/T Susie Madrak).  It’s an easy to understand explanation of what OccupyWallStreet is all about from Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine.  The clip is about 7 minutes long. I am not surprised at the right wing rhetoric that is permeating the blogosphere today.  Here are some [...]

OccupyWallStreet: Something’s Coming

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OccupyWallStreet: Why it has to be

I’ve noticed a certain deranged Klown has a provocative and baseless post up on his blog (see myiq?  We are sending you traffic) that suggests that OccupyWallStreet and other Occupy events are part of some broader astroturf campaign.  I’m not sure how he came to that conclusion.  I mean, they aren’t infiltrating blogs, promoting candidates [...]

OccupyWallSt: 16 Tons

We sang this song yesterday at the OccupyWallStreet event in NYC.  I found this version by Shelly Raine. Sing it Shelly.