Sunday: Make this the week you free yourself

Thursday, November 17: Shut Down Wall Street If you haven’t had a chance to read it yet, Matt Taibbi has a piece in the Rolling Stone where he confesses that he didn’t “get” Occupy Wall Street at first, but now he does: What both sides missed is that OWS is tired of all of this. [...]

More Naomi Klein please

Check out this video of the panel discussion of the Occupy Movement at The New School from last Thursday night. Naomi Klein is brilliant again.   She is soooo good and so articulate.  She explains things so clearly you just automatically understand them. And then there’s Michael Moore. What can I say?  I’m sure he [...]

Saturday: Cranky, old Christians

I found this prayer request from The Family Research Council from a link at Hullabaloo.  The religious right is using every trick in the book to keep the Christians from defecating.  Er, defecting.  I don’t know which.  Every time I’ve been to Occupy Wall Street at Zuccotti Park in Manhattan, I see a lot of [...]

Friday: No Coffee

All out.  My Ikea stash is depleted.  The lack of caffeine must explain why this account of a fatal shooting at Occupy Oakland makes no damn sense: After the initial fight, one of the young men called several friends or family members from outside the camp and asked them to come and help him. It’s [...]

Thursday: Analysis comes trickling in

According to Dan Balz at WaPo, Ohio may be key to Obama’s reelection.  He won’t necessarily lose the presidency if he loses Ohio.  It’s just that no one since Jack Kennedy has been able to pull it off.  Obama apparently has a problem with white working class and older voters.  I don’t suppose it has [...]

Wednesday Fall Out

Update: Female bloggers are speaking up about the shit they encounter online from young male Democrats male commenters.  Check out twitter hashtag #mencallmethings for more.  Most of the assholes’ comments revolve around rape and violence.  The thing that pisses me off is that so many women succumb to this crap and get scared away from [...]

Tuesday Turn Around

There may be a teensy bit of progress on the job front.  We are sloooooowly moving away from a state of complete inertia there.  No income yet but progress.  This is good. In the meantime, seniors in Chicago are getting arrested at an Occupation type event.  Whoo-hoo!  Let’s give it up for the septugenarians!: More [...]

Monday, Monday

Lots of stuff to do today so I’ll try to make this brief. I saw this video from Bill Black at Naked Capitalism yesterday.  He has three practical demands that OccupyWallStreet should consider.  They are: 1.) Jobs Now 2.) Stop the foreclosures 3.) Jail the bankers The jobs part got my attention because it makes [...]

Over 1000 comments on the NYTimes article on science majors dropping out

This goes back to the article posted in the Times yesterday about Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (it’s just so darn hard). Typical of the Times, the editor has chosen to highlight a lot of educator comments that go something like, “Well, of course it’s hard.  You have to study and stop whining and [...]

Remember, Remember, the 5th of November

The 1% treason and plot I see no reason why the 1 % treason Should ever be forgot Today is the day to move your bank accounts if you still need to. see the V for Vendetta ending here. “A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!” ― Thomas [...]