Posted on October 12, 2009 by bostonboomer
Today is Columbus Day. That’s an important holiday here in Massachusetts, so I don’t have to teach today. Of course that doesn’t mean I don’t have work to do, but it’s still a nice break from my regular routine. But should we be honoring Christopher Columbus with a holiday?
Parades span the country [...]
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Posted on October 6, 2009 by dakinikat
This is one of those stories I offer up not because I really know much about the subject at hand but because what’s
being talked about doesn’t pass the smell test for me. Policy on terrorism was one of those issues where we were supposed to see a distinct difference between the Dubya/vpResident Evil administration and [...]
Filed under: FISA, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Human Rights, Justice, Law Enforcement, Media, Patriot act, Worst President Ever, government | Tagged: Ann Kornblut, Glenn Greenwald, Howard Kurtz, incarceration of terror suspects, Media Matters, Salon, terrorism, The Washington Post, Zazi | 85 Comments »
Posted on September 30, 2009 by Steven Mather
America isn’t easy
Building and sustaining a diverse community is not easy.
What should we celebrate?
Celebrate: to perform (a sacrament or ceremony) publicly and with appropriate rites; to honor by solemn ceremonies and refraining from ordinary business; to hold up or play for public notice.
What should we tolerate?
Tolerate: to endure or resist the [...]
Filed under: Democracy as a form of liberal goverment, General, Human Rights, Politics, culture | Tagged: blogophere, citizenship, civics, ethics, free speech, Politics, rights and responsibilities | 95 Comments »
Posted on September 21, 2009 by Steven Mather
Gay-Lussac
The pressure of a fixed mass and fixed volume of a gas is directly proportional to the gas’s temperature.
This relationship is known as the Gay-Lussac’s Law and a pressure cooker is an example of the law in practice. Cooking under pressure creates the possibility of cooking with high temperature liquids because the boiling point of [...]
Filed under: Bad Bank, Barack Obama, Blogosphere, Campaign Finance Reform, Clinton Derangement Syndrome, Cost of Sexism, Democracy as a form of liberal goverment, Economy, FISA, Financial Meltdown of 2008, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gender Equity, General, Health Care Reform, Human Rights, Justice, LGBT rights, Liberalism, Politics, Recession/Depression 2008, Single Payer, Social Media, astroturf, big pharma, broken promises, choice, collective action, corruption, culture, feminism, financial bailout, foreign policy, government, racism | Tagged: bailout, civic virtue, civil liberties, civility, ethics, Health Care Reform, moral hazard, morality, Politics, recession, Single Payer, TARP | 18 Comments »
Posted on September 19, 2009 by Steven Mather
O’Keefe and Giles, in their portrayal of pimp and prostitute, reek of puerile classism. Were it not for the overwhelmingly noxious fumes emanating from the handful of ACORN employees who were apparently willing to enable a child prostitution ring exploiting illegal immigrants, the stink of the ill-informed moral superiority of O’Keefe and Giles would [...]
Filed under: Cost of Sexism, Gender Equity, General, Human Rights, Media, Politics, culture, domestic violence, feminism, sexism and misogyny | Tagged: ACORN, Big Government, child prostitution, Cotton Mather, Democratic Party, documentary, Fox News, Hannah Giles, illegal immigration, James O'Keefe, Obama, prostitution, Puritan, Puritanism, Republican Party, sting, US Congress, US Senate | 183 Comments »
Posted on September 15, 2009 by Steven Mather
Is it beyond our ken to maintain a noble purpose as we guide our battered ships of state through the dark shadows of this mild squall of an economic crisis? Whom of us will risk life and limb to keep the ships afloat? Who will cast away possessions for the same purpose? [...]
Filed under: Economy, Financial Meltdown of 2008, Health Care Reform, Human Rights, Hurricane Katrina, Justice, Liberalism, culture, going forward, government | Tagged: absurdity, Cap and Trade, carbon emissions, civic virtue, clean air act, climate change, CO2, cultural dynamics, energy, environmental collapse, environmental degradation, environmental responsiblity, EPA, ethics, extinction, food crisis, global warming, gorilla poaching, greenhouse gases, honeybees, intersex fish, mafia, morality, nuclear waste, Politics, sacred cow, sacrifice, starvation, world development report | 103 Comments »
Posted on September 11, 2009 by Steven Mather
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. – Abraham Lincoln
There’s a sucker born every minute. – P.T. Barnum
We, the People, are born every minute. The last ten [...]
Filed under: American Society in Flux, Barack Obama, Democracy as a form of liberal goverment, Economy, General, Health Care Reform, Human Rights, Politics, Single Payer, big pharma, choice, corruption, government, healthcare | Tagged: anti-liberty, Barack Obama, big brother, Big Insurance, big pharma, conservatives, founding fathers, Frater Magnus, Glenn Beck, Glenn Greenwald, GOP, health care, Health Care Reform, HMOs, liberty, neo-feudalism, Politics, private healthcare, Single Payer, tea parties, U.S. Constitution, Washington | 46 Comments »
Posted on August 24, 2009 by dakinikat
There’s a great answer to that question and the main question of David Rothkopf’s article at WaPo entitled It’s 3 a.m. Do You Know Where Hillary Clinton Is? His answer is: She’s not answering those crisis calls at the White House. But she’s quietly revolutionizing American foreign policy. It’s nice to know at least some [...]
Filed under: Foreign affairs, Gender Equity, Hillary Clinton, Human Rights, foreign policy | Tagged: David Rothkopf, foreign policy, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, sexism, Sexist treatment of Hillary Clinton, State Department | 47 Comments »
Posted on August 23, 2009 by Steven Mather
In difficult circumstances, such as the current economic crisis, it’s normal to work out how one got there as a means to avoid repeating the process. In the current situation, the discussion seems to range between those who feel that the situation is already working itself out, to those who feel that structural dangers [...]
Filed under: Democracy as a form of liberal goverment, Economy, General, Human Rights, Justice, Politics, education, going forward, government | Tagged: Barack Obama, Politics, education, James Madison, recession, FDR, activism, The New Deal, U.S. Constitution, limited government, re-structuring, White House, 10th Amendment, Bachmann, Alexander Hamilton, Beck, DeMint, Perry, downsize, Washington | 4 Comments »
Posted on August 11, 2009 by myiq2xu
Sometimes you read stuff that makes you want to go townhall on the author. From Political Punch:
ABC News’ Kirit Radia reports: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost her cool Monday after a Congolese student, speaking through a translator, asked her what “Mr. Clinton” thought about a Chinese trade deal with the [...]
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