September 2011
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It's not "class warfare," it's Christianity →
Part of the way we got here is by Christian conservatives ignoring a lot of what the Bible says on wealth and poverty, and being highly selective in what they call “biblical.” In all these reference to the “Bible,” the self-styled Christian capitalists don’t ever seem to recall that in the Book of Acts, the early disciples “shared all things in common.” As I wrote for On Faith, the early...
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The Dinner of Her Skin
The bitch
wreaked of lavender
and some mint,
and then faint trails of marigold and hibiscus.
I hunted her, for months observing the small zigzag pattern of her gait,
the exquisite tiny hops of her feet that played like a melody when she stepped.
And I knew
where she had been,
where she was going.
I knew the hearty smell
of dinner soup
she spooned
in to her mouth.
I...
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Republican Can't Afford New Taxes →
Watch the video, and then I’ll break down the numbers.
John Fleming’s Subway and UPS franchises bring in about 6.3 million a year. Net income is $600,000, a rough profit of 10%. Great, awesome.
Here’s the good part, he has to “feed his family,” and $400,000 is left over. So if you do the math, he pays himself $200,000. The national median for household incomes in...
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The TSA protects! It saves lives! It ships... →
Can we get rid of this worthless institution now?
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Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult →
Every American should read this. The public outcry should be epic.
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The Terrorists Win. →
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Shema
The following poem is based on an earlier poem called “I Have Given Evil A Name.” That poem will remain in the archives, but consider it scratched. The middle section of that poem was by far the strongest, so I took it out and made it stand on its own.
Our God who razed the Mosques, burning God of witches, Lord inquisitive God of Spain,
our God the Crusader, God the Jew hater, God,...
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What you should have learned Senior year. →
The Oatmeal imparts his wisdom once again.
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"Trickle-down economics" is wrong →
Look back over the last hundred years and you’ll see the pattern. During periods when the very rich took home a much smaller proportion of total income — as in the Great Prosperity between 1947 and 1977 — the nation as a whole grew faster and median wages surged. We created a virtuous cycle in which an ever growing middle class had the ability to consume more goods and services, which...
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TSA Security Theater →
The video is spot on.
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