The constant barrage
Fuck the NRA. You’re seriously paying people to advertise your organization on Yahoo message boards. After everything that’s happened? I don’t know what else to say. Maybe it’s not a big deal. I don’t...
View ArticleResponsible Gun Owners. Indeed!
Happy? Holidays!Not surprisingly we are ending the year with yet another massacre and once again we are reading about insane people who are troubled, off their meds, and/or mentally ill.These are, as...
View Articleone last post on guns this evening
courtesy of this blog postFirst read thisHow does a person convicted of manslaughter obtain 18 assault weapons and other firearms, along with 40,000 rounds of ammunition? Well, according to NBC News, a...
View ArticleCan an entire culture be insane?
Don't answer too quickly. It is a trick question, or is it? Let's look at some of the tricks. First of all, can you tell me how "normal" you are? Please be careful here. Normal relative to what?...
View ArticleHere We Go Again
The Arizona Legislature is at it again, trying one more time to see if the federal Supremacy clause really means what it says:REFERENCE TITLE: hospital admissions; restrictions State of ArizonaHouse of...
View ArticleWayne’s World – Excellent!
"Wayne's World!! Wayne's Word!! Party Time!! Excellent!!"I swear it is getting nearly impossible to continue writing about gun control. The conversation, since Newtown, has just been off the charts...
View ArticleHow much longer will we kill our young by inventing "enemies"?
I was trained like so many others to be prepared to kill our "enemies". This is all taken as so natural. In the animal kingdom killing is very natural in limited ways. Human evolution, especially...
View Article"Shame."
Presented without commentary…(h/t to Mark Thoma at Economist’s View, and Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism)
View Article“The Politics of Disimagination and the Pathologies of Power,” by Dr. Henry...
(NOTE: Dr. Giroux has provided written authorization to the diarist to reproduce his work in its entirety for the benefit of the Daily Kos community. Giroux is a member of Truthout's Board of...
View ArticleWorst Funeral, Ever.
No, not really........but it still sucked. For those just tuning in, as per my earlier diary, my mother died Sunday 2/24/13 of congestive heart failure. I got back from the service in the afternoon,...
View ArticleOnly Obama can enact the sh!t GOP ideas that the public just rejected....
Of course, the corporate media will never report this point of view.Yes, Obama is the only person in America who can give the Republican party what they can not win in elections. Massive budget cuts,...
View ArticleSome thoughts on the day after my 77th birthday
I don't know how many more times I will get to do this. If anyone wants to give me a belateled birthday present please read this review of our book: Review of "Global Insanity" I had a good day...
View ArticleHopelessly Misinformed Latino’s For Congress
Hola! It's Miguel! Hope you are all doing very well. Even since Senor Romney lost, we Latinos have been working tirelessly to ensure that Congress does not forget about us. As you might recall, Romney...
View ArticleThe times they ARE a changin'. More than we will admit.
The recent continual downhill slide of our political theater may have surprised some folk. The debates and pundit pronouncements all tend to infer that there were alternatives. I wonder if they...
View ArticleBoston: The Unraveling and a Plea for the Healing of Our Society
I find it hard to write about anything after this happened. Boston is a great city I had the pleasure to visit in a field trip in 2006 while I was in school. There was so much life in that city and...
View ArticleDear Anti-Gun Control Fellow Citizens
It occurs to me, watching all the first responders in Boston---all the police officers and EMS crews and national guard members who worked WITH the countless citizens who rushed in to help those who...
View ArticleInsanity
I've been writing a science fiction story. In my story, the "Mutant Uprising" came about because corporations were irresponsible and polluted the earth. To give my story realism, I decided to look up...
View ArticleOut of their Damn Minds: NRA says 'Keep a gun in your child's room'.
NRA speaker’s advice: Keep a gun in your child’s roomFirst, trust no one:“If you’re worried that your kid is going to try to break into the safe that is in their bedroom with a gun in it, you have...
View ArticleEnding the Draft Was a Very Good Thing
[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster.]The good David Sirota of Salon asks an excellent question in wondering whether ending the draft (forced military conscription for young males) was a wise military and...
View ArticleThe Definition of Insanity (updated)
in·san·i·ty inˈsanitēNoun 1.The state of being seriously mentally ill; madness. 2.Extreme foolishness or irrationality.Synonyms madness - lunacy - craziness - derangement - dementia"Insanity: doing...
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