I read recently that the average American spends more time evaluating the purchase of a vacuum cleaner than in casting their ballot. That struck home. By way of amends, I sat down and read the sample ballot pamphlet, reviewed the League of Women Voters website, and looked at websites on both sides of most of the …
Category: My Soap Box
Sep 01
Hands Up, Don’t Shoot (Music Video)
This is by Dave Lippman, forwarded by local singer/songwriter/activist Dave Welsh:
Aug 10
A Song for Gaza
A Song for Gaza: The Ballad of Rivka and Mohammed Performed by Leo Rosselson. Featured on the website of the Stop the War Coalition (UK), originally on www.leonrosselson.co.uk Lyrics: I was watching the news from Gaza And I fell asleep on my chair And when I awoke from my slumber A young girl was standing there. She said, …
Jul 10
Soccer shocker
While Germany dismantled Brazil on the futebol grass, Israel demolished the houses of Palestinian families in Gaza — and my attention, like much of the world’s, was focused on the soccer game. In the article below, originally published by Al Jazeera English, Prof. Hamid Dabashi of Columbia University in New York asks why is that. Excellent question. …
Jun 27
One or two big grabbers
Handing the world over to future generations is a transaction without reciprocity. It violates a basic principle of contract law, which is fundamental to a market economy. So if the handover to the future is governed by the market, the present generation will grab all it can and leave nothing for its descendants. That’s the …
May 11
State of the Nation
Thanks to Occupy Posters via Daily Kos for this cartoon that says a lot in just a few words: …
Apr 11
The Poverty of Education
Treatises on education are often ordeals of blurry thinking, but no such complaint can be leveled against Diane Ravitch’s latest. From the title — Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools — to the final paragraph, Ravitch marshals her arguments and her evidence in clear declarative sentences. …
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