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Jul 09 2018
Direct Action (Red Hen Again)
You may well ask: “Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?” You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has …
Jul 08 2018
CRISPR Critters
CRISPR is an abbreviation of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. It’s a virus that targets certain DNA sequences effectively chopping large genes into shorter, more simply sequenced bits. Or that’s what it was designed for. With the addition of Cas9 (not to be confused with Ice 9, an arrangement of ice crystals that remain …
Jul 07 2018
Give Me ‘The Break’
So I’ve been lucky enough to acquire a Netflix password which in addition to allowing me to watch 13 Reasons Why (just incredibly depressing, makes you want to tear through your monitor and change things) also gives me access to Michelle Wolf’s new series The Break (also incredibly depressing, makes you want to tear through …
Jul 06 2018
Contempt Of Court
It is clear the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health an Human Services are going to be unable to comply with Judge Dana M. Sabraw’s orders to- Allow all separated families to contact each other no later than July 7th (tomorrow folks). Reunite all children under 5 years old with their families …
Jul 06 2018
A Staggering Volume Of Lies
Now we all know that everything that comes out of Trump’s mouth is a lie including the articles “A”, “An”, and “The”. The principle difference is that he’s openining it more. Shortly after inaguration it was a moderate 3 whoppers a day rising in 2018 to 5. Still, single digits. Over the last 2 weeks …
Jul 05 2018
What did you do in the Second Civil War?
What?! You didn’t hear?! The electric twitter machine has been all atwit. I, at my forward base- Stars Hollow North Lake, am in the heart of Red Cap country. Yesterday saw little MAGA activity as the apparent temperature was over 110. It was hard to distinguish the Red Caps at the beach because they had …
Jul 05 2018
Drip, Drip, Drip
Max Boot, while lesser known than George Will, is not suddenly a good person either. He is however, part of a string of prominent Conservatives who have abandoned the Republican Party and indeed are urging people to vote Democratic this fall. I left the Republican Party. Now I want Democrats to take over. by Max …
Jul 05 2018
Why The Trans-Pacific Partnership Was And Is A Bad Idea #127,256
Life with Trump can make almost anything else seem better, but before you get all weepy and nostalgic- Najib Razak, Malaysia’s Ex-Prime Minister, Is Arrested Amid Corruption Inquiry By Hannah Beech and Austin Ramzy, The New York Times July 3, 2018 Najib Razak, the former prime minister of Malaysia who was ousted in an election …
Jul 04 2018
Red Hen
(W)hat will convince them? This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right. And this must be done thoroughly – done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated – we must place ourselves avowedly with them. Senator Douglas’ new sedition law must be …
Jul 04 2018
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
The Counter-Revolution of 1776 and the Construction of Whiteness August 20, 2014 What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass July 5, 1852 What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross …
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