Tag: ek Politics

Buggy Whip Futures

It has come to my attention that there is severe underemployment in the Farrier, Blacksmithing, and Carriage Making and Buggy Whip industries which, left unchecked, could spread to the Street Sweeping, Boardwalk, and Agricultural Productivity Enhancement portions of our economy, potentially disrupting up to 75% of our Gross Domestic Product. This is a Very Serious …

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180 Degrees Wrong

The dumbest criticism of single payer health care By Paul Waldman, Washington Post July 6, 2017 There is simply no critique you can make of single payer health care that is more wrong than “It’ll be too expensive.” That is 180 degrees backwards. Single payer is many things, but above all it is cheap. And …

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Independence Day

 

Cat In A Box

 

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 injustice …

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Bill Black on Grenfell and Neo Liberalism

  London Grenfell Inferno: Who’s to Blame? Now, what is Tony Blair’s role in all of this? Tony Blair of course, A, and Gordon Brown, were the Labour Party prime ministers for many years after Thatcher and some major in between and such. They had over a decade to fix this. They not only didn’t …

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Beached Whale!

Moby Dick In a sad story a Great White Whale was discovered by Photographer Andrew Mills of NJ Advance Media Sunday, July 2nd 2017, stranded on the beach at Island Beach Park in New Jersey. Mr. Mills and his pilot were in the air to take some pictures contrasting the overcrowded Municipal Parks and Beaches …

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Who is this Paul McCartney guy anyway?

Unless you were born yesterday or, like my father Richard, think Romantic music is trash and Beethoven an atonal noise merchant (I’m 120 years plus, Dad is older than that) the talented and inspired Ann Lenox should require no introduction. She has 8 Brit Awards (including 6 for Best Female Artist), 4 Grammys, an MTV …

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When You Thought It Couldn’t Get Any Worse- Cruzcare

Just so you remember Ted Cruz’s position in the Republican Party, he’s the one they liked The Donald better than. Everybody hates him, though mostly for personal and petty reasons not because he doesn’t represent a sizeable chunk of what passes for “mainstream thought” in that cesspit of unreasoning greed and hatred (yup, I object …

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Weird Funny

  I’m funny how? I mean funny like I’m a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny? What about peculiar? Differing from the ordinary in a perplexing, quaint, or eccentric way. How about suspicious, involving trickery or deception? Hah. I almost had you. …

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