Nate Silver (aka poblano) had a very bad day yesterday, predicting there was a 99% chance Hillary would win Michigan. He might have done better if he had read this piece by dday. The Democratic Party’s working-class calamity: How a generation of workers were abandoned to corporate interests by David Dayen, Salon Tuesday, Mar 8, …
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Mar 09 2016
Trump Steaks Are A Real Thing
And those were probably the genuine article on the table last night. Now a lot of people have been treating this as bizarre and inexplicable but it’s not at all really. The Trump name is a brand like Louis Vuitton or Tiffany and for years and years The Donald has been entering into lucrative licensing …
Mar 08 2016
Thumb on the Scale
Washington Post Ran 16 Negative Stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 Hours by Adam Johnson, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) Tuesday, March 08, 2016 In what has to be some kind of record, the Washington Post ran 16 negative stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 hours, between roughly 10:20 PM EST Sunday, March 6, …
Mar 07 2016
Our First ‘Black’ President
Clinton-era welfare reforms haunt America’s poorest families, critics say by Chris McGreal, The Guardian Monday 7 March 2016 11.28 EST In 1996, when welfare reforms were introduced in a coalition between President Bill Clinton and Republicans, 68% of families in the US living below the poverty line received cash assistance. That has since fallen to …
Mar 07 2016
Leverage
Since it is Monday and not Friday as Atrios constantly insists I occasionally like to draw your attention to things economic. This piece appeared over at New Economic Perspectives and while it’s slightly wonky at the beginning it gets more lucid toward the end and is overall a good explanation of the basics by a …
Mar 04 2016
The Reality Of ‘Public Assistance’
From Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Major Major’s father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism. He advocated thrift and hard work and …
Feb 29 2016
Black Votes Matter
You know, I don’t even pretend to understand what it is to be Black in the United States. People think things are monochrome in Stars Hollow and they pretty much are, in Stars Hollow (hate this stinking town), but I don’t live more than an hour away from any part of Connecticut and there is …
Feb 28 2016
Coming to terms with my disability.
It’s difficult because it sounds like bragging- “Oh, life is so tough because I have an 11 inch penis (not true)”. And even if it were what are the advantages? Do you think women like it? Guys, you have to wake up and smell the coffee, nothing you do or ever can do is going …
Feb 27 2016
On The Margins: South Carolina Democratic Primary Open Thread
Hillary will probably win because for some imaginary reason (Arsenio Hall, Saxophone?) African-Americans think that she has… Well, what exactly? Policies that benefit them? Barack Obama has been the worst President for Black people since Reconstruction. Did you vote for him because of the color of his skin? Well, then you’re a racist. I voted …
Feb 27 2016
We Don’t Give A Rat’s Ass What You Think
There are a few reasons I was run off of Daily Kos but the principal one is that I didn’t instantly toe the Institutional Democratic Party line. Labor seeks revenge on free-trade Dems By Adam Behsudi, Politico 02/27/16 07:58 AM EST Labor’s fight against the White House’ free-trade agenda is moving into the trenches in …
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