Tristan and Mark Hackard join me to cover the depth of Dostoyevsky in a new installment that fits well with Mark’s older podcasts on the great Russian writer, as well as Tristan’s new analyses of Notes and Demons, as well as other important texts like Crime and Punishment and Grand Inquisitor.LIVE at 830 PM CST […]
Edward Curtin Something is happening here, But you don’t know what it is, Do you, Mr. Jones? Bob Dylan, Ballad of A Thin Man It’s hard… Life today seems like a dream, doesn’t it? Surreal to the point where everything seems haunted and betwixt and between, or this against that, or that and this against …
Rebutting Tory attack lines: crime and punishment
by Ian Sinclair
Morning Star
22 November 2019
Earlier this month the Guardian reported the Tories hope to win Labour seats at the general election “with a tough stance on law and order”.
Yesterday, in the post about polls, we saw how 45% of Democrats say they are more likely to vote for Biden in the primary because of "his role in passing sweeping crime legislation during the 1990s." Presumably they are unaware of the controversy around the horrible legislation Biden wrote in the '90s.
Knife crime: myth and reality
by Ian Sinclair
Morning Star
6 May 2019
Fuelled by the right-wing media, a number of myths have grown up around the topic of knife crime. With the number of knife offences (39,818) and homicides committed with a knife (285) reaching record highs in 2018, according to the Home Office, it’s worth interrogating these falsehoods, and considering interventions which might help.
…the bourgeois order . . . has become a vampire that sucks out its [the smallholding peasantry’s] blood and brains and throws them into the alchemist’s cauldron.
— Karl Marx, 18th Brumaire
To initiate a war of aggression…, said the Nuremberg Tribunal judges in 1946, is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.
Yes, it's not one but two Big Rat Bastard Gummers, last week in Becky's Diner in Portland, Maine, where the Pine State's gummer endorsed the gummer of the Garden State for president.by KenIn yesterday's Part 1, we focused on the twice-elected "
This is just a screen grab. If you want linksyou should be able to find 'em yourself.by Ken"Gut-wrenching, remarkable television," eh? Further, from the blurb for the respective entry on today's NYT "Today's Headlines" e-newsletter, I learn further: "HBO pioneered a new kind of appointment television on Sunday night." Okay then, please cancel my appointment.I really can't say anything about The Jinx itself. I didn't have any interest in watching it, and I still don't.
