My friend Dorothy Reik was recently elected to the L.A. County Democratic Party Central Committee. She received more votes than anyone else who has ever run for that position. Ever! Yesterday, Reik wrote to subscribers of her influential daily update list that "Bernie was on Chris Hayes last night and Velshi this morning. He also hosts town halls on line. Where is Biden???
The sons and daughters of the uber-richby Gaius PubliusCapitalism is an economic system that encourages people to act from the most pathological individual motives and promises the best social outcome. As Noam Chomsky said, our current ideology is producing a nation, a world, of psychopaths. From an interview with Rob Kall:
-by NoahImagine a world where a campaign organization had so much power over its candidate that they could replace that candidate at will. Think about it. So many political candidates are such empty vessels, and so devoid of any real intellect or personality, let alone moral compass, that they are really nothing more than a creation of campaign script writers.
Correction: We're not eating money. We're feeding it to the wealthy in exchange for nothing at all. Time to stop? (source)by Gaius PubliusIt's not over yet — in the largest sense — but thinking like this sure moves the climate car closer to the no-return part of the cliff. The governor of Alaska wants to drill more oil to pay for ... wait for it ...
Police Pleasantly Surprised To Learn Man They Shot Was ArmedNEWS IN BRIEF • Local • Crime • Police • Violence • Issue 50•41 • Oct 14, 2014LEXINGTON, KY—Fo
