The Psychedelic Furs were always ahead of their time. The song above, lead track on the Forever Now album, was written and recorded almost four decades ago!
Last Friday, former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau interviewed Marianne Williamson on his podcast, Pod Save America. Among other things, Marianne told him that "there are two kinds of Democrats, aren’t there? And that’s being played out in this campaign. There are two categories here. The two categories is the incrementalist who say we can have it both ways. We can take [corporate] money. We can take tens of thousands from some security investment firms. We can take tens of thousand from Big Pharma.
In a post entitled How Many Democrats Are The Koch Brothers Backing in November? for IVN this week, W. E. Messamore asserts that the Kochs and their appendages are "staunchly anti-war...
Some congressional candidates campaign explicitly on impeaching Trump. The DCCC advises against that. Kaniela Ing, for example, warns Democrats at the top of his issues page that "It's not enough to simply resist Donald Trump. People are struggling and feeling left behind.
Tomorrow is election day in PA-18-- an election in a dismal district that will cease to exist immediately after the votes are counted. Whomever wins-- a shit Democrat (Conor Lamb) or a shit Republican (Rick Saccone)-- will have to run in a different district in November... and PA-18 is divided between a really red district for Saccone and a competitive district leaning blue either for Lamb or, hopefully, a better Democrat. Lamb is a Blue Dog who defines what it means to be a political coward.
I spent about an hour or so, spread over a couple of phone calls, with Jon Ossoff right after he declared. I was impressed with his energy and verve, his dedication to oppose Trump and the House Republicans and his eagerness to do what’s necessary to win. He didn’t come across as a Bernie Sanders or a Pramila Jayapal or Elizabeth Warren but he did come across as kind of progressive.
When Dan Levitin was working on his 2014 bestseller- The Organized Mind-- he interviewed former Secretary of Labor, Treasury and State, George Schultz, primarily about lessons Schultz had learned from his days as the president of corporate behemoth Bechtel from 1974-'82, before Reagan appointed him Secretary of State.
