BURGER SCOOT

  • Tax the Rich (Bastards)!

    Of all the political topics that get me riled up, besides the “man-madeglobal warming is a hoax,” I think the myth that taxing the rich is a badthing pisses me off the most. I’m going through a blogger’s dry patch. It’s like writer’s block, but it’s more like a lack of inspiration to post anything.… Read more

  • Better Late Than Never

    Smedley Butler turned against what would later evolve into the military-industrial complex after helping create it. General Smedley Butler (Right) with Major General John A. Lejeune in camp at Frederick, Maryland in 1922. (Bettmann / Getty Images) Smedley Butler Helped Build American Empire. Then He Turned Against It. I remember reading Smedley Butler’s 1935 War… Read more

  • New reflectors for my ride (and other boring stuff)

    I picked up my Vespa from Scooter City the other day after some expensive work was done on it. Hopefully, the leaky back tire is fixed for good. I’ve been in to have this leaky tire fixed for the third time. This time I put my foot down and told Rick, my trusted mechanic, that… Read more

  • George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” turned 51 recently

    This is an innovative music video written and directed by Lance Bangs (director of many music videos as well as the Jackass television shows) and produced by Dhani Harrison (George’s son), David Zonshine (Dhani’s manager and a record executive). The video features appearances by: Mark Hamill, Fred Armisen, Vanessa Bayer, Ringo Starr, Dhani Harrison, Olivia… Read more

  • Two of my favorite lefties meet (remotely) for the first time.

    AOC in Conversation With Noam Chomsky — Jacobin I’m sharing a post from one of my favorite political magazines, Jacobin. Noam Chomsky was probably the first great dissident I discovered by myself. (I was already introduced to I. F. Stone, Howard Zinn, and others by my mentor in college the late William A. Dorman.) I… Read more

  • Happy Thanksgiving, Pass the Smallpox Blankets

    Something to chew on besides turkey. Yeah, I know I’m a stinker. Wait ’til 9/11 comes around and I post something about the CIA overthrowing Allende’s Chile on that date in 1973. I guess that’s why no one invites me to parties anymore. Read more