Category: Politics
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Some Notes on Arundhati Roy Books I Have Recently Read
I had heard of Arundhati Roy and her novel The God of Small Things when it was published back in 1997. I had long forgotten why the book interested me. I was a newly-minted Christian at the time, so maybe the provocative title with “God” in it made me want…
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Marx Turns 200 Today
Today is the bicentennial of Karl Marx’s birth, and while much of his work is over my head, some of his basic ideas are spot on like how all profit is “surplus-value” (obtained by paying workers less than the value of what they produce). Marx called capitalism inefficient, wasteful, and immoral. Today…
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Horrible Sports Team Names
It will be nice to see the Chief Wahoo logo finally phased out since the initial removal of the offensive logo from the players’ caps and batting helmets back in 2014. Here’s a timeline from Mother Jones of offensive sports mascots. Some of them are quite unbelievable. Before the Washington…
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The Wobblies Past (and Present, I guess)
One night a few years ago I showed a 2-for-1 coupon for a local pan-Asian restaurant to my son. I wanted to know if he had visited the restaurant. He is a pescatarian, and places like this noodle restaurant are right up his alley. “Yeah, I’ve been there–many times,” he said. “It’s good. Our…
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Great post from one of my favorite bloggers
A quick and easy reference that attempts to make talking about guns easier and more productive. via The 12 Most Common Fallacious Gun Arguments (and How to Refute Them) — theindependentthinker2016
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The Oft-Forgotten Vietnam War Doc
This post is from one of my favorite bloggers, Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist. With all the press (the positive reviews and also some fascinating critical views) about the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick series on Vietnam, Peter Davis’ brilliant 1974 documentary seems to have been forgotten–once again. When the 1983 PBS…
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Interview with David Doel
I don’t spend a lot of time on YouTube, but when I do I check out short clips from hour-long shows like Democracy Now!, Majority Report, Thom Hartmann Program, and Democracy at Work. There is one channel, however, I religiously check out every day: David Doel’s The Rational National. The…
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(Political) Podcast Junkie
Since I started riding my bike to work about four years ago, I have had much more time to listen to podcasts and audiobooks. As I discover new podcasts the time spent on audiobooks naturally diminishes and if I get bogged down in an uninspiring audiobook I end up overdosing…
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I couldn’t have said it any better
Dear Frank Can I call you Frank? This is just pastor to pastor. Feel free to call me Peter. Anyway, I have to say I was flattered when I learned that your Decision America Tour took a detour off the beaten path to call upon us “small community churches.” We…
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No surprise here:
The pathetic and predictable response from U.S. lawmakers and the corporate media to Trump’s Syria airstrike. I wish I were surprised by the number of U.S. lawmakers that supported President Trump’s airstrike on an air base in Syria, but I am not. While I wasn’t surprised that virtually all GOP…
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