Category: Politics
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Neo-liberalism: How we got in this mess
I wouldn’t say “It’s all Reagan’s fault.” Every president since Reagan has embraced the neo-liberal project. Bill Clinton did plenty of damage while he was president embracing the project and betraying the working people of America he was supposed to support–being a Democrat and all. He’s the guy who signed…
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Noam Chomsky on the New York Times’ Media Bias
As Tom Engelhardt wrote: “Noam Chomsky is a wonder. In his mid-eighties and still going strong, he’s the anti-Henry Kissinger. He has a must-read piece on how the New York Times covers American acts in the world from Laos to Cuba to Iran. You won’t see anything else like it.”…
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Strike (A Pose): The Union of Yoga | Yoga International
Not sure how my yoga teachers and friends who happen to be yoga teachers feel about this. Strike (A Pose): The Union of Yoga | Yoga International.
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Russell Brand: Prospect Magazine’s World’s Fourth Most Influential Thinker
To conservatives he’s written off because he is a comedian. To the dull he is just plain long winded and doesn’t look the part, so it must be a bunch of B.S. Though he has had written a few books, I’ve only read his latest one Revolution, which seems like…
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Montana does not like yoga pants. Me too! Err, wait.
God knows I am not a fan of yoga pants, but I believe the Montana lawmaker who wants to ban them is not referring to men’s yoga pants. He wants to ban the ones he can stop looking at! http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/02/montana-legislator-wants-ban-yoga-pants
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Seattle Socialist Council Member Kshama Sawant Responds to Obama’s SOTU
This is late, but still pertinent. I wish Sawant was president!
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Minimalism: my personal Ideals
About a year ago I read Everything That Remains by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus. A book based on the wonderful, if not original, idea of cutting out all the unnecessary possessions and focusing on the really important thinks. People have been advocating living a frugal, simple lifestyle to magnify the…
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The Minimalist’s Approach to Your Wardrobe
Use a “Minimalist Wardrobe” to simplify your life. Something I can add to my Resolutions for 2015!
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Thinking of Ferguson
From a fellow DSA member and blogger: Dr. Martin Luther King Race Riots and the Other American
BURGER SCOOT 