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Salesmanship as Performance Art:I’d pay the guy for the show even if I didn’t buy anything.
Read More(Now there’s a headline that would have sounded weird 40 years ago.)Here’s what’s happening:FERGUSON, Mo. — Suddenly, everything has changed.The heavy riot armor, the SWAT trucks with sniper posts, the hostile glares: tonight in Ferguson they were gone.A stunning change in tone radiated through the suburban streets where protests had turned violent each of the…
Read MoreSo, a couple of years ago, the jiu jitsu on the Right about gun violence against blacks was the standard “We need more guns” panacaea that always comes from Gun Culture. Here’s the inimitable Ann Coulter issuing the standard party line: All would be well if black people went around armed to the teeth, ready…
Read MoreBut still the Obama Administration is doing nothing to give asylum to the desperate refugee population that the US, more than any country in the world, is responsible for creating.I hear the president is having a very restful vacation.
Read MoreNews crew tear gassed and their equipment dismantled.What’s interesting and creepy (to me as a blogger) is that as real journalists are harrassed and intimidated and arrested by the Glorious Democratic Police Army of Ferguson, the reportage depends on private citizen with cellphone, Twitter and Youtube. The problem is that a lot of this is…
Read More…protect the living daylights out of reporters and journalists who were typing very, very dangerously When our police state decides you are allowed to know what they are doing, selected State Information Agents will be permitted to repeat what they are told. Go back to your TV and shopping. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Read More…from the now completely incredible war party spokesmen McCain, Graham, and King, who again want to plunge the US into war in Iraq:If ISIS’ gains are truly an “existential threat” to the republic and our cities are about to “go up in flames,” why did these Republican hawks not demand that President Obama call back…
Read MoreI’M NOT SORRY! I’M NOT SORRY!
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