"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its … Continue reading It Bears Repeating
Category: politics
Fund the Future with Middle Class Tax Cuts and Higher Corporate Taxes
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is calling for a Green New Deal. Kamala Harris is calling for tax cuts that actually cut taxes for the middle class. Everyone wants to know how we're going to pay for these things. I've been kicking some ideas around today in partial conversation with a friend. A Green New Deal will probably … Continue reading Fund the Future with Middle Class Tax Cuts and Higher Corporate Taxes
Romney’s Lebowski Problem
This is from March, 2012. I’m reposting it today because everyone seems to think Mitt Romney is going to save the world from Donald Trump. Or something. Source: Romney’s Lebowski Problem – Chris Cocca
Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong – The Huffington Post
This is a really long read by Michael Hobbes, and there are many quotes I could pull in the hopes that you'll read it. I'm going with this one, because the issue with our food supply is, in my opinion, the biggest public health crisis we talk the least about: "Since 1980, the obesity rate … Continue reading Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong – The Huffington Post
Heroes and Villains: Brian Wilson, Donald Trump
I just watched the 2008 Kennedy Center Honors for Brian Wilson. For reasons that are easy to guess -- his life story, his genius, his music -- I am sobbing. For other things, too: for him, for us; in gratitude, in fear. A decade later, neither the country nor the world look anything like they … Continue reading Heroes and Villains: Brian Wilson, Donald Trump
When Clark Kent Quit the Daily Planet
"I was taught to believe you could use words to change the course of rivers -- that even the darkest secrets would fall under the harsh light of the sun...But facts have been replaced by opinions. Information has been replaced by entertainment. Reporters have become stenographers. I can't be the only one who's sick of … Continue reading When Clark Kent Quit the Daily Planet
Joan Didion and Betty White
This is from some time ago (early 2015). Last week, before I knew she was the new face of Celine (also, before I knew was Celine was), I shared Joan Didion's "At the Dam." I was taught this essay, and I teach it. Not because Joan Didion is fashionable at the moment, but because it's … Continue reading Joan Didion and Betty White
