Benghazi?  IRS abuse? AP investigation? Telecom wiretaps? Drone surveilence? On and on, the abuses are uncovered. ..........   "Trust us, we're from the Governement, we swear;  if you register your guns, we won't come for them...

If you can point me to a place I said or acted like words have no meaning, happy to review & see if a retraction in order.

Words can be important even if sometimes "sticks and stones..." might be a better reaction, and sometimes people fall to the fainting couch over some...

Congress really does not wish to accomplish anything!

Just trip up the dems whenever you can and spend millions on messaging.

The good news?

If Mitt had won, all sorts of things would be in the works.

And all of them very very bad!

Batcrap Crazy Republicans are like bad pennies, they keep turning up.  Rick Scott is floating Allen West's name for Lt. Gov. replacement.  The last Florida Lt. Gov. had to resign. ...

Its ok to binge. Even if its not your best stuff just sit down and write! We can all learn a lot from this guy.

Yes. You still have to put in your time when the current's against you, but you also have to take advantage of your productive moments and make sure you get everything you can while you can. You have to make space for that productivity.

I think what I object to is the industrial,...

HAHAHAHAHAH

Eggsactly my point!

I support all the things you are talkin about, and voted twice for George W. Bush fore I realized he was a liberal. So then I joined the Tea Party and scraped that Bush/Cheney 04 sticker off my '84 Voyager.

I think you forgot though bout the...

Jeepers.  I'm the one who used genocide, and I am not friggin' wedded to it for the reasons AA articulated.  And my second-guessing of automatic isolationism does not in any way depend upon the existence of a genocide per se. 

I am glad, however, that you...

Another "give me a break" moment. If someone uses the word "genocide" they're using semantics to try to make an event heavy. Killing 70,000 people during an uprising is typically not "genocide" - especially if killed by both sides - nor is it "kindergarten...

   Yes, but excuses that don't involve your people getting massacred are less convincing as mitigation. The excuse for the ethnic cleansing of Germans after World War II (the Germans did terrible things to us) is better than the excuse for Nazi exterminations(they've done us no...

There was a major grand larceny case in NYC for "cleansing money" that finished up last week--article mentions that fortune telling alone is just a misdemeanor. I...

An example of genocide - when all the thousands of residents of a city are surrounded and captured by armed militias, and every last one is executed and buried in a mass grave (in an attempt to cover up the crime), as happened in Srebrenica see my link below.

• This pokies this is actually the most effective that generally there...

Interesting. I stand corrected. Illegal in NYC too, apparently.

I wonder how the film was pitched, as in the fashion seen in the beginning of Robert Altman's The Player.  My guess is something like "It's Dallas meets Moulin Rouge...I hear Robert Downey Jr is very interested in the Jay Gatsby role..."

(1) Kosovo, a part of a disintegrating Yugoslavia,  is in Europe. Syria is in the Middle East.

(2) Kosovo is a little over 4,000 square miles, Syria over 71,000, and well over 10 times the population.

(3) The Kosovo intervention was supported by NATO nations and armed forces,...

p.s. Also similar: the KLA, not always a group deserving of great sympathy.

But what if those same 70,000 belong to a specific targeted sub-set of the Syrian population?  Rather than being 70,000 out of 20,000,000; it becomes something like 70,000 out of 190,000.

Back in the 20th Century I read an interview with a playwright discussing his latest play - I can't remember the name of it, but over the course of the play chairs begin to pile up in a bar or restaurant, each one representing someone who had died AIDS.  What I remember from the...

x2 too.   Great piece.  I'm putting my money on you at the next Moviecritic-mania, where I'm sure you'll put a figure four leg-lock on Richard Roeper and clinch the title with a literary submission hold.   I wasn't particularly interested in seeing this...

Thank you for the very good points.  My income doesn't let me shop organic foods like I would like too.  So I have searched out a way to provide some good quality foods with a share of a CSA farm and doing some growing for myself.  It is important to have choices. ...

We agree on something after all. I did not get your tongue-in-cheek joke. But that's OK, sorry I missed a chuckle but I can handle it and I don't care whether or not you explain it.
  As to your assertion that I used "The language of the anti-union corporate elite"...

Fleecing is the biggest part in all this.

hahahah

Boisvert doesn't actually provide the math, but his article is probably a retread of Math Lessons for Locavores, a 2010 Stephen Budiansky NY Times OpEd, which was itself a retread of Food That Travels Well, a 2007 James McWilliams NY Times OpEd. In 2010, Tom Philpott, and...

Think of a hedge fund invoking haircuts & shears. It's not that the hedge needs growing, unlike other assets - it needs trimming, shearing, fleecing, shaving points.

Actually there are. There are numerous state and local laws against practitioners of "psychic arts." They are mostly unenforced unless large sums of money are involved.

So here's something that I think offers the kind of stuff that teaches and to your credit I found it by poking around on the links you have above.   I don't understand the whole uploading thing but here is a link to a Youtube interview with a Professor...

I'm confused.  Mr. Ruiz, the author of the first article, started out with an undocumented attack on "Big Labor".  But then here Jordan states that unions only contribute around 3 percent of the budget for Solidarity Center, suggesting that Big or Little or any Labor is...

As a boondoggly public-private partnerships that uses more volunteers than paid staff, the Brooklyn Grange makes more sense than the Georgia Aquarium which occupies 13 acres of prime real estate and is filled with a whole lot of salt water and a bunch exotic non-edible sea creatures, some...

There no laws against bullshite. 

I once had a long interview with a west village psychic who is, just based on her apartment a paper multimillionaire and based on her clientele (a lot of Wall Streeters) a liquid millionaire as well. She hit me with an amazing cold read.  Just stunning how much she was able to take from...

I've never seen a million bucks, so it must not exist.

People have scammed a million bucks so it must be all a hoax.

Not everyone who experienced "spiritualism" paid for it. Not everyone involved in spiritualism has been discredited.

But it's probably more...

I knew you were gonna post this. I see a post about a tall, dark man in your future.

Interesting that even after they confessed their hoax, the spiritualist movement didn't die.  People are always looking outside themselves for solutions or satisfaction and there are plenty of folks willing to help them out--for a fee.

None of your business?  That's an odd way of looking at it.  I guess you could say that about most of the stories that come our way but here on dag we tend to make them our business.

I've never understood the appeal of psychics.  I've never understood why...

My local community radio station did a birthday show featuring Robert Johnson a couple of days ago.  They played some of his recordings and talked about his life.  It is nice that you added him to your blog today. 

I have been urban gardening for the last 9 months and enjoying it.  I also followed last winter the local CSA farm's newsletter.  This year I plan to join and have been saving each month because it is expensive ($600) but I can also break it down in payments.  But it is...

That guy really is a hero and like you say most folks like him are ignored by the press.

And he really is a good, good guy!

Here is the history of Kate and Margret Fox the 2 sisters that started the Spiritualism and Medium Movement.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_sisters  It is pretty interesting.

If you have been watching Mr Selfridge on Masterpiece Theater, they covered some of this psychic showmanship that went on in 1910 last Sunday.  It was in it's hayday then started by 2 young girls with a toe that clicked loudly under the table.  They would talk to the dead and the...

Good rant.  These ladies have courage to take on the enemy too.  The Benghazi Chant is backfiring.  The repeal of ACA will also backfire next year.  Now I am looking forward to your next blog.  I listened to NPR this evening and they were talking about the fellow who...

One of my favorite TV series was (is per Netflix) Medium!

I just love that show.

Reality is another matter.

I recall some guy named John Edward. That idiot would just translate ghost messages to members of the audience.

Finally there was this strange woman who would...

The mouse that roared. I suppose his bellowing means the Israeli strike was very effective.

Thanks, Oxy.  

Even sans trousers,
Truman could gave 'em Hell; no 
doe could pass that buck. 

Harry Truman said:

Don't nap with your trousers on,

it messes musses them up.

He definitely has a bee in his bonnet on topic. (Whether reasonable or not, I do not presume to judge.) If you plug this into Google:

"Alberto C. Ruiz" AFL-CIO Solidarity Center

you get...

You know Resistance, Benghazi is like some instrument used in a mystery TV show.

This humiliation will go nowhere.

I like Hillary.

I would vote for her without any hesitance in some election.

But I tell you, look at this Warren woman!

She is clean, she has a...