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...

I don't think you can make such sweeping conclusions based on one address. I haven't read much on Washington's views on tariffs but I do know he signed the first tariff bill on imported goods both to fund the federal government and to protect American industries. I'm not such an...

The ability to finance our fledgling government was done through tariffs and duties. George Washington nor any of our founding fathers would have approved of foreign countries undercutting American jobs, undermining the AMERICAN CITIZENS RIGHTS, to demand safe working...

Cromwell managed to wipe out a quarter of Ireland's population or more.

Pol Pot wiped out 1/7th of Cambodia's population, 1 million.

Mao Tse Tung killed some 20 million or more with his ironically named "Great Leap Forward" (off a cliff?)

We have pretty...

But I don't think he would agree with you on tariffs. Clue: a key takeaway from the Farewell Address is that free trade is both the key to a nation's success and to peace among nations and different peoples. Tariffs/trade protectionism is a tax restricting trade, like the taxes that...

What's going on in Syria is a violent, deadly power struggle. While not a bellwether, I believe Israel knows more about what is going on in their region than does the US, and if there was a campaign of genocide across her border, I have no doubt Israel would expose it to the world.

Lulu,

I don't know what role, if any, whatever it is that you call "Big Labor"played in the coup attempt in Venezuela.  But the problem is that neither do you or anyone else who reads the article you post by Mr. Ruiz in Counterpunch, and in particular this particular...

One of the major recipients of USAID monies in the Andean Region, which includes Venezuela, is the AFL-CIO’s international wing, the Solidarity Center.  The Solidarity Center was quite embarrassed in 2002 when the union it was working with and funding in Venezuela...

Michael,

You and I share a common upbringing in that sense.  When I was 17 I went to college at a time when we were wasted from Viet Nam and unlike my Dad I never considered the military.  But I had plenty of friends and classmates who did join and they did so because of...

We should have listened to George Washington, we should reign in the military industrial complex and quit being the policeman of the world; maybe, our nation would have the money, to care for it's people and prevent the enemies from within.

Hezbollah Threatens Israel Over Syria Strikes
By Anne Barnard, New York Times, May 9/10, 2013

...

If there was truly genocide occurring in Syria, an organized, deliberate plan to eliminate an entire population, do you honestly believe Israel, which came into being as a result of such crimes, would do nothing?

I don't believe so. Perhaps Israeli actions in eliminating missiles and...

Meet Xi Junior Dr. Lucy Chen, the Executive Deputy Director of the Institute for Global Health at Peking University in Beijing:

Why China is getting involved in Africa's health issues...

Bruce, I just ditched a whole, long reply to you because I thought, on rereading, that it was preachy and you don't need to be preached at.  Wieselthier, I respect a lot.  I get where he's coming from.  This, and I'll leave your bold, is a damning question:

Leon Wieseltier refers to Filkins' article when taking on what he calls the "cult of the exit strategy!:

A “senior American official who is involved in Syria policy” plaintively said...

I'll take my humblebrag on this one.  Eh, I'll drop the humble.  I liked writing this.

No, I don't have any idea how to get the three powers to agree on anything, except that it could be material that the Soviets have shifted on their insistence that Assad remain in control of the government.  Your point is well taken.

Michael,

I have to say this is a fabulous piece of writing, and very much appreciated.  I come out differently, sort of, and have tried to articulate where I'm coming from.   One quibble I have is that I don't consider my position to require adherence to anything a...

My son keeps bring me my old books; hundreds of them.

So I find some book I have not read in decades; The Apology or as this translator calls it The Defence of Socrates along with Euthyphro and Crito.

David Gallop notes in his introduction that the old...

Many conservatives like to cite the expression, "Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for the rest of his life." They like to use this expression to excuse themselves from giving a man a fish, but the moral of the story is not that we should be upset that...

Speaking of educating our young:

That’s Samuel’s essential quandary, and it’s the predicament of all Foreman characters. On some level, they’re always stuck in Philosophy 101, trying to figure out what’s real and what’s imagined and to express that dichotomy in a satisfactory...

I made my own breakfast because Mom and Dad left for work before I left for school.  Funny, that.

I do not believe we should intervene with military support in Syria. While we can offer a way to get to peace talks and negotiations, we cannot select sides. Both sides in this case appear to be very wrong. Each side will commit genocide against their enemy if they are in power.  There will...