In These Times

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• • 19 Nov 07
  • 8:16 pm

  It's clear to me that Mr. Cosby is operating out of a deep love. It's not his responsibility to "come up with solutions." That responsibility resides with everyone, especially those who've never exercised theirs. That he would be so bold as to provoke this dialogue is in itself a tremendous gift: he could have chosen to avoid controversy, not make waves, and just watch from his position of privilege.

  Posted to Come on People! Bill Cosby is Right

• • 20 Aug 07
  • 8:04 am

  Where I live, the closest $tar-BUCKS is twenty miles from here, so it's catch as catch can. Mostly I grind my own and suck it down before I leave the house.

  Posted to Where do you go when you're fiending for caffeine?

• • 20 Aug 07
  • 8:18 am

  There is only one alternative. To borrow from Nancy Reagan: just say "no!" No to keeping the street value of drugs so high that people shoot each other over them. No to criminalizing an act that has no victims but the actor, and punishing individuals for their weaknesses. No to wasting millions upon millions of dollars on totalitarian right wing death squads overseas under the guise of eradicating drugs. No to the pharmaceutical companies whose main agenda is to prevent people from medicating themselves. No to the control freak Bible wielding maniacs who presume to proscribe the boundaries of moral behavior, …

  Posted to What is the best alternative to the War on Drugs?

• • 28 Jul 07
  • 3:31 pm

  Draft the rich.

  Posted to Should the United States bring back the draft?

• • 28 Jul 07
  • 3:23 pm

  There was a time when being a liberal meant you had a proud tradition of protecting the wages, benefits, and rights of working citizens of all races and creeds. Today's liberalism is more concerned with Mexicans than our own citizens. No matter the depression of wages and benefits. We can't get health care for our own citizens, yet all the Democratic Presidential candidates were quick to claim their health care reform plan would cover illegal immigrants. The Latino groups are quick to brand anyone who dares question the unfettered access to our country by this human flood as being racist. Even …

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