I totally support the public schools … but!!!!!!!! What happens when the best of parents meets reality? If the schools are SO bad for other people’s kids that they merit serious reform, how can a parent send her own kids to the same schools? Emanuel To Send Kids To Private School Mayor[...]
Posts Tagged ‘radical left’
November 7th, 2011 - 8:25 am § in America
BERKELEY BLOG: Lessons for the Occupation from the Tea Baggers
What the Occupy movement can learn from the Tea Party Lawrence Rosenthal, executive director, Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements | 11/3/11 | It’s important to look at the Occupy Movement in the context of the Tea Party movement.Both were utterly unexpected and both were game-[...]
October 30th, 2011 - 11:36 pm § in America
Pizza is Better Than Tea: Support the Pizza Patriot Protest
We may be returning to the sixties, though the cause is a bigger one. Some of you may feel, as I do, that the streets are not your form of free speech. How else can you help? Here is a simple answer .. PICK UP YOUR PHONE AND ORDER FOOD! Big Mario’s has been […][...]
October 29th, 2011 - 11:35 pm § in America
Is the Tea Party Joining the OWS?
A Letter from Montana, by Jerry Straka . The Boston Tea Party was a protest against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies. It was a protest against corporate interests condoned and imposed by “dynastic” government.[...]
October 23rd, 2011 - 6:10 am § in Politics, The Ave Scene
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: A good deed for today!
UPDATE: Repost of a post on the UW AAUP listserv by Ed Clark, Prof. of Immunology Although the AAUP has expressed support for the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, unfortunately only a few of us have been able to show up at rallies behind the AAUP banner has been. Most of us are very busy, yet[...]
October 21st, 2011 - 10:05 pm § in America
What to call the Wall Street Protesters?
The Fauxies seem to be having trouble coming up with an epithet as bad sounding as the “Tea Bagger” epthet that now seems stuck on the radical right movement. Terms like commie, pinko, fellow traveler seem dated in this post evil empire world. So, I have been giving this some thought an[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Should you shop at Home Depot?
There are signs that Romney’s campaign is in serious trouble. While he is raising money at a good pace, as the single moderate running for the GOP, Mitt Romney is getting very few small donations. Last quarter, Romney had 55,000 individual donors. By contrast Ron Paul has 100,000 [...]
Worship of Steve Jobs.
On last Friday’s “Real Time,”Bill Maher painted Steve Jobs as “not a corporate type” only to minutes later accurately note, “Apple makes their s–t in China. And they could still make it here and make a big profit, but they make more of a profit by making i[...]
People of color should not vote with everybody else!
Majority-minority? by N in Seattle at HorsesAss has a great post on the effort to increase a “majority minority” Congressional district south of Seattle … you know where all of those black, yellow, brown, people live unless they are Korean, Indian, Lummi, or Chinese. The proponents[...]
Darcy Burner, Nerd?
Darcy and I are both “Harvards.” I am thrilled that my fellow alum is bright, committed, and wants to be a Congressman. BUT Darcy needs to do something about the “her image” thing. When Darcy ran for Congress before, Congressman Reichert made an issue … with lots [...]