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2016-02-07 – This week Gov. Chris Christie signed into law a statute called the Water Infrastructure Protection Act. This law would fast-track the privatization of municipal water systems in New […]
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Til It Happens to You
2016-02-04 – I saw a disturbing video by Lady Gaga today. It’s called Til It Happens to You. It depicts several campus rapes and is sadly believable. I don’t get […]
Jumping On the Couch
2016-01-28 – We live on a corner. It’s a quiet neighborhood, but we live across from a school and a park. The park blocks the through-streets, so we do get […]
Best for the System We Have . . . Or Best to Create New System
2016-01-26 – Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor in the Bill Clinton administration has the best statement about what divides Hillary Clinton from Bernie Sanders: “[Hillary Clinton is] the most […]
All Come to Look for America
2016-01-21 – “Let us be lovers, we’ll marry our fortunes together.” Look, I’m a sucker for a song. And Bernie Sander’s latest commercial really gets to me. There’s nothing much […]
Give Fetuses the Right to Vote
2016-01-19 – There’s a mini-movement gaining steam to give the vote to 16 year olds. Sixteen year old voted last year in the referendum on Scottish independence from the United […]
“Voting Against Their Own Interest”—Is Victim Blaming
2016-01-12 – It’s easy to blame the victim. You see it all the time. Women are blamed for sexual assault. African-Americans and Latinos are blamed for police brutality and other […]
Minority Rule in the USA
2016-01-10 – Most people who voted in the 2000 presidential election know that George W. Bush was declared the winner in spite of the fact that Al Gore had more […]
Please Don’t Hang Up
2016-01-07 – I am a telecommuter. I work for a company that is located on the east coast, but I work in my basement in Chicago. I’m wired into the […]
Oregon “Protesters” Are Not Terrorists
2016-01-05 – EightOh9 thinks it is a mistake to call “militia” members who have occupied the headquarters of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon “terrorists.” I’m not saying that I […]
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