2011-03-10 20:46
Yesterday in Wisconsin: Republicans strip unions of collective bargaining rights. Having previously pushed the bill as a budget balancing measure, the assembly removed all provis… Read More
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"Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day to day living that wears you out." --Anton Chekhov
2011-02-27 21:17
We stand with the workers of Wisconsin in their efforts to preserve their right to collectively bargain as unions.
Super busy, more on the way! &hell…Read More
2010-09-26 16:46
I'm still around! The past two months I have been blessed with a bounty of work, leaving little time for anything else. I've been regularly passing out around nine at night, whet… Read More
2010-07-22 02:08
Bear with me on this one. It's a bit of a rant.
I was having a conversation with a dear friend of mine over beer the other night that drifted into something of a lament over the stat… Read More
2010-07-14 22:43
Midsummer malaise creeps in with transmissions of baseball, accented with the intermittent barking of distant dogs and closings of doors.
Add in to the sensory of experience an occa… Read More
2010-07-08 18:00
In these trying times, it is even more important to have a strong community to help push forward and manifest the solutions we desperately need. But more than ever, it seems that real… Read More
2010-06-08 22:59
Your voice from a life past
comes back to me uninvited every so often
In songs I don't know the names of
In the smoke of a cigarette clinging to the summer haze,
Tracing out your features.
A… Read More
2010-05-19 00:20
Time and time again, I've tried to give our criminal justice system the benefit of the doubt. I'd rationalize that most incidents were caused by singular macho (racist) jerks with something… Read More
2010-05-14 22:03
I'm finally getting the pictures up from the No Nukes march. It was a 15,000 person colorful, international turnout.
It was among the most vibrant political rallies of which I… Read More
2010-05-02 02:47
This weekend, the Great Recession came close to home in a shockingly literal way. While the poor and jobless are everywhere and a good portion of the rest of us hang on by mere threads… Read More
2010-05-02 02:25
Union Square, NYC.
Photos taken from the event.
March for Worker and Immigrant Rights
It is astounding to me that in a city like New York, and in a country like the US where (except the r… Read More
2010-04-23 21:37
Many critics of socialism point to it's impracticality. They say, since people are above all self-interested, socialism is not viable. Then, a true example of how conditions in the USSR dete… Read More
2010-04-21 15:24
Everyone who opposes health care reform should have the experience of going to the ER before stating that our current system is not broken.
And I haven't even received the… Read More
2010-04-12 22:37
Please re-post and forward widely.
Print copies available Read More
2010-04-02 00:53
The Friday after, there was a crisp chill in the air, the milder cousin of mid-winter stillness.
The general rumble of humanity echoes through the dark silence. The window is cracked, perh… Read More
2010-04-01 01:49
There is something comforting to me about cooking. It is astonishing how it has the potential to engage so many of the senses, at least the basic five by my count.
I'd venture to say… Read More
2010-03-27 14:25
Give me the strength to reject the lie that I cannot do anything to change this planet, as it is a living hell for women.
Let me make waves in the stagnant pool of twenty first century Ameri… Read More
2010-03-27 13:29
Stop Violence Against Women March/RallyNoon today, Union Square, NYC. It's hard to gage the turnout on these types of things before hand; Unfortunately weather is often a factor, and it's 30… Read More
2010-03-25 00:52
This past weekend I had the privilege of working/attending this year's Left Forum. Also in attendance were those everywhere along the spectrum from democrats to socialists to anarchists… Read More
2010-03-20 04:00
Part III/ Il Capitolo TreThe night grows thick.When I was young and captive, these were magic hours. Headlights would fill the dew patterns on the window panes, reaching out to crawl across… Read More
2010-03-20 04:00
Part III/ Il Capitolo TreThe night grows thick.When I was young and captive, these were magic hours. Headlights would fill the dew patterns on the window panes, reaching out to crawl across… Read More
2010-03-19 03:29
My head aches the hard ache of thawing from an icy February gloom--Perhaps, even more tired than the sun's jaundiced afternoon rays."Hurry up now," the lady at the laundromat says, "I'm gonn… Read More
2010-03-19 02:13
Part One/Il primo capitoloShe's singing. Ivy growing up to the window, that kind of scene.Dark beauty, I'll make you my dying wish. But what I don't have isn't mine to give...Come to my… Read More
2010-03-19 02:13
Part One/Il primo capitoloShe's singing. Ivy growing up to the window, that kind of scene.Dark beauty, I'll make you my dying wish. But what I don't have isn't mine to give...Come to my… Read More
2010-03-19 00:00
Bourbon and wine in lonely times.I've given up waiting for a saviorI'll try my hand, feet, and sideat being one for someone else.Is it enough for me to mop upLoneliness, Cradle a damaged hea… Read More
2010-03-14 04:24
Religion has been used throughout history to suppress women. Or, to be less politically correct and perhaps more accurate, men use religion to suppress women.What a better way to kill the t… Read More
2010-03-14 01:56
Those different gods that drive my world,like a schoolbus full of 6.5 billion fourth graders,doesn't care what we are up to, so long as no one is hurt.Your God is intrusive, nit picking over… Read More
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