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People need protection from the elements; they don’t need 4000 square foot McMansions.

People need 3 square meals a day; they don’t need freezers stocked with designer ice cream.

People need to be able to get around; they don’t need 300 horsepower in the SUV.

People need good health; they don’t need “access” to health insurance.

And finally,…[Read more]

would hungry, destitute people have to wait in cars to get food.

This is wrong on so many levels, that you have to wonder in awe at the system that put these conditions into place.

Religion is bullshit.

That’s why I gave it up and retired.

The biggest of the owls.

You got to grab ’em by the head, that way, when you fly off, the stink trails behind you.

He’s always been an idiot (a right wing tool), but now he has graduated to the class of demented idiots.

My bad, I was thinking Beto, not Beta.

I wonder if they will be “gig workers” too.

“What am I doing here with these assholes?”

His move to Tucson is simply a ride off into the sunset, to get away from brutal New England winters and enjoy some sun in his final days.  Leave him alone and read his writings from times past.

One can never see the common man’s perspective when one’s nose is up the ass of the well-to-do.  From that latter perspective, it all looks the same.

Isn’t it a requirement for our modern culture, that to be acceptable to the unwashed masses, that you have to have a TV presence?

The alternative to oligopoly is community organized and community run activities.  There is no guarantee that such an activity won’t be targeted for capture by some of the oligarchy, but it makes that capture more difficult, and continued community organization of the day-to-day activities of life means that the oligarchy has a never ending task…[Read more]

I’ve never waded through so much bullshit, all in one article.

“potential German-Russian-American-Ottoman alliance that had begun to take form by the late 19^th century”  you forgot Martians in that alliance.  You know, the ones that great social scientist H. G. Wells warned us about.

“and Lord John Maynard Keynes who have a long t…[Read more]

Put him to work, @Satan, Tenpenny is as dumb as a bag of hammers, so he’s a shoo-in for Hell’s construction crew.

Most people couldn’t pick where our troops are deployed or NOT deployed out of the following list:  North Korea, Namibia, Nigeria, Neptune, Narnia, Nizhny Novgorod, Nebraska, Norway, Novaya Zemlya, New Guinea, NGC 1277, and Novorossisk.

Which 5 have troops stationed there?

There’s something wrong with the usual business dealings of the criminal class?

Instead of 9 asses plopped on a bench, suppose we have a roster of 30 justices.  Every time a case gets appealed from a Circuit Court of Appeals, randomly pick 9 names off the roster.  Case gets sent to the 9 names, and first they decide whether or not to hear the case.  If more than 5 justices agree to hear the case, then all 9 are empaneled to…[Read more]

No, Trump’s going to take a few more laps around the parking lot to make the journey seem longer.

The U.S. has always been a fascist country, even before Il Duce defined what fascism was.  As the Industrial Revolution was playing out, it was playing out for capital, not the workers.   All the decisions were made as to what is best for capital, an…[Read more]