“We used to have fifty to sixty wetbacks to pick tomatoes.”
This is great. The Republicans spend months during their primary season in 2012 just excoriating immigrants, especially those they call …
Monthly Archives: March 2013
An Artificial Vibe
That’s how a young man described the reportage out of Newtown after the massacre there. Reporters can make various kinds …
Same Sex Marriage: Social, Legal, and Religious Factors
I’m going to wade into the issue of same sex marriage for the same reason I wade into other ones: …
Conspiracy Theories
Try out this one by Tom Mullen: Anti-libertarian nonsense: Those government roads And this one by Priscilla Jones: Americans forced …
Tenth Anniversary of the Iraq War
Ten years ago, many commentators said, before the war even started, that going to war with Iraq would be the biggest strategic blunder we had ever committed. When you look at current politics in the region, from Damascus to Tehran, you can see that they were right. We have never made a bigger mistake, and we will not recover from this one.
Initial Assessments of Catastrophic Events
Competition among news organizations to break a story is intense. You heard it here. Fox News gives Ohio to Obama, and …
The Truth Will Out
“… truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long; a man’s son may, but at the length truth will …
See Something, Post Something
We have technology that citizens can use to alter the balance of power between free citizens and tyrannical government. We have to organize ourselves to use this technology, to constrain and publicize tyrannical behavior. We can’t let ourselves fall under the dominion of a police state if we can prevent it. Ubiquitous video recordings of government behavior can help. Every government official should know that what they do and say when they interact with citizens can find its way to YouTube in a matter of minutes.
The surveillance state has to come under surveillance.
City of Complicity
I came across a post I wrote in October about Dallas’s Love Project, where school children made posters on the …
The Jeffersonian 