I Don’t Wanna [Insert Undesirable Activity]

Hello, neighbors!  I look like like shit right now.  I'll own it. Well, technically that was on Halloween, when we got a snowstorm here in Chicago.  HO HO HO.  In any case, I'm gonna launch into Whiny Adolescent Mode, because I need to vent, and that's the easy way to do it.  This is why …

Dirty Words & Gilded Rage

"If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it." -Woodrow Wilson, 1913 I've long considered myself at least a liberal, and at most a radical.  Tearing off layers of my propagandized view of politics and policy, the wool glued over my …

Other People’s Words (11/18/10 Edition)

Albert Einstein: "Private capital tends to become concentrated in a few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of the smaller ones.  The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private …

Voices in the Bewilderedness

Voices once wore such authenticity were so much more interesting than now battered by pan-flash phrases flattened by a surplus quantity of superfluous topics Will you listen now can you hear? Voices designed to rake  in millions in monies and earn the attention of myriad lifetimes summoned in studios strewn with candies news-desks that could float …

MSNBCUP

I just got pissed off at MSNBC, finally, for the first time.  (I don't watch Morning Joe, and otherwise I've only been mildly bothered.)  But on the Ed Show, which show's existence I was psyched about, after listening to Ed Schultz on WCPT for several years, there was a phone poll wherein the question and …