Ever since #OWS began, I have grown particularly attracted to Chris Hedges’ columns , often peppered with scathing observations about the professsionals who run and enable and tweak the systems that have led to the increasing inequalities and insane denials of the effects of “human progress” on all of our ecosystems. In our present day media environment, such scathing Continue Reading
Ross Douthat’s (@DouthatNYT) response to Bass’ response to his article on “Liberal Decline” sounds much like an “IS NOT”. The final paragraph could be construed by the outside observer as a good example of the “self-satisfied, self-regarding, all-too-American faith ” judgment he applies to the “Progressive”, “Christianity after the institutional church” he ascribes to Bass: But I feel like we already know what that Continue Reading
in this video, Chris Hayes talks about the way elites and their clubs stick together vs even the people they ostensibly are there to serve (priests in Catholic Church vs their parishoners, or the government and corporations vs thier constituents and/or customers). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDaFVjaZr7w&feature=plcp This is a good angle also for the financial system, and for a headlong dive into many Continue Reading
I asked Lisa Sharon Harper of Sojourners about her thoughts on the Occupy Movement, and she said something we don’t hear much amidst all the uproar about the “middle class” being under assault. While the economic figures about the shrinkage and stagnation of wages in the middle class make for a wider audience from which to garner movement support, what Continue Reading
I will vote for Barak Obama, but I have trouble these days calling myself a “supporter”. I explicitly deny that designation when it is suggested that I am. But I find it hard now because of the way he handled the banks, the way he has extended and built upon the “security” measures undertaken in the Patriot Act, and the Continue Reading
A post by Derek Penwell today has me going. I read it just minutes after comment replying in a series of push backs that Christian Piatt received about his series of posts on the God’s Politics blog about certain Chriatian Cliches he says should be abandoned. Of course, the users of these cliches came crashing in to question his Christianity, and one Continue Reading
This kind of blows their image as having Catholics on their side as well. The nuns represent the “live it out” segments of the church. Republicans, especially the right-wing chairman of the House Budget Committee who inspired the tour in the first place, are generally dismissive of their pleas http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/07/12614620-this-week-in-god This is what the GOP has been doing for 30+ years. Continue Reading
John Locke, the guy synonomous with “Reason” with revolutionary words “Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power,†wrote the philosopher John Locke, “they put themselves into a state of war with the people who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.†http://dgrnewsservice.org/2012/07/05/chris-hedges-time-to-get-crazy/
Whaley and other opponents of the mosque still say Islam is not a religion and should not be protected by the First Amendment. via Judge Tells Rutherford County How to Solve Mosque Case – Nashville Public Radio. Holy cow (no, that’s Hinduism 🙂 ) Murfreesboro Right Wingers still behaving like Right Wingers. Say Islam is just a “cover” for a Continue Reading