Spent the day cooking and cleaning, and am now waiting for folks to show up. It’s just been hot as hell here the past few days. BTW- Read Kay’s post on Wisconsin and the full DWS remarks at CNN, and it is clear that once again, I don’t know my ass from a hole in …
Archives for May 2012
This is fucked up
This just showed up as an ad on this page. A description on Amazon: An unprecedented tidal wave of racial violence is sweeping America. In more than 50 cities on hundreds of occasions in the last two years, groups of black people have robbed, looted, vandalized, stolen even raped and murdered. The reality is that …
Fuck war
For Memorial Day: (1) Paul Fussell: “Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.” (2) A post on the subject from Wonkette that I like. (3) Steve M is right: Chris Hayes is full …
Jourdon Anderson’s Letter to His Old Master: “There Was Never Any Pay Day for the Negroes”
Erik Loomis of LGM posted this on Twitter, and it just made my day. It’s a “Fuck you, pay me!” letter from Civil War soldier and former slave, Jourdon Anderson, to his former master. It’s beautiful: Dayton, Ohio, August 7th, 1865. Printed in the New York Tribune, August 22nd, 1865. To My Old Master, Colonel …
Open Thread
It’s that time.
Biden
Here’s Joe Biden addressing families brought together by the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, a non-profit that helps families and friends of deceased military men and women. It’s twenty minutes off the cuff about his experience with death and grief, and it’s riveting. I have to say that I’ve changed my mind pretty completely on …
Open Thread: Memorial Day
(Tony Auth via GoComics.com) Here’s to more picnics and fewer wars. But since this is a political blog, Adam Weinstein at Mother Jones has a list of “9 Progressive Vets to Watch in the Battle for Congress” — anybody here from any of these districts want to give us the local viewpoint? Should we be …