A stirring lineup of speakers and 100,000 Americans are currently at the National Mall celebrating and continuing the March On Washington that took place 50 years ago. Watch the live video feed here.
How is it that gerrymandering is legal? It is in essence, the power to corrupt democracy. I certainly understand why many politicians would want gerrymandering to continue to be legal but neither they nor anyone else can argue why it is not anti-democratic.
If you think the thinking and policies of the GOP are worse today than ever, imagine what bills Republicans in Congress might come up with in five or ten years.
What's more extraordinary is that this incident was almost entirely peaceful!
While the Mega-Rich Businesses are being "outed" for election tactics that intimidate, some small businesses are doing the same thing - though not necessarily for the same reasons.
Who but someone who hated our government would try to assassinate the elected officials in it? Who but someone who hated huge swaths of America would try to assassinate those in the media they see as not speaking for them? Who but an American would touch both bases?
We Americans are being very wasteful with our natural resources of emotional energy. This is causing a slew of problems affecting our environment including adding a great deal of additional CO2 into the atmosphere, pollution of political discourse ...
Being that I'm God, I hear everyone's prayers...even some I'd rather not (Sarah, you know who I'm talking about). Last night I heard this one prayer and I just had to blog about it.
Now, in order to keep Deity-Worshipper...
Probably not but in another amazingly corporate friendly decision a Federal appeals court struck down the FCC ability to prevent Comcast from punishing it's own internet users. The court vacated a 2008 "net neutrality" ruling that guaranteed users...
We are stardust, we are golden
we are billion year old carbon
and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden
- Jonie Mitchell, "Woodstock"
Ferrets are more determined than they are bright. Case in point being my own pet ferret, Rosie....
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