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To see the shock troops of Democratic party hackdom trying to shut down Sanders for espousing what were once the party’s bedrock philosophy and principles?  Before it decided to become largely a copycat GOP,  a trompe l’oeil version of itself.

It’s time for her to take in LOTS of performances by the San Francisco Ballet. She’s long veered between the dynamic progressive and the political hack. We see which side is winning. How dare she tell anyone, particularly candidates from … Continue reading →

“A leader is someone who figures out where the future is going,” Bill McKibben writes, again on Common Dreams, “not someone who joins the party once it’s underway.”

as they attack Bernie Sanders, someone voters actually are enthusiastic about. For Common Dreams, John Atcheson describes “A Confederacy of Dunces: The Democratic Establishment’s Assault on Sanders Begins.”

So now Bloomberg wants to be president. What is it about the insatiable power-hunger of plutocrats? What’s he going to run on? Rising poverty and homelessness rates in NYC under his tenure? Closing St. Vincent’s? Big tax abatements to his … Continue reading →

Are we surprised? Now we start returning more troops to Iraq, as Obama presides over what looks like a full re-jiggering of GW Bush’s catastrophic foreign policy. The fact that so-called Defense Secretary Carter can even mention phrases such as … Continue reading →

She is the illogical but inevitable culmination of the mostly-GOP right-wing’s war on literacy and culture. So if you don’t think that the defunding, defamation, and neglect of the arts in this country has ominous and wide-ranging implications, think again.

in the case of Hillary’s foreign policy. As Adam Johnson writes at Alternet, “there hasn’t been a major foreign policy decision in the Middle East she pushed for that didn’t end up being a disaster both at home and the … Continue reading →

So you belly  over to the counter to order your mocha-choca-laca with extra-skim only-slightly frothed soy milk, and the barista tells you there’s only enough for a demi-tasse worth. You see, as National Geographic reported in the September 2015 issue, … Continue reading →

I have a problem with men on ballet’s artistic staffs telling women dancers to lose weight. Whether the man is gay or straight, it rankles me because it takes the objectification and abstraction of the female form just a bit … Continue reading →