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Bruce is 46 year-old father of one, stepfather of three and grandfather of two, who left a lucrative law practice at a large national law firm to work, advocate and write for social justice and equality and find a way to incorporate a spiritual life into the material world. He now struggles along to make a decent living while holding true to his deepest principles in Portland Oregon.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 10, 2011 Prepare For The Next Backlash
Republicans are likely to react to recent losses around some of their favorite issues with even more aggressive voter repression
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 10, 2011 Person Corporatehood
We are being trained to become more like corporations even as they are being handed our rights.
(6 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 6, 2009 Sotomayor and the White Reverse Racist Judges
The corporate and right-wing media don't want you to know that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is accused of reverse discrimination in the New Haven fire-fighter case even though the case was equally decided and upheld by white judges.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 15, 2008 The Lament Of The Goose
The goose that laid the golden egg wishes we had better learned her teaching.
SHARE Thursday, October 9, 2008 Friends with Reagan; Pals With Terrorist?
The list of prominent business people, educators and Republicans on the Board of Directors with Barack Obama and bill Ayers should embarass McCain and Palin . . . . I said "should".
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 7, 2008 We Won't Even See it Coming
A prose poem on the rage of the masses and their feared (or is it hoped-for by now?) uprising. With the important last line included this time!
(9 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 1, 2008 The Lost Art of Graciousness
When did graciousness become weakness and mocking derision become strength?
(23 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 9, 2008 What Would We Do To Jesus
Todays' right wing political Christians would not recognize Jesus if he walked up and kissed them on the forehead.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 3, 2008 Palin and the Christian Persecution Syndrome
Using discussion of Palin's religion, and especially her daughter's pregnancy, to rally Christians to vote against their liberal attackers
(13 comments) SHARE Friday, May 16, 2008 A Poem To Feel The War
Because our government censors the reality of war from us, we must rely on our own imagination to understand the true suffering in Iraq and Gaza and Afghanistan and . . . . If we do not face and try to feel the pain we cause, we can never generate the empathy needed to stop this and all other and future wars.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, May 16, 2008 A Rant on Democrats Selling Out
On the depravity of arguing the entire future of a vast, diverse Republic hangs solely on appealing to less educated, older, lower income, white, blue collar workers of the Appalachian spine.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, May 9, 2008 On (Not) Being Taken For Granted
The only way Democrats could take the nomination from Obama and give it to Clinton would be to take the real Democratic base for granted. Let's make sure they know they cannot.
SHARE Friday, May 2, 2008 A Crisis Like No Other!
Have we really come to this? Wars, famine, global warming, unaffordable food and fuel. And the news is covers what a reverend said and a politician did or did not say.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, April 25, 2008 Dear Democratic Party: Please Don't Become Racist
ANY talk of denying Barack Obamba the Democratic nomination because working class whites won't vote for a black man is racist. Stop it and squash it. Now.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 13, 2008 The Day A Brilliant Man And A Bad Man Both Told The Truth
America ended when a brilliant man told a powerful truth and the powers that be were outraged and shocked and when the most powerful man in the world, a bad man, confessed to a war crime no one cared.