I'm an old Pogo fan. For some unknown reason I persist in outrage at Feudalism, as if human beings can do much better than this. Our old ways of life are obsolete and are killing us. Will the human race wake up in time? Stay tuned... OpEd News Member for 907 week(s) and 6 day(s) 149 Articles, 2 Quick Links, 363 Comments, 5 Diaries, 5 Series, 0 Polls
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SHARE In support of this novel idea, the candidate should be committed to severing the financial connection between lobbyists and elected officials. Until this is accomplished, we cannot call our system of government democratic, or even republican. Until this is accomplished the only things that get done are the things lobbyists want done, like buying more bombs and missiles and cutting back on education and healthcare Saturday, November 9, 2024 | Full Article | Print Article
SHARE In the Attention Age, whatever captures attention owns you. Even if you ignore it you're robbed. Paying attention, on the other hand, is a pure gift. Saturday, November 2, 2024 | Full Article | Print Article
(10 comments) SHARE Kamala Harris can clinch this election with on simple statement, even, or maybe especially, at the last possible moment. Friday, October 11, 2024 | Full Article | Print Article
(2 comments) SHARE I had decided not to participate this time around. I consider myself disenfranchised by the paucity of candidates worth anything but billions of unearned dollars that could be put to better use, in the hands of people who ought to be serving long sentences. Saturday, May 25, 2024 | Full Article | Print Article
(1 comments) SHARE If J6 was "only a riot," campus protest encampments fall far short of a typical outdoor concert. On the other hand, if J6 was a violent invasion of the Capitol with the expressed purpose of stopping election certification, and oh yes, to "interrogate Nancy," and "hang Mike Pence," maybe it actually changed the cost-benefit analysis if not the context and meaning of public service... Thursday, May 2, 2024 | Full Article | Print Article
(3 comments) SHARE It's getting to be a lot of work to twist the narrative from "campus protests to stop the genocide" to "rising anti-semitism across campuses!" CNN is now explicitly comparing protesters to the 1930s Nazi Brown Shirts in prime time. Obviously, given whatever their "metrics" tell them to expect in response, they are confident that they can accomplish this with lies and police violence. Saturday, April 20, 2024 | Full Article | Print Article
(1 comments) SHARE NPR and Maher don't care about your right to speak freely; it's all about audience rights. An audience is not a right: it's a property, like NPR's audience, where NPR gets to say what their audience has the right to hear. What NPR's audience hears is optimized to gather and retain maximum attention. Journalism is going off life-support, and not in a good way. Tuesday, March 5, 2024 | Full Article | Print Article
(2 comments) SHARE If you didn't know when this article was written, you might think it was yesterday. I wrote it in 2014. The only apparent change since then is in the numbers of dead and dying children, whole families wiped out, and open declarations of genocidal intent by government leaders, and not only Israeli, but also those now asking for my own vote. Wednesday, February 14, 2024 | Full Article | Print Article
(2 comments) SHARE 18 U.S.C. 2441(a) Offense.-- Whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, commits a war crime, in any of the circumstances described in subsection (b), shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both, and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death. Saturday, February 10, 2024 | Full Article | Print Article
(1 comments) SHARE I haven't followed Carlson, or Putin for that matter. But in this lengthy and very candid interview, the contrast between two heads of state is so striking it bears more than a cursory glance. Wednesday, February 7, 2024 | Full Article | Print Article
(1 comments) SHARE Without a lineage of guided practice, only an impoverished artifice of distraction, deflection and denial remains. Jurisprudence, for instance, has been inverted and reduced to a fancy set of lock-picks and escape tricks. Friday, February 2, 2024 | Full Article | Print Article
(2 comments) SHARE Why should we believe this will stop, given a level of corruption that provides blanket impunity for live-streaming extermination of an entire people? It's a growth industry after all. Saturday, December 23, 2023 | Full Article | Print Article
(1 comments) SHARE Big business is so much bigger than business now, that the few economic models that ever made sense are all distorted. For instance, if there was a ceasefire imposed on just one of the ongoing foreign massacres (and there are at least three at any give moment), the "economy" would be in real trouble. But if people are homeless, unemployed, destitute and starving, the market doesn't even notice. Friday, November 17, 2023 | Full Article | Print Article
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Many Palestinians are being forced, by gunpoint, to leave behind their homes in northern Gaza and march down the road en masse as Israel executes its next face of ethnic genocide and forced population transport. Those walking have reported watching stray dogs eat the bodies of dead Palestinians Saturday, November 4, 2023 | Full Article | Print Article
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The dead are disproportionately infants and young children, blown to rags, buried under buildings, shot, suffocated, etc., while occupied, imprisoned, detained, surrounded, besieged, starved, orphaned and helpless. Saturday, October 28, 2023 | Full Article | Print Article
(1 comments) SHARE Some thoughts after a quote from French economist Andre Orlean, in a book by Howard Richards. I think it's about what happened to us when we invented money. Saturday, October 28, 2023 | Full Article | Print Article
(1 comments) SHARE The key may be the neurological correlation of behavior and perception. Modifying either what we do, or the way in which we understand reality, can shift our trajectory. But behavior modification is too much like trying to back a triple-tandem truck into an alley: instant chaos. On the other hand, modifying the way in which we see and understand our world brings whatever the hardwired correlate to that view, instantly. Wednesday, October 18, 2023 | Full Article | Print Article
(1 comments) SHARE This is what happens when the definition of leadership is being in front of a stampede. Sunday, October 15, 2023 | Full Article | Print Article
(7 comments) SHARE Netanyahu runs US foreign policy now. What happened to Zelensky? And who's next? Have they picked somebody in Taiwan yet? What will become of all those semiconductors? Saturday, October 14, 2023 | Full Article | Print Article
(1 comments) SHARE Some of these important films are free online now. But just reading the short synopses in this list may change your views on this critical issue. |