Wear Clean Draws  (because there’s 5 million ways to kill a ceo)

home sick with stomach flu, catching up with email from the Demands Working Group. They’d decided upon a Jobs for All demand, gotten support from other working groups such as the Jobless Working Group. Still, for a second time, the proposal was voted down.
What I’m not grasping is why they, the Demands Working Group, doesn’t […]

Archiving so I don’t have to search the lob archives. It’s in response to a question asked by Corey Robin about anarchism which is copied below. I didn’t feel like cleaning up the >s so I left them, making it difficult to read. AIA.
Dear Corey,
I’m not an anarchist either, but I’m puzzled by the question. […]

I have been amused, disgusted actually, at the way the mainstream media has completely demurred on the topic of how they were shut out of reporting on events at Zuccotti Park. Sick fuckers. I’m hoping Matt Taibbi takes that shit down, the way he took down down the scum a decade ago when he wrote […]

i got the impression that recent debates had lbo were often being had elsewhere and spilling over to the list. dunno. how else to make sense of the repeated claim that criticisms of those insisting on demands - usually in the form of clarifying what appeared to be misrepresentations of this or that thinker or […]

I watched what I could on teevee but I had no idea it was this big. The media sure as shit is doing its best to downplay the numbers. SF Chronicle still describing it as 1000s of people in the streets. If you haven’t seen it, it’s the helicopter footage of the march as they […]

After relating a rather sketchy history of consensus-based democratic struggles, wending their way through the u.s. and beyond, from SNCC to OWS, making the point that even when there seemed to be no movement, all of it nonetheless converged, I was given this line, “Well dug, old mole,” something Marx supposedly wrote about how a […]

answering the question, “why did the u.s. invade iraq?” has always seemed simple to me. Always thought the neo-cons told everyone why.
1. when you’re the biggest bully on the block, you have to remember that everyone hates you and wants to take a swing.
2. since everyone hates you, you can’t trust anyone, not even allies. […]

Has anyone else noticed the prevalence of signs, tweets, blogs, updates that say, “the 99% is finally waking up” or “Americans have been asleep,” or “Wake up!”
I find it interesting.

A long time ago, someone at a discussion lists was calling me a sophist. Being a philistine, ha ha, I had no idea what that meant. I asked Carrol Cox at LBO. We had this really long ranging discussion, as well as a related one about why, in academia, it is probably a really bad […]

Well, that’s not entirely true. She was a douche, though a considerably chastened douche.
I’m so thrilled! Our Occupy group had an opportunity to represent on a local NPR affiliate and the two guys repping did such a great job. But what is really awesome is that the usual bunch of retrograde assholes did not fill […]

wah wah wah. I know. I have a lot of nerve ignoring this place only to show up after months and let off giant steaming pile of rantage! I have been laid up with a cold, off the bike and out of the gym, and thus way more time on my hands even in spite […]

this was also originally published a few years ago, 2007-01-01 00:51:11
reposted for archival purposes. It’s actually a repost of something written for the Bad Subjects zine by an anonymous writer. Don’t know if it’s still online but the link to the old issue is included below.
Dedicated to RenEv, you spitfire, you. heh.
Actually, the title is, […]

*rolls eyes to back of head*
good grief. i get back from vacation and get to read romaniticizing bullshit about breastfeeding on the loblist! capitalist pigs hate breast feeding, yanno? coz it combines pleasure, sex, and food and that combination is subversive, doncha know. ferfucksake!
when i was little, i used to sit near my mother’s feet […]

REMARKS MAKE BY LARRY KRAMER AT ACT UP/HealthGap DEMONSTRATION AGAINST OBAMA
THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2010, ST. REGIS HOTEL, NEW YORK CITY:

Obama is not my president. Obama is not your president. Obama does not like AIDS. Obama does not like gays. Now what are we going to do about it? Because we continue to […]

I want to write, individually, to everyone who has helped me, been willing to talk about the call for commentary itself, who took the time to do a careful reading and make awesome stylistic suggestions (I’m looking at you Chuckie!).
For now, it’s going to be a group hug, a collective thanks.
Throughout this project, […]

i’m so bad. i’m delighted to have the house to myself for 8 whole days! it’s not a happy reason that R is gone: his dad just got out of the hospital. But i’m so bad because when I learned he’d go there for over a week, I was happy to be alone!
i just went […]

looking for something in the archives of the old blog. i’m thinking i’d like to eventually teach a course for the workers justice center we are getting off the ground here. i want to call the class: your employer hates you. i knew i had used that phrase before, so i looked it up and […]

btw, one of the things I heard in this conversation about boycotts which prompted me to ask about historical analyses of the effectiveness of boycotts was this.
Well, to set it up. We were discussing concrete activities we could do now. Things to accomplish. Everyone had to name just one small thing we, as a group, […]

I went to the the closing ceremony for non-violence activities in honor of Martin Luther King tonight. It’s part of an area nonviolence group’s initiative to raise non-violence awareness. The activities begin on Martin Luther King’s birthday and end on the anniversary of his assassination.
A fellah I will call Walter invited me when I […]

lord. what a wacky, pissed off muddle of a rant!
I initially wrote this on 01/01/2007
When I started blogging, my first posts were on race. I think they are lost to the winds from the switch from one host to another. I was on about Bill Bennet as I recall. Then I did a series […]

and melissa harris-lacewell = idiot tool.

good lard save me from the essentializing crappola! brownfemipower is writing about working class men and i just want to scream. i really dislike the implicit assumption that, somehow, it is only working class men and women who are owned by corporations, that what it means to be working class is to do manual labor […]

this was originally posted on the old blog, 2006.05.02. I’m reposting it because it is too long to post the whole thing on a discussion list.

I’d mentioned to piny that one of the problems with the attacks on “trans politics” (sic) was that they argued that, as long as transfolk weren’t being denied their formal […]

Doug Henwood tried to mock Carrol Cox for chiding people about using logical fallacy in their discussion of Gore Vidal. Doug wrote:
Life isn’t about people. It’s about Historical Forces.
Yeah, it was a dumb comment because it really has zippo to do with Carrol’s theory of society. It has a lot more to do […]

Michaels chapter on religion is, I think, a skeleton key to what he’s about. He seems to have taken to heart whatever he learned in rhetoric classes and spent a career elevating all the reasons why you shouldn’t use ad hominem into a theory that has all the analytical subtlety of the cudgel you […]