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

and melissa harris-lacewell = idiot tool.

with apologies to Eric for being totally Hegelian in this :)
At LBO, Michael Pollak wrote:
True, and that was a great editorial to post. But I think both of you are missing a key linguistic and conceptual asymmetry here between right and left, which the left has no interest in curing, but which if we […]

yeah, revolutionary gardening ought to fix this! via Lou Proyect:

Now, before I go any further, I want to take a moment to speak directly to the people of Iraq.
You are a great nation, rooted in the cradle of civilization. You are joined together by enduring accomplishments, and a history that connects you […]

cleaning up my email and came across an inquiry from a reader which i’d somehow missed. at some point, i’d written this:

“Because, remember: socialism is about condescendingly sharing *your* sandwich, not about asking why the other guy doesn’t have a sandwich to begin with. fuck.”

that was a snide comment about a thread on the LBO […]

Labor pained: Labor sec. not on econ team
Labor’s low profile in the president-elect’s transition is striking because of unions’ vital role in the general election campaign.
read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15972.html

Barack Obama wasted no time bowing down to his Wall Street financial backers and war-mongering advisors. His cabinet selections represent the same old politics of imperialist wars of plunder abroad and police containment policies against the African and Mexican communities here. It could not be clearer that Obama is, as the Uhuru Movement sums up, […]

Anthony’s keeping a list of all the ways obama continues to tack to the right or undermine claims made in the primary particularly. Here’s another one:
Later Emanuel responded to a question on the Employee Free Choice Act,
a measure backed by organized labor but strongly opposed by business,
saying, “Let me take your question and go somewhere […]

Doug Henwood asked of Andy Stern, why he thinks that the Obama administration is going to give a bat’s eyelash about decent health care, a query posted to a piece from The Note:
Doug asked: from The Note - will someone ask Andy Stern what he hopes to gain by
associating with this gang?
The Note:
Pressure to move, […]

hee hee. back in Florida the *spit* progressives *spit* have quickly declared their next plan of attack is to take care of a couple of democrats that have “given us problems lately”. One is, of course, Joe the Bomber Lieberman.
I’m thrilled to death that the kossack progressives *spit* are going to get one of the […]

every single time someone speaks re the dem nomination race who does so by pointing at republicans and wanting everyone to hate republicans more than the shits in the democratic party, i want to puke on their shoes:
June 3, 2008 interivew with David Sirota:
AMY GOODMAN: David Sirota, you talk about conflicts of interest within the […]