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 […]
*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 […]
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 […]
and melissa harris-lacewell = idiot tool.
after watching this administration do exactly as Glen Ford, Aldoph Reed, Uhuru, Anthony Kennerson, yours truly, and others said he would — reveal himself to be the rightwing shit that he always proudly said he was — i hope ppl like the blogger at reappropriate and people, like sylvia, who argued that obama was more […]
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 […]
My buddy Dwayne wrote last night to urge me to listen to Doug Henwood’s latest radio program. Here’s why Dwayne was kvelling: because the author basically gets at what I’ve called “assimilationist black nationalism” — of the sort featured in Lawrence Otis Graham’s _Our Kind of People_:
Hey, if you haven’t already done so, I recommend […]
FAIR’s on the case:
“Corporate media are largely cheering Barack Obama’s early appointment of Clinton-era centrists. Many of these nominees have a distinct record of support for the corporate-friendly NAFTA trade pact, gutting public assistance programs under the guise of welfare “reform,” and pushing various deregulatory policies in the financial sector (including the elimination of the […]
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 […]
“My community has a problem with homophobia, but we aren’t the only ones. African Americans are but 12 percent of the population. We have neither the numbers nor the power, given our history in this country, to disenfranchise another group. Blaming us for what is an American ill–as prevalent in, say, white Tripoli, Iowa, as […]
This is a good point, although Savage doesn’t make the conclusion I’m going to: It’s bigoted to expect queers to adhere to a certain normative model of what activism is supposed to look like, what counts as the right kind of activism, etc. I guess you could call it a kind of heteronormative bigotry or, […]
heh. cried in a good way both times:
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 […]
well, on the bright side, it’s just an event related bounce. whenever something important happens, opinions bump up. this is quite a bumpg of course but i suspect it’ll be back closer to the old percentages once things settle down.
Two days after Barack Obama became the first African-American to be voted into the White House, […]
At 11:38 AM 11/6/2008, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
i think it’s the way we fetishize voting and elections in this country,
isn’t it? that voting is actually doing something, and then nothing else is required? it will be interesting to see if they can hold it together. it
would pretty genuinely change american politics if they could, don’t you
think? […]
we had a discussion about whether people of color and others should vote in solidarity with people of color. Julio Huato and John Thornton (NDN) felt that this was important, that people of color and progressive whites support the struggles and wishes of people of color. my responses:
John T wrote: ”
The idea of standing in […]
because i have been irritated with otherwise intelligent, well read, keep-up-with-the-news, read -the-Economist-type people lately, i have been surfing around the archives looking for when our lbo discussions of the coming real estate bubble burst started happening.
they can be traced back to the first signs of a bubble in hot real estate markets in california […]
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/87557?utm_source=embedded_video
it’s a onion mockery of obama’s nice guy stance. it’s bullshit redmeat for all the kossacks who want obama to fight mccain and get mean. still, it slayed me.
“Black Agenda Report Senor Editor Glen Ford will deliver a speech to the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement’s annual Convention (September 27-28, 2008) on the topic “The Truth About Barack Obama”. http://www.inpdum.org/
http://www.blackagendareport.com/
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