50 years ago, Philly erupted -- and the fuses are back again
Tomorrow (Thursday) marks the 50th anniversary of the worst outbreak of civil unrest in the modern history of Philadelphia. The three-day Columbia Avenue riot in the predominantly black neighborhood of...
View ArticleFast food, Ferguson and "heightening the contradictions" in 2014 America
Cross posted at Attytood:Supposedly, the term "heighten the contradictions" has its origin in the writings of Marx (Karl, not Groucho) and some of his later 20th Century acolytes who believed that the...
View ArticleHow To Get Away With Murder...in Ferguson
Cross-posted at Attytood:The shorter version of this week's news out of Ferguson is basically this: Tin soldiers and Nixon coming. The grand jury investigation of the shooting of teenager Mike Brown,...
View ArticleHow Robert McCulloch indicted himself
Cross-posted at Attytood:Each and every minute felt like an hour. The first bulletin on Monday that the Ferguson grand jury had reached its decision -- and that it would be announced that night -- came...
View ArticleTorture and Police Killings Cut From the Same Cloth of Injustice
Cross-posted at Attytood:America's snooze alarm went off again this week. Slowly, fitfully, people are starting to wake up from a long national slumber. Our psychic clock radio switched on this time to...
View ArticleBen Carson's foreign policy guru wants U.S. troops to convert world to...
Cross-posted at Attytood:In 2003, a two-star Army major general, Robert Dees, retired after a decorated 41-year career as a soldier in which he became a top officer in the legendary 101st Airborne...
View ArticleSo that's 'democratic socialism'? Count me in!
Cross-posted at Attytood:First, quickly, some exciting news. My major project -- the one that caused me to be absent for much of October -- is quickly coming to fruition. It's an Amazon Kindle Single...
View Article5 things I learned writing an e-book about Bernie Sanders
Cross-posted at Attytood:Just six months ago, I was dreading the 2016 presidential race. After all, the Beltway pundits were all telling us the same thing, that it was a done deal -- the dual of the...
View ArticleMore Americans support Bernie than The Donald -- but he gets 1/23 the TV...
I've been working a day schedule this week, which I am very much not used to. Among the discombobulating things is that I've been exposed (sometimes with the sound off, which is how I prefer a lot of...
View ArticleWhy the Bernie Sanders Revolution Is Not Televised
As a writer, I never expected to fall in love with the 2016 election. As recently as 6 or 7 months ago, I fully expected that America was on a collision course with dueling oligarchic dynasties -- Bush...
View ArticleMeet the fossil-fuel-loving, hedge-fund billionaire behind Hillary
Cross-posted at Attytood.Hillary Clinton hasn't exactly been a lion in winter during her slow march toward the Democratic nomination. To be sure, her narrow win Saturday in Nevada seems to shore up her...
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"Bodies upon the gears": The 50th anniversary of 417 words to inspire today's...
Cross-posted at Attytood:When you think about the sheer volume of speeches that are delivered on any given day -- from state legislatures to Rotary Clubs to dingy school auditoriums -- the thing that...
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