We all know about Barilla CEO Guido Barilla's icky homophobic comments, and the half-hearted apology.  It looks as though Barilla's 25% U.S. market share is about to suffer a noticeable drop as a result.  What now ( Read more... )

First, go read this, the founding statement of Refuse and Resist, from 1987. While references to apartheid, Iran/contra, etc., date this manifesto, the ideas behind it are sadly, more true than they were 24 years ago ( Read more... )

[I didn't think these up; they're taken from the eponymous Facebook group ( Read more... )

[Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen is a Republican. If I lived a few miles to the southeast I'd be in Democrat Rush "My Congressman IS a rocket scientist" Holt's district ( Read more... )

I posted a note to my Facebook account identical to my previous LJ post. My friend Jim posted this response, which I'm reprinting here with his permission [emphasis added]:

At first, I was baffled by the extreme degree of passion that every person is putting into this debate. I mean, sure, the current system is bad, but it was put into place to " ( Read more... )

I've been getting into a lot of debates about health care recently. If you're planning on engaging, know this: Any argument you make based on any of the following absolutist premises will be summarily ignored, because I believe down to my core that every one of these statements is false, at least to some nontrivial extent ( Read more... )

This time I didn't try to start anything. I posted the following Facebook comment:

Are your eyes glazed over from slogging through HR3200? Then take a break, go to the library and check out "Preferred Risk" by Frederick Pohl and Lester Del Rey. That's where we'll end up if private insurance continues to have its way with us. (Oh, and shame on you ( Read more... )

This is mostly between me and someone I went to high school with. Now, I burned out as many brain cells as anyone else who was a teenager in the 70's, but you can draw your own conclusions about this guy.( Read more... )

And here's the best explanation I've seen of how they don't and how that stupid meme got spread around in the first place, and how it was so effective when the Plantation Republicans in the Senate used it to tie union-busting to a bridge loan for the Big Three that would have been only 2% of the size of the $700 billion do-whatever-you-want-with-it ( Read more... )

What can I do for my country ( Read more... )