More raw food
Another raw food potluck last night. This one can be called smoothie night. Almost everyone brought some kind of smoothie. I didn't take notes and just naming the smoothie doesn't do it justice because raw food adherents are really into adding the so-called superfoods. But here are a few of the items shared. Jenn brought a green drink. In raw food parlance that means juicing green vegetables with maybe some fruit to sweeten it up a bit. She used lettuce and I think plums and probably some other ingredients. Diane brought a blueberry smoothie, which probably incuded a bunch of other stuff. Chris always makes chocolate bliss, which is raw cacao and about ten other superfoods. He also juices up some carrots, and puts some zip into the juice by juicing a little bit of ginger as well. And he conjured up an interesting pudding using coconut, papaya, banana (I think) and raw agave nectar for a little extra sweetening. You never know what will turn up at these events.
The reasons for the defensiveness and disarray of the Democrats and the aggressiveness and arrogance of the Republicans have nothing to do with either procedural obstacles or short-term electoral considerations. They rather relate to the intrinsic nature of each party and the differing roles they play within the US two-party political structure.
--Patrick Martin
As a political figure, Palin is also largely a media and right-wing concoction. Among her earliest sponsors and advisors were longtime Democratic Party fundraiser and Washington DC lawyer, John Coale, and his wife, Greta Van Susteren, the Fox News commentator. Coale, a Scientologist like his spouse, raised large amounts of money for Sen. John Kerry in 2004 and for Hillary Clinton in 2008. When the latter lost the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama, Coale switched his allegiance to Sen. John McCain and became especially involved in efforts to make Palin into a national figure. This is the incestuous character of American politics.
--David Walsh
Contrary to popular belief, Nixon was not primarily re-elected because of opponent George McGovern's ardent opposition to the Vietnam War. By 1972, a majority of the American voting public had grown sour on the war. The issue that Nixon rode back into the White House in an historical landslide (McGovern carried only Massachusetts and the District of Colombia) was busing.
--Stan Goff
I don't claim to know how valid the whole notion of mimetics may be; but then validation is itself part of someone's agenda. What I know is that American Suburbia is the most dangerous place on the planet, more dangerous by orders of magnitude than the highway from Baghdad to the Green Zone. It is a cyborg that eats thousands of humans every day, and thousands of acres of habitat, and that spews thousands of tons of poisonous detritus, and that it requires the political blood-meal of its own alienated residents to survive ... and nearly none of those residents is predisposed--given their enculturation--to accept the intellectual authority of Marx or Mies or Chomsky or Chodorow.
--Stan Goff
Big capital will support tax-lowering measures, of course, but it does not need to piss and moan about taxes with the tedious relentlessness of the libertarian. Big capital, with its ranks of accountant-Houdinis, just gets on with not paying it. And why hate a state that pays so well? Big capital is big, after all, not only because of the generous contracts its state obligingly hands it, but because of the gun-ships with which its state opens up markets for it.
--China Mieville
The reasons for the defensiveness and disarray of the Democrats and the aggressiveness and arrogance of the Republicans have nothing to do with either procedural obstacles or short-term electoral considerations. They rather relate to the intrinsic nature of each party and the differing roles they play within the US two-party political structure.
--Patrick Martin
As a political figure, Palin is also largely a media and right-wing concoction. Among her earliest sponsors and advisors were longtime Democratic Party fundraiser and Washington DC lawyer, John Coale, and his wife, Greta Van Susteren, the Fox News commentator. Coale, a Scientologist like his spouse, raised large amounts of money for Sen. John Kerry in 2004 and for Hillary Clinton in 2008. When the latter lost the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama, Coale switched his allegiance to Sen. John McCain and became especially involved in efforts to make Palin into a national figure. This is the incestuous character of American politics.
--David Walsh
Contrary to popular belief, Nixon was not primarily re-elected because of opponent George McGovern's ardent opposition to the Vietnam War. By 1972, a majority of the American voting public had grown sour on the war. The issue that Nixon rode back into the White House in an historical landslide (McGovern carried only Massachusetts and the District of Colombia) was busing.
--Stan Goff
I don't claim to know how valid the whole notion of mimetics may be; but then validation is itself part of someone's agenda. What I know is that American Suburbia is the most dangerous place on the planet, more dangerous by orders of magnitude than the highway from Baghdad to the Green Zone. It is a cyborg that eats thousands of humans every day, and thousands of acres of habitat, and that spews thousands of tons of poisonous detritus, and that it requires the political blood-meal of its own alienated residents to survive ... and nearly none of those residents is predisposed--given their enculturation--to accept the intellectual authority of Marx or Mies or Chomsky or Chodorow.
--Stan Goff
Big capital will support tax-lowering measures, of course, but it does not need to piss and moan about taxes with the tedious relentlessness of the libertarian. Big capital, with its ranks of accountant-Houdinis, just gets on with not paying it. And why hate a state that pays so well? Big capital is big, after all, not only because of the generous contracts its state obligingly hands it, but because of the gun-ships with which its state opens up markets for it.
--China Mieville