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Howard Zinn, historian and author of The People's History of the United States, said that he was planning to vote for Obama. A few days ago, he emailed Nader admitting that this was a mistake. He now pledges to vote for Nader Gonzalez. He said that because he lives in Mass, a sure thing for Obama (58% to 34%), he is voting for Nader and encourages ( Read more... )

Fuck Bill O'Reilly man! I just watched this terrible "interview" with this Iraq Veterans Against the War dude, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGAibec9JsA He's always gotten my blood to boil, but I never really articulated why until tonight when someone wrote, "Bill is the ( Read more... )

  The debates used to be run by the League of Women Voters, but they had too much dignity to cave to the shameful arm-twisting of the Bush and Dukakis camps. Thusly the Commission on Presidential Debates was formed. The commission is headed by Frank Fahrenkopf, a former head of the Republican National Committee, and Paul Kirk, a former head of the ( Read more... )

The only emails I get from these folks are advertising shows, which is fine with me. I usually don't even open them, but this one was titled, " A request to help out a proven good neighbor"  I thought it might be a friend in legal trouble or a guy with no insurance who had a serious accident. So I opened it. Below is their email and my response. I ( Read more... )

Of course your reaction is to question the validity of the source, and to become defensive when you are accused of being a corporate slave or whatever. I definitely would have reacted the same way when I was around your age. (After all I supported George W. Bush for president in 2000; I was 16. And by the way, this has nothing to do with age, there ( Read more... )

So I was watching the evening news with my parents and they do a 2 second blurb on the RNC protests. It was something along the lines of: "police were forced to use rubber bullets and gas to control a group of SELF-DESCRIBED ANARCHISTS!." The news caster says it like it's armageddon. They show a clip of a few dudes in black clothes and masks ( Read more... )

fuck you, every single one of you. I would like to excommunicate myself from this shitty planet and all of its greedy elites. I would love if everyone worth $10,000,000 or more would just drop dead.

That's really all there is to it. I mean I can't stand canned laughter and all, but this episode hit real close to home ( Read more... )

It's funny being a teacher. Really intense emotional things happen all the time, but you don't really understand how intense these things are until later. I was watching Yellow Submarine with my favorite 4th grade class 4C. There's this girl, Caroline who is very kind; she's a popular girl with an unbelievable personality, but she's a total sweetie ( Read more... )