Your Key to Success: the Wonderful, Wonderful World of 401 (k) s!

Gee, isn’t it great to realize you are standing on the cutting edge of an Exciting New Era?

Boy, Thomas Friedman’s recent op-ed column in the NY Times on Labor Day [sic!], “It’s a 401K World” really… Read full post »

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn), co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, laid it out very clearly and succinctly recently:

“Why Cutting Social Security Benefits Is Such a Big Deal”  (http://www.ourfuture.org) 4/16/13

"To understand, here’s some context. American fami… Read full post »

(well, maybe it was only a suicide gesture like slashing your wrists, which usually isn’t fatal)

“The Grand Bargain is about showing the world we can hurt people, so they will know we are serious.”

Dong Johnson, “Elite Pundit Deficit Frenzy Just Like ‘Run Up’ to… Read full post »

Did't we have an election last fall?

(Oh, never mind. Sorry to ask such a naive question.)

I think we did but I guess it just didn't matter.

Both political parties agree: The poor must suffer more for the incompetence, recklessness, and crimes of the banks, hedge fund managers and… Read full post »

[repost from one year ago: little has changed, so no evision needed]

Annual observances of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day tend to focus almost exclusively on the struggle for juridical equality for southern blacks. Since blacks in the south can now vote, serve on juries, use the public libraries,… Read full post »

The following “news story” appeared in a local libertarian rag under the headline “Delta’s Deitch Haus restaurant closing due to bad economy.”

Pete Miller made his decision to close the restaurant in July, long before the reelection of President Barak Obam… Read full post »

Why did Dan lose his mind? Why did a friend turn into my worst enemy, acting self-righteous while spewing mindless rage, falsehood, hatred, malice, and sadism? Why did evil come to dominate his being? I certainly never experienced anything or anyone like this my lifetime. I hope I never do again.… Read full post »

...and maybe his soul:

I’d never had any friend, much less a good friend, turn savagely on me as Dan did, and for no evident reason. After many years of friendship, he showed me a sadistic, snarling, malicious, psychopathic side of his personality I had never seen before. He acted like… Read full post »

Such a seemingly impressive resume Dan recounted over the years! Earning a B.A. and an M.S. in social psychology at the University of Utah, starting a Ph.D. program there but dropping out short of completion in defense of more humanistic values. He studied under some distinguished professors, big nam… Read full post »

There were many side stories and back stories to Dan’s colorful personal history. One was his father, who had been a professional Texas Rassler during the 1930s, then a sports promoter, then a peddler of organic, holistic, magical “herbal cancer cures” (supposedly learned from nativ… Read full post »

Dan died this week, I just learned. He was someone I met back in the 1980s, someone whom I once considered a best friend, a great stimulus, a major influence on me, but who, without apparent reason, eventually became a monstrous enemy, causing me to order him off my property and… Read full post »

With only a little more display of psychopathology the DMV renewed my license in the end. I was down there as instructed by 8:30 Monday morning and sat outside the closed office alone until I was joined by a Korean War veteran who said this was the seventh time… Read full post »

I came home Friday evening more enraged, aggravated and agitated than I have been in a long time. Now, Saturday, let’s see if I can calm down enough to give a factual account of recent events.

I suspected my eyesight would be an issue in renewing my driver’s license when… Read full post »

(This is a slightly revised repost of something I originally posted on my old Word Press blog The Edge of Cedar Mesa,, 01/17/11)

“What is government if words have no meaning?”

“The government is implying mind control and brainwash of the people by controlling grammar”

&nb… Read full post »

Voter suppression is kicking into high gear:

As expected, the Republican plan seems to be working like a charm:

*voters are being forced to stand in line as many as nine hours to vote in heavily Democratic areas of Florida, as planned—check.

*Harassment and illegal… Read full post »

 "You don't have anything to say about it!"

These observations & reflections have been rolling around in my mind for some time.

You saw it clearly in Romney in the final debate. Every time Obama tried to point out that Romney was contradicting what he’d been saying all… Read full post »

This is a response to nilesite's Open Call to step outside & photograph the first thing that catches your eye, then write a little about it.

It's a very short story: I saw the truck nestled amid the autumn leaves of the river willows and thought it looked like it… Read full post »

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( I am unable to get the You Tube video to display but you can click on the URL and be taken to it)

There is a story about this on big Salon today and another on HuffPo, as well as on many other venues. The You… Read full post »

Mitt Romney said of "the 47% who are dependent upon government" that "My job is not to worry about them" because "I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." 

What does  “taking personal responsibility and care for your life” mean… Read full post »

By now you know that voter suppression is an issue close to my heart.

Did you hear John Lewis speak to this issue tonight at the DNC?

“I’ve seen this before. I’ve lived this before,” he said. In a massive understatement, he said, “Too many people struggled, suffered,… Read full post »

Colorado Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler:  Protecting Citizen Participation in Politics--and Covering up for Convicted Felon Doug Bruce:

I first heard this story over Labor Day Weekend on Colorado Public Radio (CPR). “It’s a pretty sweet deal. Three men, facing thousands… Read full post »

Colorado’s Republican Secretary of State, Scott Gessler, elected in November 2010, is proving himself a closet Tea Partier, using the power of his office as overseer of elections (and using taxpayer money) to advance the Tea Party agenda. If he had been honest about that ag… Read full post »

How Can You Not Connect the Dots?

*33 states now have new voter ID laws. In a wholly partisan Republican initiative, photo ID requirements have quadrupled since 2011.In a coordinated partisan effort; GOP operatives have introduced 180 such bills in 41 of the 50 states, all since 2011. According the B… Read full post »

Energy freezing...don't physicists say matter is frozen energy?

Human labor requires and expresses energy....

Anything in motion embodies energy...

Earth and sky sharing energy, making a connection...

More human labor, which is wha… Read full post »