Mark Morford: Greetings from “the angry left”
Hey, peeved hippie! Stop your hatin’ and learn to love the (McCain) bomb! Aww, just look at you. You seem a little upset. A mite peeved, even. Heck on a hot pancake, I’d even go so far as to say you were downright angry, given how I can see the ripples of general upsettedness and …
Today: Amy Goodman and Two Democracy Now! Producers Unlawfully Arrested At the RNC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE www.democracynow.org September 1, 2008 Contact:Denis Moynihan 917-549-5000Mike Burke 646-552-5107, mike@democracynow.org ST. PAUL, MN—Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was unlawfully arrested in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota at approximately 5 p.m. local time. Police violently manhandled Goodman, yanking her arm, as they arrested her. Video of her arrest can be seen here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQ Goodman was …
Wednesday: “History and More”
It’s done. Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee for president. The emotional impact snuck up on me like a stealth bomb. Maybe because of all the drama with Hillary and Ted Kennedy. Probably because I never thought it would really happen. I came home during the delegate roll call vote and it hit me what …
Tuesday: “Wake up America”
The powerful speech by Dennis Kucinich at the Democratic National Convention wasn’t included on much of the media we saw and it should have been. Wake up America. This is not a call for you to take a new direction from right to left. This is call for you to go from down to up. …
Speaking of growing old …
This post’s title refers to something George Carlin said in the great video I posted earlier today below. I was going to post more of the updates on my own health, but this comes first. Alec posted this on his blog yesterday: Friday, August 22, 2008My aching heart I’m sorry if I was a day …
“Yes We Can” – The George Carlin Remix – by Jay Smooth
Thank you Jay for this excellent homage to the great George Carlin and his commentary on censorship and growing old: For the great one. One of the biggest influences on my understanding of everything, and his legendary “7 dirty words” court case happened at the radio station where I’ve spent half my life. One of …
John Phillip Sousa and the infernal machine. And much more!
A talk by Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law. I know this is long, but it is fascinating and entertaining. At about 8:13 minutes in there are three cool video clips to illustrate Mr. Lessig’s point. 19:07 minutes – filmed Mar 2007 – posted Nov 2007 by TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design). …