Rep. Cynthia Davis, Hungry Kids and Marie Antoinette

Generally speaking, I don’t follow local politics too closely.
This little nugget, however, has made national news, shaming the state of Missouri, and helping to further cultivate the image of the backwards state so many people already perceive it to be.
Unfortunately, these people are not altogether wrong in their assessment, thanks in part to the recent contributions [...]

Pete Sessions, Socialism and Barack Obama

As big a political junkie as I am, one would think I’d be past the point of being shocked when a politician says something stupid.
I’m not.
Representative Pete Sessions (R-TX) believes Obama is both driving the stock market down and unemployment up on purpose.
He’s quoted in today’s NY Times as saying that Obama “intended to inflict damage [...]

Recession: Are We Working Too Much, Or Not Enough?

By now, there are few of us that haven’t been affected by the recession in some way.
Personally speaking, while I have managed to remain employed by a company that still offers great benefits and good pay…
… Even I am feeling the burn.
Most recently my company froze our salaries, offered a “voluntary” reduced work schedule, reduced our medical coverage, and slashed [...]

Bonuses, Bailouts and Buttheads

Like many of us, I was pretty upset to learn about AIG’s decision to pay out more than $165 million in executive bonuses.
Much of the funds are retention bonuses for employees that are no longer with the company. All of it is going to reward AIG’s top decision-makers for decisions that were…
Well…
… Shitty.
The recipients of [...]

Stimulus, Schools and Sanford

A few weeks ago (on February 24, 2009), Obama addressed the nation in front of a joint session of Congress.
It was a moving speech, focusing primarily on the economy, and the challenges faced by America today.
There were a couple of attendees at the event that are not politicians, but rather, people whose personal stories touched the President [...]

Clocks, Socks and Glocks…

By Andrew Heaslet, Coordinator, Peace Economy Project
What do clocks, socks, and glocks have in common? Socks, underwear, oil in a car, batteries in your smoke detector, Mr. Rogers’s cardigan sweater, and the time on your clocks on the evening of March 7th – what do these all have in common? These are all things that [...]

Beyond War: A New Economy Is Possible- Part III- Militarism

By Andrew Heaslet, guest Author, Coordinator, Peace Economy Project

Militarism
 
“I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear annihilation… I believe that even amid today’s mortar bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Nobel [...]

Beyond War: A New Economy Is Possible- Part II- Racism

 Part II of Andrew Heaslet’s (Coordinator, Peace Economy Project) talking points, dealing with Racism.
 

Racism
 
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
            Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963
 
While the election of Barack Obama represents a giant landmark in overcoming racial barriers, Racism is far from behind us.  The income and healthcare gaps illustrated above [...]

Beyond War: A New Economy Is Possible- Part I- Poverty

Send America to Work, Not War
Someone who I thoroughly respect is a man by the name of Andrew Heaslet. He is the Coordinator for the Peace Economy Project, a non-profit organization that advocates the reduction of military spending in favor of social and infrastructure needs. He has written some very interesting talking points, which I will [...]

Racism, Chimps and the New York Post

 

Huh.
What an insensitive piece of shit the New York Post ran today.
How can anyone, considering this country’s racially static climate, think something like this- depicting two white police officers shooting a damn chimp- and then tying it into the first piece of legislation our BLACK president is credited with passing- is anything other than ugly, [...]