Country Joe
Country Joe is releasing a two-disc live set tribute to Woody Guthrie. He was a red diaper baby, and “Fixin’ to Die Rag” by Country Joe and Fish was the anthem of the Vietnam antiwar protests. Yes, I was at…
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month March 2008
Tibet: protestors ‘shot like dogs’
Reports of Chinese police shooting protesters are coming from multiple sources now. Google News and YouTube have been blocked in China. All journalists have been thrown out of Tibet by the Chinese government. But the repressive, thuggish Chinese government isn’t…
The 50 most powerful blogs
From the Guardian.”>From The Guardian. Among the familiar tech and political names are blogs I’d never heard of, and they definitely appear worth exploring.
Bear sold for $2 a share
Bear Stearns has (had?) 14,000+ full time employees who owned one-third of all Bear Stearns stock, presumably much of it in retirement funds where they were not allowed to sell. Thus, thousands of people, many almost certainly not wealthy, just…
Blockade the IRS
The venerable War Resisters League plans to blockade IRS offices in DC on Wednesday. For at least this one day — March 19, 2008 — we need to create a disturbance in the smug complacency of the IRS/Pentagon money-axis.