An Economy of Human Sacrifice?
Link – what it means to have an economy that demands we die for it
Continue ReadingMonth: May 2020
Welcome to the USA
LINK – a place where bad ideas never die – from OpenDemocracy Inequality is good. Religious freedom trumps public good. In the Civil War, the wrong side won. American exceptionalism. The myth of redemptive violence.
Continue ReadingSTOP: An Imagined Letter from Covid-19 to Human
from Jack Weltner, by Kristin Flyntz STOP: An Imagined Letter from Covid-19 to Humans Stop. Just stop.It is no longer a request. It is a mandate.We will help you.We will bring the supersonic, high speed merry-go-round to a halt We will stop the planes the trains the schools the mall s the meetings the frenetic, hurried […]
Continue ReadingCovid, Koch, & Corpses
Those who justifiably rail against Trump’s refusal to mobilize government resources to fight Covid-19, miss the underlying cause of his distractions and inaction. He became and remains president only because the Koch network mobilized its vast resources to support him in the election, to staff his cabinet, the White House, and the Supreme Court with […]
Continue ReadingMailing it in in this Time of Coronavirus
Two months have passed since I’ve been to Walgreens, but this morning with my mask on I made it to the pharmacy window (now plexiglass protected) for a prescription. On my way along the aisles I spotted another item I was running short of—manila mailing envelopes. I have postage stamps at home, but envelopes large […]
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