Just finished listening to a remarkable press conference with Mack Rhoades, Athletic Director, and Gary Kinkel, football coach, at the University of Missouri on ESPN. Both supported the refusal of the university’s football team to play in this weekend’s game…
The Good: Announcement by President Obama to nix Keystone XL pipeline. Another victory for climate change movement. The Bad: We poured roughly 32 millions tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere this past year compared to 29 billion tons in…
Much of what I write is exploratory. It is a work in progress; an ongoing conversation with myself as well as readers of this blog. And there’s an explanation for this: I came to radicalism and the Communist Party in…
It isn’t something that a lot of people lose sleep about, and that includes me. But it bothers me when I see someone assert that the retreat of the working class, social democratic, communist, and people’s movement in recent decades…
The Good: John Boehner, Republican and House Majority leader, is leaving Congress. The Bad: Paul Ryan, Republican and even more right wing than Beohner, is the new House Majority leader The Ugly: Mitch O’Connell, Republican and Senate Majority leader, is…