So the Romney campaign has released its energy plan. It looks a lot like the things envisioned by Reagan a political generation ago–lots more drilling on federal land, no nod to conservation or global warming, subsidies for alt energy like solar and wind killed. It’s different from Obama, but not markedly different–Obama is hardly a greenie, […]
So I’m in Richmond, Virginia, heart of the Confederacy, where locals will vocally remind you that it was The War of Northern Aggression. And the tour directors at the Jefferson Davis Mansion get quite exorcised when you mention that it wasn’t ‘servants’–it was slaves. Other than that, locals are fairly friendly. And the local chain […]
I’ve been thinking about what I need to say about my Dad, Donald Arthur Kinch, who passed this morning. I don’t have it in me to give the bromide ‘after a long illness’ or ‘due to natural causes’. He’d been having a hard time for well over 10 years, as had my mother, who passed […]
Sorry. The excitement of life is such that I haven’t posted in awhile. There are some things going on in my life that I need to attend to, and maybe I’ll post about them in coming days. We’ll meet back here shortly. Stay safe.
Most incredibly, Obama’s attorneys refused to assure the court, when questioned, that the NDAA’s section 1021 – the provision that permits reporters and others who have not committed crimes to be detained without trial – has not been applied by the US government anywhere in the world after Judge Forrest’s injunction. In other words, they were telling a US federal judge that they could not, or would not, state whether Obama’s government had complied with the legal injunction that she had laid down before them.
Lest people think I’m a supporter of President Obama, I should point out that neither of these candidates of the duopoly should get our votes. Romney’s taxes would decline under 1% should Paul Ryan’s tax plan go through the House. But Obama has also played fast and loose with the use of drone aircraft for targeted assassinations, a practice that was roundly condemned during the Church hearings some 30 years ago.
My story, which has been reported on relatively sane pages (the UK Guardian) involves a lawsuit against the implementation of the NDAA. In a recent court hearing, US attorneys working for the administration refused to confirm or deny that Americans had ALREADY BEEN SUBJECTED TO indefinite military detention since the act was signed last December. Here’s the quote from the article that should matter to you:
Keith Olbermann Homage–Mitt Romney.
In honor of Women’s History Month, I thought I’d give you some women’s history from a few decades back. It was 1983 and the world was closer to nuclear confrontation between the US and the Soviets than it had been since the Cuban Missile Crisis. More than a few of my writer friends have become […]
Last night, Kathleen (with the help of Charles Eli Carr and Phil Rosenberg) performed my play A GOOD DAY 2 PIE on WBCR’s Sex and Politics radio show. It has already been put on podcast here! A GOOD DAY 2 PIE is a play about dirt, bugs, seeds, and Monsanto. we tour. We wanna help. […]
This is from the Occupy May Day protest. Kathleen Stansell organized a marvelous Maypole dance in Union Square. And thanks to Bill King, who shot this video.
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 