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Speaking Ill of the Dead

February 20, 2016 · by · in campaign 2016, History, Police and policing, Protests, tax policy for the 99%, Uncategorized · Leave a comment

SCOTUS judge Antonin Scalia passed away last week while on a vacation trip in Texas. His holiday was a freebie from a certain John Pointexter, who (not coincidentally) had business before the Supreme Court. It appears to be a canned quail hunting experience that brought Scalia to the resort. If memory serves, that’s the sort […]

An open letter to Hillary Clinton

February 12, 2016 · by · in campaign 2016, History, Uncategorized · 2 Comments

Dear Ms. Clinton: My name is Daniel Kinch. I’m a lowly leftist blogger. Worse, I am the simple artist–I sing, I dance, I perform the obscure agitprop play. I have been writing about the primaries and  I haven’t exactly been friendly to your campaign. But I’m a realist. I don’t think you can be elected, […]

Thank you, Donald Trump

December 9, 2015 · by · in economics, History, Protests, unemployment · 1 Comment

I’ve noticed a big drop off in one sort of Facebook meme lately. Although lefty and progressive people are still posting funny videos of presidential candidate (and continued GOP front-runner) Donald Trump, these have been replaced in large part by serious, sober-sounding analysis of what to do if he becomes the GOP presidential candidate. Specifically, people […]

Economic Free-fall mode

August 22, 2015 · by · in climate disruption, economics, History, Labor, OWS, Protests, tax policy for the 99%, unemployment · 2 Comments

On Friday, the stock market (Wall Street and the rest of the world) was reeling after oil prices tanked to less than 50% of what they were in 2010. This after news that China’s stock market was kept afloat only after the central government rescued it. There’s lots of room left for markets to fall. […]

War Wimps and Donald Trump

July 22, 2015 · by · in History, Protests, war crimes · 2 Comments

The world has now been bombarded with the ‘debate’ over presidential aspirant Donald Trump’s trashing of the Vietnam war record of John McCain. That fight (for me at least) was a sideshow. Should military men be celebrated for their suffering? I think their sacrifice should be acknowledged. OTOH, as is argued in some places, McCain’s […]

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