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By Shoq, on April 6, 2012, at 8:30 pm
It’s time to restore corporate power to the people by blasting through the myths about how corporations should be run, and for whom.
This article, by an economist who specializes in corporate wealth, with two talented journalists sitting-in, absolutely destroys one of the most enduring and rapacious myths to be found anywhere: that public corporations
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By Shoq, on March 29, 2012, at 12:39 pm
See important update at the end.
Forgive my link-baited title, but it was just as contrived, gamed, and inaccurate as this one from Paul Farhi in today’s Washington Post:
Limbaugh sees heat over comments turn down to a simmer
That awful bit of non-reporting spawed these (and other) derived items from so-called “journalists” sucking
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By Shoq, on March 10, 2012, at 2:03 pm
An old and dear Candian friend of mine wrote this to some of his inner circle. I thought I'd share,
Dear Americans,
We have been so entertained over the years by your television broadcasts, but never more so than the past few months with your election primaries. We find ourselves huddled by the TV each night,
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By Shoq, on February 15, 2012, at 9:32 am
Note: This article, by Retired Republican House and Senate staffer Mike Lofgren wrote a piece in 2011 called “Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult,” went viral, drawing over a million unique views on Truthout, whose reporter, Jason Leopold has widely documented ethical issues.
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By Shoq, on February 15, 2012, at 9:27 am
Note: This article, by Retired Republican House and Senate staffer Mike Lofgren went viral, drawing over a million unique views on Truthout, whose reporter, Jason Leopold has widely documented ethical issues. Not wanting to reward any site that would employ such reporters, I must repost Loftgren's work here under Truthout's Creative Commons license.
by: Mike
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By Shoq, on February 1, 2012, at 12:35 pm
Backstory on this issue
Progressives MUST push back against this kind of political tampering or the Right wing will learn to apply it wherever they can. Please take a few minutes and help to reverse this obscene development.
Ways You Can Help:
1) SWAMP Komen's contact form with your protest messages.
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By Shoq, on November 25, 2011, at 5:53 pm
I'm collecting articles and videos that examine many of the key problems facing Progressivism in the United States. I grow weary of tweeting them individually, so I thought I would combine them here. Where appropriate, I sometimes link to introductory blog posts which I felt might properly frame or augment the work. I also toss
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By Shoq, on November 21, 2011, at 3:09 pm
Three weeks ago, I tweeted this:
@shoq: Somewhere, deep inside @DavidFrum, there’s a useful progressive yearning to be free: j.mp/tcQXDr #p2
I was being a bit glib about it, but I was trying to express an intuition about a sense I’ve had about a slow and sometimes erratic transformation
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By Shoq, on August 6, 2011, at 9:55 am
Grey Parker is one of those bloggers you stumble upon when someone in your stream says "you gotta read this." I did that some months ago, and ever since, I eagerly snap at his posts like a Venus Fly Trap that just got lucky. Today, Grey decided to respond to the execrable new Tokyo Rose
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By Shoq, on March 15, 2011, at 10:40 am
I quibble over some of his choices at times, but as my readers know, I've been a big fan of the @punkPatriot since I first came across him. If I had the spare change, I'd be putting him up in house somewhere, and pay him to make these videos all day long, so he didn't
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