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Violence

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I know I have said here more than once that I believe the right-wing patriarchy, the white supremacist movement in this country wants me and everyone like me to be dead so long as we refuse to conform to their ideas of how human culture should be structured. They don’t want feminists to exist, or queers of any variety. They are uncomfortable with creative artists and free-thinkers. They don’t like science because they can’t control it. They definitely hate people of color and immigrants who come from non-Western countries. Even a whiff of social democracy as it exists in European … Continue reading →

Tools

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For now, staying safe and sane in this neo-facist environment. Autocracy: Rules for Survival … Trump is anything but a regular politician and this has been anything but a regular election. Trump will be only the fourth candidate in history and the second in more than a century to win the presidency after losing the popular vote. He is also probably the first candidate in history to win the presidency despite having been shown repeatedly by the national media to be a chronic liar, sexual predator, serial tax-avoider, and race-baiter who has attracted the likes of the Ku Klux Klan. … Continue reading →

Waiting for a revelation

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I think much of what needs to be said about the assassination attempt on Rep. Giffords has been said. It’s a sad day for our country when citizens, judges, children, and political figures are shot down in broad daylight in a grocery store. Perhaps if we put more money into mental health care and less into guns this wouldn’t have happened, but in a world where half the country thinks that attempts to fix our broken health care system constitute tyranny, I won’t hold my breath waiting for that. Anyway, here are some links to articles I’ve been most impressed … Continue reading →