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The Watering Hole, Friday March 1, 2013; Gone, Wasted, Broken — and Sequestered?
Gone, Wasted, Broken – An Elegy on America Gone now, America’s halcyon days Where Reason stood tall and grand in the sun; Brilliance defined Her equanimous ways – Gone now, expunged, all Her triumphs...
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Watering Hole: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 – Wealth Reality
The wealth distribution in this nation is appalling. This is why it is becoming more difficult to make ends meet. Are you feeling the pain? Thom Hartman wrote a book in which one chapter explores...
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The Watering Hole, Monday, September 30th, 2013: “UBUNTU”
I know that Wayne posted this on yesterday’s Sunday Roast, but it bears another look – especially in light of the myriad inhumane arguments, diatribes, and lies rising to a cacophonic crescendo over...
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The Watering Hole, Monday, October 21st, 2013: Mixed Nuts
First, Foreign Policy Magazine got a little ‘spacy’ towards the end of the shutdown, with author Michael Peck penning a pair of fantasy articles titled “The Empire Shuts Down” and “One Starship to Rule...
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The Watering Hole, Monday, October 28th, 2013: Bill Maher: “You Cannot Have...
This past Friday night’s “Real Time with Bill Maher”‘s panel consisted of Michael Moore, a surprisingly quiet Al Sharpton, Valerie Plame, and Richard Dawkins. And while the group had some interesting...
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Sunday Roast: Veterans Day
Veterans Day, which is noted in other countries as Armistice Day and Remembrance Day, marks the end of World War I. More particularly, the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, 1918. On this...
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The Watering Hole, Monday, December 9th, 2013: Minimum Wage Scrooge
Yes, I still occasionally read parts of Newsmax and Moneynews, just so that you won’t have to. You’re welcome. The Moneynews email subject that caught my eye this time was “Fast-food Workers Rally for...
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The Watering Hole; Friday January 17 2014; “Take All Away From Me, But Leave...
A long time ago (‘and in a galaxy far far away’?), the American poet Emily Dickinson wrote: His Cheek is his Biographer – As long as he can blush Perdition is Opprobrium – Past that, he sins in peace –...
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The Watering Hole; Friday, January 24, 2014; The Poetry of Earth (part II)
“The poetry of earth is never dead.” (John Keats, 1817) A long time ago, the English poet William Wordsworth wrote, in “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey,” a most able synopsis of the...
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The Watering Hole, Monday, October 13th, 2014: More Money than God
At billmoyers.com, I spotted an article by Sam Pizzigati, regarding the recent publication of the Forbes 2014 Billionaires list. An excerpt: “…the richest of these 400 hold far more than that average....
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The Watering Hole, Tuesday January 13, 2015 – Environmental News ad Food...
Cha-Ching cha-ching… the elephant in the room. Naomi Klein tackles the elephant in the room. Capitalism vs. The Climate Open thread. Discuss.
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The Watering Hole, Saturday, November 14th, 2015: Populism That Works
ICYMI, or maybe ICIMI: there’s a petition going around for a great idea that was brought to our attention today in a newsletter from populist Jim Hightower. The Campaign for Postal Banking is pushing...
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The Watering Hole, Monday, November 23rd, 2015: NatGeo, Take Me Away!
I can’t deal with “Ugly Americans” [of course, “Ugly Americans” = “Republican Presidential Candidates and their Fans/Supporters”] anymore; we keep thinking, “How can these guys sink so low?”, then, the...
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Sunday Roast: Another year gone; what have we learned?
I know I’ve posted this video a few times over the years, in one form or another, but I’m posting it again. Why? That’s a good question. I’m glad you asked. I don’t know if it’s because I’m feeling...
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The Watering Hole, Saturday, February 20th, 2016: Huh?
I think that the Koch brothers are attempting to put a ‘softer light’ on their well-deserved evil reputations. Earlier this week at the office, I found the following missive, purportedly from David...
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The Watering Hole, Saturday, March 5th, 2016: This Land Is Still Our Land
I’ve written before about the emails from the American Land Rights Association that somehow end up coming to my office, and how Charles Cushman has been involved with the Hammonds, the scofflaws whose...
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The Watering Hole; Thursday April 7 2016; Wage Peace, Not War part II...
“We’re run by people that don’t get it. I don’t know, it’s a lack of street smarts, it’s a lack of intelligence, to be honest with you, but it’s just a horrible situation.” (Donald Trump) A revolting...
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The Watering Hole, Monday, October 10th, 2016: Still Carrying Holy Water
In case I haven’t written enough about Evangelical “Christian” website, The Christian Post, here’s another one. I wanted to see what their reaction was to the Trump “pussy” scandal. Would this be the...
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