by Andrew Stewart Note: None of the opinions expressed herein are to be construed as those of anyone but the author’s. -At this point we can only pray for gridlock until 2018 when a wide coalition of Greens, Libertarians, and other third parties to deliver a midterm upset to whoever wins the White […]
Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock
The Black Lives Matter movement has caused great fear and loathing in white people across the country. Police administrators have referred to them as terrorists and claimed to be “At war,” with BLM members or those inspired by the movement. Right wing websites running the gamut from conservative (Free Republic) to libertarian (Zerohedge) to “alt-right” […]
Smashing Kittens
By now many people have seen Donald Trump’s mocking imitation of The New York Times reporter who suffers from a disabling ailment that prevents him from using his arms fully and who asked Trump a question that offended him. Trump’s performance reminded me of a scene from Bernardo Bertolucci’s great film “1900,” which tells the history […]
Garrison and the 2016 Election
A friend recently called my attention to an article by William Lloyd Garrison, “On the Constitution and the Union,” in The Liberator, Dec. 29, 1832. Here is the link: http://fair-use.org/the-liberator/1832/12/29/on-the-constitution-and-the-union Garrison made several points: He called the Constitution “the most bloody and heaven-daring arrangement ever made by men for the continuance and protection […]
A Carnival of Inclusion
The Democratic National Convention was a carnival of inclusion: black, white, gay, straight, Christians, Jews, Muslims, cis-gendered and transgendered—all joined in proclaiming that “nothing can be wrong if it keeps our country strong” (with the implied corollary that the U.S. is “our” country). Its high point was Khizr Khan’s speech about his son, Humayun, who […]
Thoughts on Dallas and Baton Rouge
By James Murray The American liberal-left have almost universally condemned the recent martyrdom operations (I don’t know what else to call them) that occurred in Dallas and Baton Rouge. Such actions set back ‘the movement,’ we have been told. They occurred outside any mass base and without orders from any central committee, and are therefore […]