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(not) Taxing the Rich; Losing Our Way.

Big Tex, You posed an article by Robert Frank of the Wall St. Journal on my wall so I felt compelled to read it and respond thoroughly. Upon finishing my first read of the article, my mind was reeling attempting to harmonize its clever craftsmanship and highly disingenuous message; the WSJ is certainly getting its [...]

Michael Moore Nails it Again

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Collusion

Between big bank fraudsters and an overburdened, unjust legal system: PDF

Joel Burns

If you haven’t seen this yet, please watch it. Mike Malloy played it on his show the other night, in its entirety, and it had me and my roommates near tears. It’s good to see this kind of thing.

Activism

This is a fascinating read by the brilliant Gladwell. In it, he draws a distinction between networked activism (twitter/facebook) and “old-school” hierarchical machine-style mobilization. He contrasts the intimate connections between local NAACP/CORE desegregation activists with the successful efforts of a contemporary New Yorker to retrieve his lost/stolen mobile through the use of social media. He [...]

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