We are in a rape culture. We have a million examples in this neoliberal and neocon country of that. We have the fact of one out of 12 or 15 girls and women losing their viriginity through sexual assault. We have what, one out of five in this country experiencing sexual assault by the time …
The celebration was lively: in the small town of Waldport, Oregon, a few hundred finally gathered to see the statue’s unveiling. We heard a Gulf Coast guy, Truman Price, a violinist, play music on his fiddle reminiscent of the tunes of 1880s which would have been played by the historical person cast in bronze. A …
the Jesus factorcomes to mind: what would that guydo with debts 20 yearsmoldy, second mortgageslong forgotten, a loansometimes to save a familynow creeping up like a ferrymanin arrears, foreclosures like tsunamisZombies in the nightthat giant sucking soundof evictions the beaches here are spottedwith tents . . . guys cookingCampbell’s, listeningto Guns ‘n Roses, nota Hooverville, sharedpots …
So, Day Two of the Disinformation class, and there is CLaire Wardle telling is about gray language, disinformation, context. She is on a roll with vaccine disinformation on Google, TikTok, Facebook and Twitter and the Internet. It’s as if she is a shill for the Pharma mafia: Claire Wardle studies the impact of misinformation on …
Oh, Zoom Doom Rooms: Highlights I am in this “master class,” Disarming Disinformation Master Class, and some guy, Craig Silverman is telling us about Google ads, and how to distinguish web sites that utilize ads from those “right-wing, conspiracy-loaded, anti-vaccination, et al” sunders. I feel like I am being lectured by a Canadian Jewish Freshman …
The concept of a universal income is predicated on the government (are we the government) paying some sum to EVERYONE (absurdity) rounding up to around $600 a month, or, hmm, $12,000 a year. Then, put in the digital gulag, that is, pay for success, so the data miners and social engineers and the eugenicists, getting …
I’m thinking hard about how many men I run into that have deeply entrenched and insane ideas about women, about their own self-worth tied to calling them the evil sex or drilling through their own Homo Sapiens’ minds the mysogyny of Satanic sickness. Picking up the pieces of another spousal abuse “situation,” again, same story, …
This is a rite of passage that needs to go the way of the Dodo. Mercenaries, and now, we have a blue blood son, grandson to Robert Kennedy, heading out to Ukraine with some sad sack ideas about what he in the name of Hell is going to do in that country? Yep, RFK Jr., …
Below, for the local newspaper, the Newport News Times. (without the images, etc.) Fourth Thursday in November, so either Wed. or Friday, or they will not publish it. Below that, more on this reprehensible genocidal black death Black Friday day! The First No-Thanks Thanksgiving Trigger Warning (noun): a statement at the start of a piece …
Private security for an arts director in Oregon, that Sundown State? This is the insanity of Biden-Trump-Obama-Carter-Bush-Clinton’s Land. When Nataki Garrett began to receive death threats early this year, she said her impulse was to retreat. “When this first happened, I actually tried to isolate myself,” said the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) artistic director in an interview with NPR. …
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