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What the NRA's guns-in-schools pitch and the Facebook experience have in common.
I quit Facebook a while back, after having enjoyed being FB friends with a bunch of people with whom I like being connected. I left because Facebook's price of "friendship" was too high for me. What Facebook wanted – what... Continue reading
Posted Dec 28, 2012 at alias Bruce.
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One thing we know from the Obama presidency,
aside from the obvious fact that corporate politics remain corporate politics regardless of race or rhetoric, is that when you compromise too much in an effort to be reasonable, a smart and cynical adversary will use it against you. As... Continue reading
Posted Oct 17, 2012 at alias Bruce.
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Gabriel Heilig on the speech Obama ought to deliver.
The first presidential debate two Wednesdays ago provided yet another reminder of the painfully conflict-averse nature of this president. It drives some progressives crazy that, even within the confines of corporatocracy, Obama could inspire outrage against the brown-shirt Romney-Ryan rabble... Continue reading
Posted Oct 14, 2012 at alias Bruce.
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This NYT Quotation of the Day
says it all: "These politicians just don't realize how important that one $240 check is." – Frank Ballesteros, 62, whose unemployment benefits will run out next week because Arizona legislators declined an extension with federal money. Bottom line: wealthy, corporate-fed... Continue reading
Posted Jun 18, 2011 at alias Bruce.
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A new study finds that even mundane disorder spurs discrimination.
The study, by Dutch researchers Diederik A. Stapel and Siegwart Lindenberg, appeared in the April 8 issue of the journal Science. It found, in field and laboratory experiments, that people were more prone to stereotype and discriminate against others in... Continue reading
Posted Apr 7, 2011 at alias Bruce.
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Mike: The salient fact here is more basic than you admit: The large-scale repercussions of a worst-case scenario nuclear plant disaster are far worse than those for a coal, oil or gas plant. I am no fan of these, either, since their incremental planetary impact is worse than that of a well-functioning nuclear plant. The problem I cited is with an accident. If you think nuclear power is worth that risk, God bless you. I don't. Ultimately, the solution is breaking the current coal/oil/gas/nuclear monopoly with safer and sustainable energy sources.
Commented Apr 4, 2011 on The problem with nuclear power at alias Bruce.
The problem with nuclear power
is that its inherent danger – radiation – is simply too great a liability for it to be a viable long-term source of energy. To be sure, no energy source is immune to natural or man-made disasters. Earthquakes happen. So do floods, tsunamis, accidents, malfunctions, human errors, fires, and terr...
Angela: So you believe that mundane or profound differences in everyday treatment, in intra- vs. inter-racial conversation, and in where one feels most culturally comfortable "don't happen." A slew of white, brown and black people I know tell me otherwise. Someone is mistaken here, and the odds tell me it's you. Don't assume, either, that guys are the only gender who look at the opposite (or the same) gender's butts. That's why I deliberately didn't use a gender pronoun there.
Commented Mar 5, 2011 on A white friend of mine told me how she heard a black woman declare at alias Bruce.
A white friend of mine told me how she heard a black woman declare
that she wishes she could try being white. The black woman, a well-known artist, had given a talk at which she made the "white" remark. My white friend, who attended, was taken aback. How, she asked me, could this strong, successful, confident black woman wish she were white? How could this blac...
Good point, Mushim. Maybe better to have said, "the underlying calendar for all 12 months." White history awareness, after all, doesn't need a special month.
Commented Feb 10, 2011 on As a black person, I loathe the idea at alias Bruce.
As a black person, I loathe the idea
of a Black History Month (we're a week into it). The only thing I hate more than Black History Month is White History Year, otherwise known as the other 11 months of the calendar, when whiteness reasserts its quiet dominance of what we think of as history. So, in my once-a-year pique at this los...
Thank you, Mushim.
I'll try for a healthier dinner on Sunday, but just as tasty. I wish you the same.
Commented Feb 4, 2011 on Here is where I stand on the February 6 Super Bowl: at alias Bruce.
Here is where I stand on the February 6 Super Bowl:
I don't care. I don't care who plays. I don't care who wins. This is not because my home team Baltimore Ravens were knocked out of the AFC championship race a week ago (in a game I didn't watch and didn't know the outcome of until I heard about it the next day). It also is not because I have ...
The Egyptian revolt and the West's possible responses
seem pretty well summed up by this paragraph from Laila Lalami's piece in The Nation: For those of us who have grown up in dictatorship, the protests that have ignited throughout the Arab world feel like the fulfillment of a... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2011 at alias Bruce.
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Speaking of what is possible between people when we're willing to go there,
nationally-known children's diversity book author and Obama supporter Nancy Vogl has shared an editorial she wrote for her hometown newspaper in Traverse City, Michigan about the connection she made with an apparently virulent local bigot who turned out to be...... Continue reading
Posted Jan 28, 2011 at alias Bruce.
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The striking thing about response to Obama's State of the Union speech
is the breathless media speculation about whether Democrats and Republicans will heed Obama's ostensibly new call to work together. ("Will Congress answer Obama's call?" asks CNN.) Obama, of course, has done nothing but work with Republicans (and with business), whether... Continue reading
Posted Jan 26, 2011 at alias Bruce.
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R.I.P. Sargent Shriver,
founder of the Peace Corps and a statesman and public intellectual in the deepest sense, who died yesterday at 95. Continue reading
Posted Jan 19, 2011 at alias Bruce.
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Amy Chua's "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior" WSJ article has
Posted Jan 15, 2011 at alias Bruce.
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Reason #117 to not sleep on the subway.
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Reblogged Jan 13, 2011 at alias Bruce.
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The Method to Sarah Palin’s Madness.
As I write, Sarah Palin, reacting to loudening calls for her to show her face and say something personally about the Arizona shootings, has just released her response. In typical form, rather than exposing herself to any sort of questioning... Continue reading
Posted Jan 12, 2011 at alias Bruce.
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As Arizona’s sickened state yanks the blanket off our national fever,
here is an excerpt from today's editorial in the New York Times, that well-known radical leftist publication: "It is facile and mistaken to attribute this particular madman’s act directly to Republicans or Tea Party members. But it is legitimate to... Continue reading
Posted Jan 10, 2011 at alias Bruce.
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More on the Huck Finn thing:
I have been thinking more about what it is that makes a book like Huck Finn, with its 219 spoken repetitions of "nigger," such a conundrum for Americans. The real problem, I think, is that many of us in the... Continue reading
Posted Jan 10, 2011 at alias Bruce.
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Rachel Maddow raised an interesting question last night:
With Mitch McConnell, John Boehner and other prominent Republicans making "no compromise" their ceaseless mantra no matter what the outcome of next week's election, why are President Obama, Vice President Biden, Harry Reid and other top Democrats still making happy-talk... Continue reading
Posted Oct 29, 2010 at alias Bruce.
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Alveda King, Martin Luther King's niece, showing up to hail Glenn Beck and to reassure a throng of raging whites that they aren't racist
is sad. But it should not come as a shock.Delusional, bigoted, self-pimping, and flat-out dumb people come in all colors. Witness Alveda King's having, earlier this summer, called gay marriage "genocide." Witness shameless black ministers bellowing homophobia from the pulpits... Continue reading
Posted Sep 1, 2010 at alias Bruce.
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Brand-name drug prices rose 8% in July,
and over the last five years prices of the most popular brand-name drugs skyrocketed 41.5 percent, while the consumer price index went up by only 13.3 percent, according to AARP. Pharma companies, continuing to gorge on fat profits, tried to... Continue reading
Posted Aug 25, 2010 at alias Bruce.
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Top headlines of the month
from satirist Andy Borowitz: BP Develops Technology to Convert Lies Into Energy "Totally Renewable Resource," Says CEO Greece Offers to Repay Loans with Giant Horse Steed Wheeled Into Brussels At Night All U.S. Workplaces to be Fitted with Inflatable Slides... Continue reading
Posted Aug 20, 2010 at alias Bruce.
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Ways to Fight Bigotry: #3.
Okay, it's time for another break from my opinionizing. Here is the third in my series of suggestions for fighting bigotry in everyday life:3.) Decide what you want to accomplish in a confrontation. Let's say a stranger behaves in an... Continue reading
Posted Jun 6, 2010 at alias Bruce.
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No doubt you are as well-informed as you are eloquent.
Commented May 5, 2010 on Killing. at alias Bruce.
Killing.
Sean Paul Kelley over at The Agonist recently posted a thoughtful piece about his having been raised as a hunter and his sorting out a personal stance toward the taking of life and the sharing of the planet. In response to what he wrote, I posted a comment. With its now being hunting season (my n...
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