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Whatever Happened to Henry George?
I very recently finished a pretty darned good book, Henry George's Progress and Poverty from 1879. In it, he asks some serious questions of the class of scholars then known as "political economists," specifically why more people starve where civilization is most developed, and not less.
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General Discussion on Cannabis Reform
Been a while since we touched based on this issue. Oh yeah, I can link to the latest reports (which seem to pop up several times a day now) on how the issue is becoming damn near mainstream.
Even my redass state of Georgia is passing a cream CBD oil (the one "for the children". The irony writes itself on this issue). Suddenly 'regulation/ ( Read more... ) -
John Oliver's opening credits
John Oliver program on HBO is go good, and even the title sequence is fantastic from a graphic design point of view. The sequence is adaptable for what could be considered a main news item from that week. Case in point has included photographs of Joan Rivers, when she died, Pope Francis, all with cute subtitles. This week was no exception with a ( Read more... ) -
Historical Irony That Should Burn
Hello, liberal readers! I'm curious if anyone is still reading, so I thought I'd throw in a post and see what happens!
In another LJ user's page, I read recently of Angela Merkel's recent comments to the government of Japan concerning its relations to the nations it attacked during what Japan called The Pacific War.
Ukeru Magosaki, who served as the ( Read more... ) -
Witness the Depths of Republican Cynicism
Keeping to legitimate news-sources as I do, most of this Gruber-nonsense has passed below my radar. I'll see "Gruber" come up on Twitter's trending list, a video linked on social media, before ignoring it the same way I do most of the things I see there. But I'd like to explore what the recent case taken up by the Supreme Court, King v. Burwell, ( Read more... )
