My uncle Bruce died today. He had been in the hospital for nine months and decided that if he was going to die, he would do it in his own home. He had his faults like a lot of men, but he truly sought his own path and lived by his own standards. He was where I learned about true critical thinking. He will be missed.

So, Chevron lost its 18-year case against the native people of the Amazon, who sued them for dumping toxic waste in hundreds of pits and then just walking away and dusting their hands. However, they will continue to waste time and money on fighting the $18 billion they have to pay. Which leads me to this ( Read more... )

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The main difference between the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and the Tea Party movement of recent times:

No member of the Tea Party has ever been oppressed in any way for any reason.

The end.

In a debate about whether to euthanize an elderly relative who recently came out of a coma-like stupor just long enough to say "Kill me" in Yiddish:

Older son: Yeah, sure. Death is no big deal, because life is just, "Blah, blah blah."

Fuckup uncle:Life is just blah blah blah. You hope for blah and sometimes you find it. But mostly it’s blah. And ( Read more... )

I feel very depressed much of the time because I don't feel like I'm contributing to the world and that I am a leach or something like that because I am unemployed ( Read more... )

I had an odd experience last night. I woke up after being asleep for maybe twenty minutes, with a strange feeling like I didn't recognize my apartment, that somehow everything I've experienced since some vague cornerstone in my life has been a dream. It was as though I had just woken up inside a dream with the sudden realization that I was still ( Read more... )

I couldn't leave that last review without posting this:

http://socialistworker.org/2009/10/01/does-he-think-rape-is-funny

So, here I am with an extension of my "boy movie" post.
( A long, boring review of the movie Observe and Report )