Friday, January 02, 2015

Friday Stuff

RIP Mario Cuomo – prayers and best wishes to the family (including his son the NY governor, who I believe still has a thing or two to learn from his old man)…



…and hats off to former Army Major Jason Wright for this…



…and yes, there is a God (though, yeah, Blankenship should be facing vastly more time for the mine deaths than for the SEC stuff)…



…and I’m not sure how uplifting this song really is, but I think it does provide some good advice (something to ponder as we start the new year).

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Wednesday Stuff

On the one hand, yeah, it’s interesting to see the back-and-forth between the corporatist Republicans and the uber-nutty grass roots fringe, but this stuff would be a hell of a lot less relevant if something had been done about it in the November election…



...and John Oliver dispenses New Years Eve advice as only he can...



…and as I’ve said before, you’d be better off watching paint dry as opposed to viewing a single second of Fix Noise…



Update 1/1/15: More like this.

…and Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich tells us about progressive gains in 2014 and what we still have to do for 2015…



…and here’s a song for drawing the curtain on 2014, a year full of potential change that, as far as I’m concerned, was pretty much not realized due to the influence of big money and the incompetence of the supposed Democratic Party geniuses of the beltway (Tom Wolf in PA was definitely an exception, though), to say nothing of truly appalling and historic voter apathy…



…and I was also looking for an anthemic tune to kick off the new year, and I think this works (coincides with Patti Smith’s recent birthday also) – best wishes to one and all for a happy and healthy 2015.

Monday, December 29, 2014

Monday Stuff

(I also posted here.)

Once again, Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich explains how those smiley-faced bastards could remain obscenely rich and still pay their workers a living wage…



…and as long as we’re on the subject of the Walton family, this tells us how they can “respect the bump” (activism at work and paying off to at least some degree)…



...and Charles Osgood of CBS Sunday Morning tells us about the people who left us during the year that is about to come to a close...



…and I was into the holiday stuff for a little while and that’s why I’m late in putting up this little number – I love this guy’s sound.