Could Someone Smack Some Sense Into Peter Beinart
In the past I've liked some of the things this guy has had to say, but his Op-Ed for the Post today lost me entirely with this statement. Since World War II, perhaps the Republican Party's greatest...
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Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
Robert Stone was close to ground zero all throughout the Sixties. Kesey and the Merry Pranksters parked their bus, Furthur, outside his apartment when they finally made it to NYC. Stone was there...
View ArticleObama can kiss my hippy ass
Dear Barack, I was really excited when you said you were running for president. Incredible! A black man, and a woman in the running for president for the first time in our country's history. And you,...
View ArticleToward a Progressive Politics of Needs and Values, Not Interests and Issues
Ted and I will be serializing the Introduction to our new book, Break Through, here at the DailyKos over the next week. This is the second of four parts. Enjoy! Click here to find out more about the...
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Tom Purcell and the fruits of anti-tax extremism.
Tom Purcell bills himself as a humorist. Yet there is nothing funny about his brand of anti-tax extremism as he wraps himself around the American flag for the Thanksgiving holiday. What we have learned...
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Seriously - Send In The Clowns
[Note: There is meat below this Intro sauce] Cue the oompah music. Cite Kossack Diary Rule #3. Then ignore it, as you might the Constitution. Back that up with anecdotal evidence regarding Chaos...
View ArticleProgressive Heroes: Yuri Kochiyama (w/ poll)
Most folks have never heard of Yuri Kochiyama. That is a damn shame. Yuri Kochiyama has been one of the leading social justice advocates in the United States for more than 40 years...
View ArticleWhy 47 is the perfect age to be president
Today is Barack Obama's 47th birthday. He shares the same birthdate as Louis Armstrong, Helen Thomas, Billy Bob Thornton, Roger Clemens, and Percy Shelley. Much has been made about Obama's youth, and...
View ArticleSteve Pearce's Hippie Hippie Shake: Don't You Want Somebody to Love?
Stare into the center of the mandala, Steve As I commented on Matt's post at New Mexico FBIHOP about the Steve Pearce hippie attack ad on Tom Udall, Grace Slick used to sing "One pill makes you larger....
View ArticleThe "movement" question again. Is there one or not?
Ken Brociner's article: The American Left: Does a Nationwide ‘Progressive Movement’ Actually Exist? in In These Times asks the question I have raised here in the past. It is worth asking again....
View ArticleStuck in the 60s?
Referring back to previous eras is nothing new in presidential politics. Just to pull recent examples, we've seen this in Clinton's two election cycles - London anyone? We've seen it played to horrible...
View ArticleThe Deadly Writers Patrol
Just a brief break from all of the election diaries to let you know about a great new magazine you, or others you know, might be interested in. I teach modern U.S. History at a major American...
View ArticleWe Shall (begin to) Overcome
The Queens School in Kew Gardens, New York was a private school in the 1960s and early 1970s that was run by Vietnam war-protesting liberals, and not a day goes by that I don’t cherish the education I...
View ArticleMarching into the 21st Century (through the 1960s)
When I was in college (in the mid-1970s), I took part in a seminar called "The History of the 1960s." We read a 300-page book and various other things. I can’t recall the name of the professor...
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There’s been a lot of ink spilled on the death of Farrah Fawcett—even the august New York Times has more than half a page today. Like the rest of the mainstream media, it gingerly avoids the n-word:...
View ArticleWhat I Learned from the 1960s
kittycago wrote a highly recommended diary today that was sparked by one of those email chains waxing nostalgically about some long lost time, in this case, the 1950s. The detailed and intriguing...
View ArticleMom was wrong: 2 Wrongs Do Make a Right; and Namecalling is OK
I subscribe to NewsMax.com's email list, and usually I am too queasy to actually open it, but today my stomach was strong. The first bulleted item was: Pelosi Nazi Remark Ignored, Rush Limbaugh...
View ArticleGrandpa Stories (Let Me Tell You About The Old Days)
When you’re a kid, Grandpas will happily buy you ice cream or candy. Grandpas know that you know that your parents would say, "No, it’ll ruin your dinner." Grandpas will teach you how to fish when...
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