- "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The reality is not that I lack respect for the law; it’s that I have greater respect for justice. Where there is a conflict between the law and the higher moral code that we all share, my loyalty is to that higher moral code."
Tim DeChristopher
“This is what you shall do; love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
Walt Whitman
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Hot off the presses at Tea Party headquarters!
I say let’s push them all over a real cliff!
I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of hearing about the fiscal cliff and Obama’s grand bargain. Almost before all the voting booths could be packed up early last month this made-up, bullshit story started making the rounds on all the corporate news media in an effort to scare people into taking whatever deal the psychopaths in banking and other powerful industries decide to foist upon us all. There is bipartisan agreement between the two corporate-controlled parties to slash … Continue reading
Blast From The Past: Don’t Push My Buttons
The content below is an email I received in September of 2008, followed by my knee jerk response written the day I received it four years ago. Lies are persistent little things, and apparently there are now several permutations of this hateful screed still circulating around the network today. Anyway, since I’m more sick of this election cycle than I have ever been of any such event, and can’t bring myself to flog a dead horse anymore, I thought perhaps … Continue reading
Cultures of Ignorance: Tea Party Edition
Do we really want people who are this ignorant and ill informed… voting?
