Einstein. Eisenhower. O'Brien. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein. Every gun that is…
Monday Ménage: Edition Presidents, With a Plus 1
Harding. Eisenhower. Carter. Obama. There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive…
Monday Ménage: Edition Givers and Takers
Dhliwayo. Xinindlu. Malloy. True leaders are givers, not takers; builders, not destroyers; doers, not talkers; encouragers, not flatterers; lovers, not haters; warriors, not worriers; forgivers, not shamers; performers, not complainers; achievers, not quitters;…
Monday Ménage: Edition Truth
Lewis. Chisholm. Cooper. Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest. Freedom…
Monday Ménage: Edition Politics Politicians and Demonic People
Murat ildan. Vanderbuilt. Muscio. One of the lowest creatures on earth is the politician who tries to eliminate his political rivals using unlawful methods and even violence! To halt the march of such…
Monday Ménage: Edition Social Media, News, Librarians
Wylie. Aral. Vonnegut. The first tool of authoritarian regimes is always informational control—both in the gathering of information on the public through surveillance and the filtration of information to the public through owned…
Monday Ménage With A Plus-Two: Edition Ink Blots, Moral Idiots, Lies and Politics
Kirkpatrick. Urrea. Orwell. Robinson. Stalin. I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently.…
Monday Ménage: Edition Reason, Goobers, and The Imbecile
Einstein. Barry. Brecht. For all of us who are concerned for peace and the triumph of reason and justice must today be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good-will exert…
Monday Ménage: Edition Truth, Justice, Activism
West. Wilson. Davis. When faced with a choice between an incriminating truth or a flattering lie, America's ruling class has been choosing the lie for four hundred years. White Americans hunger for plausible…
Monday Ménage: Edition Proud, Struggling, Surviving. Success
Akwesasne Notes. LaDuke/Churchill. Alfred. The Hau de no sau nee, People of the Longhouse, who are known to many Europeans as the Six Nations Iroquois, have inhabited their territories since time immemorial. During…
Monday Ménage: Edition Democracy An Historical Movement, A Struggle
Davis. Solnit. Thompson. I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved…
Monday Ménage With A Plus One: Edition Stand Up, Move Forward, Power Change
Taryam. Sealy. Huerta. Valenti. There needs to be a fundamental shift in the way societies view women in government, one that does not see them as mere seat-fillers or stats on a chart,…
Monday Ménage: Edition Power, Corruption, Excesses and Idiots
Goodman/Howe. Zinn. Miller. Democratic power springs from an enlightened electorate. The neglect of this possibility in America – the failure to protect and advance it with new form and content during a century…
Monday Ménage: Edition Politics Politicians and The Political Machine
Martini. Floyd. La Follette. We live in a time where increasingly our national leaders are more like dons of crime than statesmen, where notions of plausible deniability replace truth, and claims that politicians…
Monday Ménage: Edition People, Corporations, and The Isms
Useem. Wolfe. Mills. The political concerns of members of the corporate elite are affected by three competing principles. These principles have fundamentally different implications for the ways in which business managers participate in policy…
Monday Ménage: Edition Power and Impotency
Rousseau. Hegel. Hall. As soon as the act of association becomes reality, it substitutes for the person of each of the contracting parties a moral and collective body made up of as many…
Monday Ménage: Joke Is On Us
Carlin. Mauro. Marx. Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own.…
Monday Ménage: Mixed Bag With A Plus One
Twain. Milne. Rousseau. Haudenosaunee. In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at…
A Dark, Dark Day
7 October 2001 / The United States invades Afghanistan with an air assault and covert ground assault. America's 20-year war begins. 1996 / Fox News broadcasts for the first time. 1952 …
Monday Ménage: Explains A Lot
Ebenstein/Fogelman. Kohn. Lasch. In the United States, anxiety over preserving one's threatened status has been one of the main psychological forces exploited by the radical right and by fascists groups. This status anxiety has…
Monday Ménage: Edition Sound Reason
Hobbes. Spinoza. TFG. Desire of knowledge, and of arts of peace, inclineth men to obey a common power; for such desire, containeth a desire of leisure; and consequently protection from some other power…
Wednesday WayBack: The Green Thing
Doesn't Take Much To Piss Us Off Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not…
Monday Ménage: Edition Ignorance
Mark Twain. Dalai Lama. Isaac Asimov. In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the…
Monday Ménage, But On Tuesday
H.L. Mencken. Hunter S. Thompson. John Lewis. In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common…
Monday Ménage: Edition American History, Lessons Not Learned
Chip Berlet/Matthew N. Lyons. John Nichols. Ron Nixon. We have been studying the armed militias with a group of more than 100 analysts and reporters for many months. The issue for us was never…













