It's clear to me that Mr. Cosby is operating out of a deep love. It's not his responsibility to "come up with solutions." That responsibility resides with everyone, especially those who've never exercised theirs. That he would be so bold as to provoke this dialogue is in itself a tremendous gift: he could have chosen to avoid controversy, not make waves, and just watch from his position of privilege.
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trippin
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Where I live, the closest $tar-BUCKS is twenty miles from here, so it's catch as catch can. Mostly I grind my own and suck it down before I leave the house.
Posted to Where do you go when you're fiending for caffeine?
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There is only one alternative. To borrow from Nancy Reagan: just say "no!" No to keeping the street value of drugs so high that people shoot each other over them. No to criminalizing an act that has no victims but the actor, and punishing individuals for their weaknesses. No to wasting millions upon millions of dollars on totalitarian right wing death squads overseas under the guise of eradicating drugs. No to the pharmaceutical companies whose main agenda is to prevent people from medicating themselves. No to the control freak Bible wielding maniacs who presume to proscribe the boundaries of moral behavior, …
Posted to What is the best alternative to the War on Drugs?
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Draft the rich.
Posted to Should the United States bring back the draft?
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There was a time when being a liberal meant you had a proud tradition of protecting the wages, benefits, and rights of working citizens of all races and creeds. Today's liberalism is more concerned with Mexicans than our own citizens. No matter the depression of wages and benefits. We can't get health care for our own citizens, yet all the Democratic Presidential candidates were quick to claim their health care reform plan would cover illegal immigrants. The Latino groups are quick to brand anyone who dares question the unfettered access to our country by this human flood as being racist. Even …
Posted to Despite Raids, IDs For All
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It's funny how nowadays it seems that nobody voted for Bush!
Posted to What's Bush's biggest lie so far?
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Were it so benign. CNN seems to be on a path of not only trivialization, but of rightwingification. They both work in tandem to prevent the public from getting the news it needs to take back our nation from its corporate masters. And while it's all well and good that some of us have the time and motivation to actually go and find things out on our own using outher sources, most of those folks Bush calls "uniquely American" -- those working two or maybe three jobs to make ends meet since Reagan demolished the middle class -- don't have that …
Posted to Why Does CNN Suck?
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As it comes to light that what has been disparaged as "leftist" since Reagan rescinded the Fairness Doctrine is truly centrist despite media efforts, DiSouza finds himself competing for the attention of an ever-dwindling number of hateophiles. The good news is now that the damage they've wrought is undeniable, even mainstream media consumers find it increasingly uncomfortable to tolerate this fascist fringe, and are starting to abandon these polemics. The bad news is that while the ratings at Faux continue to plummet, even a mere 30% of Americans still supporting the Administration means that the likes of DiSouza will have plenty …
Posted to A Wingnut in Sheeps Clothing
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I find Lakshmi Chaudhry's account of atheist Richard Dawkins' positions to be inaccurate and self-serving. To my knowledge, never has Dawkins asserted that one needs to have "faith" in the scientific method. The scientific method is a procedure -- something one does -- not the object of faith. It makes as much sense to say that one has faith that when they bathe they wash behind their ears. The practice of faith and the practice of science are polar opposites: the former relies on dogmatic resistance to change, and the latter thrives on change. Yes, of course religious beliefs have evolved, …
Posted to The Godless Fundamentalist
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My father worked in the coal mines for fifty years. Our family bought what they could from the Company Store at inflated prices and usurious interest rates because they were extended credit and couldn't afford to survive otherwise. So my father worked like a dog shoveling tons of coal every day for no take home pay. My family lived in a drafty three room shack the coal company built in a shanty town. But I got educated, got a good job, and made my own life for myself. But hey, if we're passing stuff around to progeny because of the abuse …
Posted to The Reparations Bandwagon
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"We just have to keep presenting ethical positions and arguing the logic of ethical positions and we have to do it even if we are driven to violence..." This is perhaps the most profoundly contradictory statement I've seen. Ever. I'm with John Lennon: you can count me OUT. It's no wonder we can't win an election. We are our own worst enemy.
Posted to Do you think the Democrats will win back control of Congress this fall?
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