What does it mean when people all around are shaking each others' hands but not yours? I know that this video is widely available (I saw it on Huffpo), but it is a potent non-verbal message that bears on the foreign policy damage done by President Bush. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Y_ncOVlDw&eurl=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/[/youtube]
A friend of mine named Dan Martin (of St. Louis) has taken the time to arrange images of various Obama buttons into an attractive collage. It's attractive both artistically and in an Obamaesque-reknitting-of-the-social-fabric-sort-of-way. Using a high quality white paper, Dan has been busy distributing 11' x 17" copies of his…
As expected, certain mouths are already looking for ways to tear down Obama and all he stands for, even though---perhaps especially because---they don't know just what that is. It is disheartening. It makes me want to sit them down in a chair from which they cannot move and ask them,…
Bill Ayers talked with Salon.com, exploring many issues.  I was especially interested in his characterization of those Americans who would argue that they are passive or non-violent by the fact that they are not, themselves, physically violent. Per Ayers, there is no "neutral" when one's country is perpetrating despicable violence.…
Check out the campaign website of Benjamin Netanyahu (who is running for Prime Minister of Israel). Does it look at all familiar?