Author Archives: CLB

The Mad-Hatter’s “Teaparty” Revolution…

David Sirota, has penned his as-usual perfect analysis of the newest limelight-seeking winger delushionist– Teaparty spokes-Mad-Hatter Glenn Beck– and his recent CrackPAC “presentation”:
Coming days after an anti-tax terrorist kamikaze-attacked a government facility in Texas, and following Republicans like Sen. Scott Brown and Rep. Steve King expressing sympathy for that terrorist’s grievances, Beck’s homily stands as [...]

ACTION POINT: Saturday: 2-20, 2010: Back to the (environmentally concerned, recession-hit, progressive) Future!

Recessions bore through the American economy like monsoons.  Vaguely predictable (market bubbles always end in bursts), economically violent and messy in the aftemath, our current recession is no different.  EXCEPT this time the pain is profoundly deep and being leveraged by those who have most profited to further weaken the system in their own self [...]

Socialism, Cleveland Style…

I’m a child of Ohio.  Back in my day it was a vast state fragrant from thousands of miles of green; corn, grapes, maple, wildflowers, pine groves and more.  In short a farm state criss-crossed by train tracks, a handful of Mennonites and wall-to-wall Republicans dotted by a few large and mid-size industrial cities like [...]