Years ago, while reading up on the Third Servile War, I came across an essay about the various commanders in it. If you’re not familiar with it, the Third Servile war was one of several major slave rebellions in ancient Rome. This one was started by a group of gladiators, the most famous of whom […]
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I posted this last week to Facebook, but wanted to put it here as well. Judge Aileen Cannon did her job, and did it well. You only think she didn’t if you think that her job had anything to do with justice. She was put in her position to serve the interests of the 1%
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So… Biden is officially out of the race. I was worried at first, but I’m not sure that it’s necessarily a bad thing, let alone a devastating thing. He endorsed Kamala Harris to take his place, which was really the only good choice. Now, while, yes, the rapid racists and misogynists are going to vote
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Today in union history…Well, OK, it wasn’t actually today, but I was reminded of it recently. Who writes the stories? The railroad put out the story of Casey Jones as a mighty hero. He was willing to work when nobody else wanted to. (Sound familiar?) The rest of the railroad workers were on strike. The
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Well, I was gonna write up a whole thing about 9/11 on today, the 21st anniversary of the destruction of the World Trade Center. But I got busy, so I’ll just leave a few memories here. Things I remember from 9/11 and the days after. I remember the media all repeating that this was “like
I struggled for almost thirty years to pay off my student loans. I have paid roughly $120,000 on the $25,000 that I initially borrowed. I owe about $12,000 more, and I’ve been making payments regularly throughout the pandemic and so-called “suspension” of student loan payments. And now, since last year I finally made too much
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Twenty years ago, I started my blog. Back then, it was on Livejournal, which later got moved over to Dreamwidth. And, finally, it got moved here to my own web site. That first entry was me sitting in my apartment in Pittsburg, California, watching the protests in my home town of Portland, 700 miles away,
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I felt I should say a few things here about the recent Supreme Court decision, especially for those people gloating about it today: Overturning Roe isn’t about reducing abortions. It’s about punishing women who have them. That’s it. That’s what’s going to happen. There are many things that can be done – and have been
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Welcome back to Throwback Thursday. This one was originally posted on October 19th, 2016, right after the last “debate” between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. I made some predictions about what would happen if each of them win. I think my “If Hillary wins” predictions were a pretty accurate prediction of what we’re seeing now
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I was looking at some of my old Livejournal entries. I found one from 2004 that was a comment I’d made under a friend’s entry. I may turn it into a blog post. But today, the part that struck me was that it was a discussion of George W. Bush’s plan to land a human
