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Omidyar Ship of Tools

January 8, 2014

had we thought it through
before buying the world
a coke

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Five Signs of the Coming Socialist Apocalypse

January 7, 2014

 

  1. The horror
  2. The horror
  3. I will do my utmost to represent the disenfranchised and the excluded, the poor and the oppressed – by fighting for a $15/hour minimum wage, affordable housing, and taxing the super-rich for a massive expansion of public transit and education.
  4. The horror
  5. The horror

And Paul Allen did fret.

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Party Like It’s 1984

January 6, 2014

“Any state that has the capacity to monitor all its citizenry, any state that has the ability to snuff out factual public debate through control of information, any state that has the tools to instantly shut down all dissent is totalitarian.” – Chris Hedges

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¡Qué Cojones!

January 5, 2014

Austerity!
Backstops are also for stopping balls.
Austerity!

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If History Has Taught Us Anything

January 2, 2014

“I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half” – Jay Gould

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2014: In Like a Mortgage Derivative, Out Like a Pete and Repeat on a Fence

January 1, 2014

The new year!  Filled with much of the same as 1999…but with fewer of us remembering how everything shut down on Y2K.

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Old moldy and Cold

December 31, 2013

the truth about much of anything
is located in Lance Armstrong’s fridge.
third shelf down,
just behind the Erythropoietin
and
Corticosteroids.

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