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Painless executions are easy but immoral

I oppose capital punishment. But it surprises me that states are struggling to find ways to execute people painlessly. There are two easy ways to kill people painlessly. The first is carbon monoxide. People often die in their beds from carbon monoxide poisoning (due to improper ventilation of a heater, for example). They feel drowsy […]

The Occupy and D.C. protesters are True Patriots and should wear tri-cornered hats

How un-American: torture, immoral wars, vote fixing, imprisonment without trial, handouts and taxbreaks for billionaires,  desecration of the environment, government for the corporations, theocratic combining of church and state, free trade agreements that ship jobs overseas, etc. The protesters in D.C. and on Wall Street are true patriots and should adorn themselves with tri-colored hats […]

Austerity Economics or Real Utopias? Which one is crazier?

We need transcendent, transformative politics in this country and the world, but the mainstream paradigm remains a struggle between established power bases – one, a social democrat model as epitomized in Scandinavian models and the other, a Thatcher/Reagan model of social darwinism wearing a mantle of trickle down, supply-side economics. There is no question that […]