Love this facebook page: Ayn Rand collected Social Security “I’m about to write some trite books that will cause every prick in the world to tell you it’s cool to be a selfish asshole. YAY!”

PROPOSED EXPANSION OF COAL EXPORTS AND TRAINS IN AND THROUGH OUR COMMUNITIES, AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT  Sponsored by Poets West and Justice Party of Washington State Saturday, July 21 at 3:00 pm Green Lake Branch Seattle Public Library 7364 E Green lake Dr. N, Seattle   The Justice Party of Washington State and Poets…

Way to go Darcy!   Darcy Burner tells it like it is in this CrooskAndLiars article An Adult Conversation about Guns.  We need politicians who tell it like it is. I wonder if she’ll probably get more votes from that article than she’ll lose.

Wonder why Micosoft doesn’t pay state taxes and why Governor Gregoire and Suzan Del Bene are holding hands? If you missed last week’s discussion of the CD1 Candidates you can watch it again this evening on Channel 77 at 8:30 PM or online anytime here: Candidates Vying for Congress in Washington’s New First District.

“I know Suzan DelBene personally. I put her private sector experience to work for our state as Director of the Department of Revenue. Suzan immediately went to work to help close the state’s budget gap while easing the burden on small businesses.” That last phrase repeats and reinforces a Republican talking point: that taxes are…

It struck me today that protest is like prayer. Both involve supplication. Both make you feel good. Both are largely ineffective unless someone powerful is listening. But only protests can become violent.  A violent prayer no longer counts as prayer. To the extent that protests are like prayers, and to the extent that you believe…

With a silvery, flowing piano playing in the background, Darcy Burner says, “We should have government of, by and for the people, not government of, bought and paid for by large corporations and the wealthy, to multimillionaires who would buy our elections. I’m Darcy Burner, and I say No.” On the right of the screen…

As a follow-up to Marriage ceremony of Corporate Person and Angela Vogel, here’s  a longer, 31 minute video, including at minute 11:00 the Raging Grannies singing their funny song:  http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/24060082    “Will she become like him, all arrogance and breed. What will their kids look like when they start to greed?”  

Thank Sen. Whitehouse and Senate Democrats for fighting to pass the DISCLOSE Act. Some progressive say the Dems are as bad as the Repugs. Though Dems sometimes compromise too much, and though there are some bad Dems, the GOP by far are worse, as I expounded in The myth that the Dems are as bad…

Thurston County will get to vote to authorize the Public Utility District to expand into electricity in November. It is on the ballot, friends. We did it. No paid signature gatherers, just volunteers knocking on doors. Let’s talk about Puget Sound Energy for a moment. It is not a Puget Sound based company despite the…