Legislators have another chance to fix tax breaks, keep Boeing jobs in WA
I recently purchased a T-shirt from the Boeing store for my daughter, who is fan of the 737. It says, “If it’s not Boeing, I’m not going!†That may be true for her — but Boeing jobs are certainly on their way out of Washington. How can this be? The Legislature met for a three-day…
Should progressives vote for Hillary if she wins the nomination?
My statement on the discussion of whether or not to vote for Clinton should Bernie not win the Democratic nomination and the many permutations of that discussion: I support the values embodied in the Democratic Party’s Washington State Platform (and many other state and local platforms, and quite a bit of what winds up in…
The Onion in talks with Fox Entertainment Group
Cole Bolton, editor-in-chief of the satirical website The Onion announced today that three of the six senior writers have resigned and that the publication is seeking a buyer due to decreasing ad revenue. Former senior writer Anthony Wilcox said, in an exclusive interview, “The root cause is that the political situation in America has become…
Republican Talking Heads Claim Talk has no Power to Influence Beliefs and Behavior
Who incited Christian terrorism? Not me. Couldn’t be. In what could be the greatest hypocrisy in a season of head-spinners, Christianist Republicans—from presidential candidates to congressmen to Fox News bimbos to sleazy video-splicers and wild-eyed sidewalk ranters-with-rosaries—are scrambling to deny that what they say actually matters. Specifically they claim that they had nothing to do with a…
Bye bye Bernie (Hillary's dream of winning the nomination)
Bye bye Bernie. The party’s beat you now. Oy vay, Bernie! Time to move to the right. No more faking that I’m a populist. Stop complaining that I’m too corporatist. I love the TPP, Wealth inequality, Wall Street society, Imperialist military! Bye bye Bernie. Bill and I will miss you so. So long Bernie! Time…