America enables mass shootings

Read Karen J. Greenberg’s inconvenient truths at TomDispatch, but linked here at Salon. She writes: Domestically, in the name of prevention, the government launched a series of measures that transformed the American landscape when it came to both surveillance and civil rights.  Yet despite the acquisition of newly aggressive powers of every sort, law enforcement …

“But I don’t see color” serves no one

Ebony sends this, an interesting Salon essay about the dangers of color blindness among popular progressive politicians. Presidential candidate and Vt. Sen. Bernie Sanders is saying a lot of good and meaningful stuff in relation to wealth and income inequality, but this Vox piece suggests he might be a 1930s radical (not so concerned with …

An atheist’s search for God

From Nancy Ellen Abrams, on Salon: I kept wondering what I was doing, trying to figure it out. At last I decided that the higher power was simply my own best thinking, my higher self, the part I like to have in control. The moment I concluded this, however, I began to sabotage myself. It …

Day 5 of the Hillbilly Watch

Still waiting for a hillbilly to do the right thing out in Joplin. And here’s Salon’s Glenn Greenwald’s take on things. And — again — if you want to help, here’s another venue to aid the Joplin Muslims. Looks like things are going well in that effort. Go, hillbillies!