Working Life

I know a lot of people have been buying the “Make Levees, Not War” T-shirt created by a few of my friends and me–all profits to the organizations we’ve listed who are aiding the Katrina victims. So, here’s a reminder courtesy of some very talented artists I know: Kylie Heidenheimer (kylieh@mindspring.com), Jaye Schlesinger (http://www.jayeschlesinger.com/) and […]

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I love it when two rivers come together. And this a.m. my friends from the Wall Street Journal complied, with a story that ties in the CAFTA 15 and my post yesterday about the New Democratic Network’s Simon Rosenberg. Follow this lovely connection, my friends. Greg Hitt reports a story entitled, “Trade Pact Votes May […]

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Here’s a bit of a surprising revelation—though maybe it’s naïve to label any strange/perplexing bedfellows story as surprising in the world of politics. There’s an organization called the New Democratic Network (NDN)—it’s website says it “works with other allied groups to build a strong, vibrant and powerful progressive politics capable of meeting the challenges of […]

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Some of you may have seen this but it’s worth repeating: Republican Rep. Richard Baker of Louisiana said this, according to The Wall Street Journal’s “Washington Wire”: “We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.”

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Chazer, for anyone not steeped in Yiddish, is a pig; the “CH” is pronounced as if you were gathering up a load of spit, which is appropriate for this discussion. In Congress, we now have a chazer caucus–a group of elected representatives that seem unable to stop dipping into the public trough to give rich […]

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I don’t know why everyone seems so surprised and outraged about what Pat Robertson said about “taking out” Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Sure, it’s crazy, foolish, possibly illegal and certainly not what Jesus would have said (but Robertson is way far from Jesus’ life). And it certainly makes sense to try to hold Robertson accountable […]

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Knew I was going to be on the road here in Chicago (geez, maybe I should get a place here, what with spending a whole week here for the AFL-CIO convention) but had to go to the local candlelight vigil here in support of Cindy Sheehan. I know everyone knows the story so I’ll just […]

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Look, I’m no fan of the F.B.I. and there are many, many, many instances of these guys going after completely innocent people. But, I do want to note a follow up to the info I posted a week ago about the F.B.I. raid on the offices of Rep. William Jefferson, one of the CAFTA 15. […]

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This is worth checking out: http://afsc.org/iraq/movie.htm

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A slight detour from my usual ramblings…I couldn’t shake the story of Cindy Sheehan, the woman who has posted herself outside the president’s vacation home, demanding that he meet with her to explain why her 24-year-old son, Casey, had to die in Iraq. She’s not going to move from that searing heat until she tells […]

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