Look, I’m not married. I’ve never been married. I never wanted to be married — okay, maybe when I was five I played house or something, but once I was out of early childhood, I always knew I would never get married.
No, my parents weren’t divorced, married for over 60 years.
In a way, I was a feminist before… Read the rest
The El Reno City Council has unanimously approved a “Voluntary Recycling Program” for the OEMA to run a new curbside recycling service that would entail city utility customers paying an additional $5 a month for an extra bin to put out recyclable items.
An ad promoting the program in the local newspaper was “sponsored by C2S Environmental Service, Inc.”… Read the rest
See update below.
Barack Obama isn’t wasting any time promoting and setting up a process for implementing his plan for change. There is a new web site up, CHANGE.GOV, where his governing agenda and transition process will be accessible to the world.
Very impressive. This clearly has been planned for a while, and you can bet that John McCain… Read the rest
Every advocacy group is reveling in the results of the election, looking forward to working in a world and in an administration where reason and civility and reality are at the fore. In the previous post, I excerpted a number of the messages they have sent to supporters with a call for renewed energy and action.
But only Michael Moore… Read the rest
The consensus bottom line: This is just the beginning.
Gloria A. Totten, Progressive Majority
The message couldn’t be clearer: voters wanted progressive change. They elected an outstanding progressive as the next president. They put Democrats solidly in control of the Congress. And, they elected 79 great Progressive Majority candidates to state and local office! More results will be coming in
Barack Obama has won in a landslide and will soon be at the helm of this nation. Thank all powers, large and small, for that.
A new era is beginning, which, based on my experience, I can only liken to the Kennedy presidency, when a generation of young people felt a dawning of a new world in which their work,… Read the rest
Rachel Maddow condemns “The New Poll Tax”
I agree — this has to be fixed before 2012.
But that’s only one of many problems our presidential elections have.
Close to home, Wayne Green of the Tulsa World wrote up his ideas on An agenda for election reform. A more expansive analysis and corrective is posted at monkeyinmymind.com: How… Read the rest
The search results sweep by the US spy industry continues:
Google to feds: Back off
Google lashed out at the U.S. Justice Department on Friday, saying that a high-profile request for a list of a week’s worth of search terms must not be granted because it would disclose trade secrets and violate the privacy rights of its users.
and… Read the rest
It’s pretty pathetic when former intel officers have to explain in detail to the world something as obvious as the fact that it’s a bad thing to expose the identity of a spy, but apparently that’s what it’s come to.
I never thought I’d be rooting for the CIA — see my earlier post on this as a… Read the rest
