ACHOS A Child's History of Science 1750 to 1900 first version
While I’ve been telling friends, family and associates about my new self-published Kindle book (paperback pending; I ordered 20), I thought many times about other diarists’ books mentioned on dKos. I...
View ArticleLooking back on the reparations hearing re 2020
H.R. 40 and the Path to Restorative JusticeMany were impressed by the recent House hearing on reparations led by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. I feel its finest fruits are being erased from the memory hole...
View ArticleSoliciting leads on how State University systems have interacted with their...
I’m fishing for leads on something I expect will be fragmented, which is is sort of the point because I’m interested in what went on in different States of the Union.xSoliciting leads on how State...
View ArticleHow do we get behind the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act here?
I was just on Twitter when I saw this for the first time, and it lit me up that I hadn’t heard it sooner:xThe Senate's 3 black members introduce bill to make lynching a federal crime...
View ArticleWhat's on Twitter today @ShaunKing (Dallas?) updated
Somebody I forgot when might have thought Mr. Shaun King was someone we thought well of here. Some of us do think well of him. Couldn’t find him in search (on me). Learned his work here. translation:...
View ArticleLoyal Dem voter mysteriously double-registered in 2016. Anyone else?
I moved right before November’s election. I filled out the online (California, from L.A. county to San Bernardino county) change-of-address form that was related to the Post Office change of address....
View ArticleReaching out to Pres. Trump through our resistance
I have spent way too much time following MSNBC, of course also here and HuffPo, TPM, etc., and wherever else seemed like it might serve. I truly love the BLM-ers I follow on Twitter (where my username...
View ArticleTrump as our National Drillbit & the Next 4 Years
Trump was elected our president to shake things up, and even the arguments for his unfit-ness suggest he will be our Schumpeter “creative destruction” president. People who were against him did not...
View ArticleWhat SmartMob activities would energize youth for Hillary?
The effort to form an unthinking mob has worked for ages as fascism has demonstrated. What I’m calling SmartMob activities are post-Internet. Occupy tactics plus the social media world we now all live...
View ArticleReally proud of Hillary. Memories of Bill's second term.
Quick hit to say that I am just so proud of Hillary the last few days and the last few weeks. I realize the stakes are existential and that she doesn’t want us to sit back and think “She’s got this,”...
View ArticleGroup Power, the Political Revolution and Stronger Together
Ray Raphael’s Founding Myths is kicking my ass. One thing he maintains in the early chapters — I’m only just past Valley Forge — is that our sense of history and the founders has been...
View ArticleThoughts on Revising the Hillary "Honesty" Meme
Coming from the Sanders side the following might be my own effort(s) at reconciling myself to our candidate and putting in perspective the platform battles. I'm definitely influenced by her speech...
View ArticleNew Guard, Heroes, and Why I'll Stay a Dem
This is a centering exercise for me so slam away. I hope to be self-serving to myself psychologically and for some, what centers me might be their flavor. I supported Bernie from the hour he announced...
View ArticleGot any books to recommend on white-ness? (not snark)
I seem to think I have started to see things about white-ness in a new way. Some of it is offensive to me. All of it makes me wonder what books are out there. I normally ask here first for things like...
View ArticleWe can be Bernie's Revolution no matter what
Under no circumstances will I relinquish what I have seen and felt since the day Bree Newsome climbed down the flagpole. I think back to Michele Obama’s response about being proud of America (much...
View ArticleHuman Justice and Both Candidates (HJ=H+B)
IMHO we are seeing Hillary and Bernie evolve as people on the campaign trail. This morning I watched Hillary’s interview with Rev. Al Sharpton on Politics Nation and her demeanor for the first time was...
View ArticleToward a Stable Idealism
DISCLAIMER: Not intended as a Bernie-Hil diary although I’m for Bernie and there’s some political revolution in here. As for Hillary I blame her campaign for the thrill I’m missing since she still...
View ArticleThe Bulls of Bashan and Bernie
[Disassociated blogspew ahead; pro-Bernie; proceed at your own risk. :) ] If you listen to the Chinese navy, encirclement might be the strategic issue of our time; we are about to see a massive flex of...
View ArticleSmarter and safer gun ammunition?
SmartRounds(.com) as illustrated in the "far out" animation-video below is just one of many innovative efforts to build intelligence into ammunition.Black Lives Matter has exposed the need and selected...
View ArticleVaroufakis on Bankers versus Democracy
The short recap of who Yanis Varoufakis is: that Greek finance minister who called for the vote against austerity and then was thrown out of the government to make the bankers happy as Greece...
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