An understandably vitriolic Special Comment from Keith Olbermann on the recent ‘Supreme’ court decision to allow uncapped corporate spending on political campaigns in the United States.
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Feb 10
Feb 10
Howard Zinn on American Empire
The linked clip is an adaptation from Zinn’s book on American Empire and is worth eight and a half minutes of your day.
Zinn died a week ago and in a recent interview said he’d like to be remembered for “getting more people to realize that the power which rests so far in the hands of people with wealth and guns, that the power ultimately rests in people themselves and that they can use it.”
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Oct 09
Oct 09
Hot Kakapo Action
Last week I paid twenty bucks for seven minutes with Sirocco the Kakapo as part of New Zealand Conservation Week at the Auckland Zoo. Not sure how much Stephen Fry’s photographer paid, but I certainly didn’t get as intimate as this. Lucky bastard…