Was I Wrong About the Denver Police Department?
In 1998 I was semi-involved in something really unsettling, and I’m now wondering if I just badly misinterpreted what happened.
The story begins in graf 4. Here’s where it gets interesting: Read more
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Do Billionaires Get a Bad Rap?
A famous man once said “it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
I thought about this as I was talking with my friend Bryan yesterday. The subject was NBA and MLB players striking in protest against the attempted murder of Jacob Blake by the Kenosha PD, and Bryan was saying that it can’t always just be the players. The owners need to stand up, too.
He’s right, but I have very little faith in owners. Read more
If Woody Guthrie Were Still Alive…
…Matthew Grimm’s Dumpster-Fire Days would be his favorite album of the last decade.
My favorite lines from each song:
Salt of the Earth
We gathered in the square to watch Black men hang like a Friday night football game
We’ll greenlight genocide long as some charlatan tells us it’s in Jesus’ name
Tommy Keene Is Playing Kiki’s House
Corporations, Christians, contras, all fronts in one never-ending war
We raged at the sacred and austere, revenge for childhoods lived in fear Read more
CNN: We false equivalence, you decide.
Yes, goddammit, THIS.
Stimulus talks on the brink of collapse as two sides trade blame and get no closer to a deal
BOTH sides are to blame. The people who want to keep us alive are as much at fault as the people who lock kids in cages and think Nazis are very fine people and who don’t care if we live or die. The people who want to give us enough to survive are just as bad as the ones who want to give us nothing.
Brought to you by CNN. We false equivalence, you decide.
Some people will say that words like “scum” and “rotten” are wrong for Objective Journalism — which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. He looked so good on paper that you could almost vote for him sight unseen. He seemed so all-American, so much like Horatio Alger, that he was able to slip through the cracks of Objective Journalism. You had to get Subjective to see Nixon clearly, and the shock of recognition was often painful.
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