19th century slavery created the GOP, will 21st century slavery (and a feckless 2012 field) be its demise?

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  January 2nd at 09:13 AM  | 

Will 2012 bring an end to the Republican Party? It would only be fitting that a party formed almost 160 years ago on the basis of stopping the expansion of slavery would be destroyed by its support of the modern day expansion of slavery of a different sort. That is exactly where we stand. The GOP was formed in 1854 in reaction to the passage | Read More »

The Occupy Wall Streeters should put down their copies of Das Kapital and pick up this year’s Forbes 400

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  November 7th at 05:41 AM  | 

Back in 2000 or 2001 I read a piece in Newsweek or TIME that discussed flyers whining that they didn’t have enough storage space in the overhead compartment bins on airplanes. I remember writing a letter to the editor saying that the only reason that people had the luxury of being able to whine about such things was that flying had become so safe that | Read More »