FIRE ALL THE THINKERS

Perhaps we should be thankful that that marionette of the Iranian theocracy who calls himself Ahmadinejad has called for a purge of the liberal and secular teachers from Iranian universities. It should give us a pause to think about the purge currently being organized by the Right against American professors. What does it say about a society, that it won't let its teachers say what they want in the classroom?

GREAT HUMOR FROM GREG PALAST

My favorite line in this article on the class war:

Of course, there are killjoys who cling to that Calvinist-Marxist belief that a system forever fattening the richest cannot continue without end.
Professor Michael Zweig, Director of the State University of New York's Center for Study of Working Class Life, put it in culinary terms: "Today's pig is tomorrow's bacon."

Today's pig: tomorrow's bacon.

In their styes with all their backing
They don't care what goes on around

-George Harrison (1943-2001)

FROM BILLMON

WALLERSTEIN THROWS A DAMPER ON IT

The reigning metaphor in this one is that of a tiger at bay...

LYRICS TO RADIOHEAD'S OPTIMISTIC

This just seemed appropriate right now...

"Optimistic"

Flies are buzzing around my head
Vultures circling the dead
Picking up every last crumb
The big fish eat the little ones
The big fish eat the little ones
Not my problem give me some

You can try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
[x2]

This one's optimistic
This one went to market
This one just came out of the swamp
This one dropped a payload
Fodder for the animals
Living on an animal farm

If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
[x2]

I'd really like to help you man
I'd really like to help you man.....
Nervous messed up marionette
Floating around on a prison ship

If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
Dinosaurs roaming the earth [x3]

DAHR JAMAIL TRIES TO CHEER ME UP

by claiming that the US is losing control of al-Anbar province... now, if the sectarian fights would end in the sort of gang truce that preceded the 1992 Los Angeles arson attack...

LABOR DAY, FROM WIKIPEDIA:

See the article on May Day:

"The U.S. version of Labor Day was a creation of the 1880's
Knights of Labor and was adopted officially in 1887 in the U.S. in an attempt to
disassociate labor activism from the radical left."

Hope you had a happy Subservience-To-Capital Day!

THE SACRED ALLIANCE

The alliance of convenience between the Zionists of AIPAC and the pseudo-Christian Right ought to feel a little strain when the memberships read this article...