AMURIKAN PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: “American Prisons Facts” / Stephen Fry
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Category Archives: Reactionism
CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY: “Everybody Must Get Stoned” / Mr Fish
h/t: Truthdig.com
PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: “The Shame of America’s Gulag” / Chris Hedges
Illustration by Mr. Fish
If, as Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote, “the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons” then we are a nation of barbarians. Our vast network of federal and state prisons, with some 2.3 million inmates, rivals the gulags of totalitarian states. Once you disappear behind prison walls you become prey. Rape. Torture. Beatings. Prolonged isolation. Sensory deprivation. Racial profiling. Chain gangs. Forced labor. Rancid food. Children imprisoned as adults. Prisoners forced to take medications to induce lethargy. Inadequate heating and ventilation. Poor health care. Draconian sentences for nonviolent crimes. Endemic violence.
SUPREME COURT BIGOT: “Voting Rights Act” / Bob Englehart
The white-wing reactionary troll Antonin Gregory Scalia is a fucking racist bigot!
h/t: Truthdig.com
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- Is Antonin Scalia the Vilest Person in Washington? (alternet.org)
- Rachel Maddow: Antonin Scalia ‘a troll’ (politico.com)
ENLIGHTENMENT: “Better Read Than Dead” / Mr Fish
h/t: Truthdig.com
POLITICS: “GOPs Immigration Reform ‘Problem is Their Base is Old White People'” / Paul Krugman
POLITICAL DELUSION: The Amazing Atheist / “American Violence”
ECONOMICS: “Extortionists Versus Con Men” / Paul Krugman
One faction basically wants to use the party’s power of obstruction: threaten to provoke a crisis over the debt ceiling — in fact, do this again and again — and thereby force Obama to implement the GOP agenda.
The other faction wants to achieve the same goals by stealth. Pretend that what you’re really concerned about is debt and the fate of our children; cultivate the Very Serious People and the deficit scolds; impersonate a budget wonk; and smuggle the agenda in by dressing it in fiscal responsibility camouflage.
RATIONALIZATION: “Cenk Uygur Asks Alex Jones, ‘Have You Ever Sought Mental Health Treatment?’” / Cenk Uygur
h/t: alternet.org
CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY: “After Louie Giglio Bows Out, Some Ask If Conservative Evangelicals Are Welcome In The Public Square” / Jaweed Kaleem
Now that the Rev. Louie Giglio, the Atlanta pastor who was going to pray at President Barack Obama’s inauguration but came under fire for an anti-gay sermon he gave in the mid-1990s, has bowed out, some conservative Christians and evangelicals have began to ask: are they welcome in the public square?
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The inaugural committee says that Giglio’s comments on gay people “don’t reflect our desire to celebrate the strength and diversity of our country at this Inaugural” and is seeking someone else to deliver the benediction. Who should it choose?
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