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Old Solar: Equal Rights to the Sun

December 23, 2021 By gmoke

“Produced by Bonnie Symansky, this video, Equal Rights to the Sun (1979) documents citizen [led] solar energy projects organized in the Boston area by the Urban Solar Energy Association (USEA - founded by Barbara Brandt [Susan Baldwin, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: community-activism, do it yourself, energy, environment, history, renewables, solar, solar-energy, sustainability

Impeachment Was Inevitable No Matter Who Won in 2016

November 26, 2019 By gmoke

The first time I realized that the Republicans were going to impeach Bill Clinton was about 46 minutes into his first address to a Joint Session of Congress, also referred to as the 1993 State of the Union, on February 17, 1993. When the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: 2016 election, bill-clinton, hillary-clinton, history, impeachment, trump

Notes on The Language of the Third Reich

August 8, 2018 By gmoke

I first learned of Victor Klemperer’s The Language of the Third Reich in a column Mike Godwin of Godwin’s Law (“As an online discussion continues, the probability of a comparison to Hitler or to Nazis approaches one”) wrote in June 2018 in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: history, language, media, Nazis, propaganda

Some Patterns of American Political Demographics

November 11, 2016 By gmoke

I like to watch/listen to CSPAN while I write and search the Web, especially the weekend Book TV. Around midnight, as September 17 slid into 18 this year (2016), Alan Taylor was talking about his book, American Revolutions: A Continental … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: #election2016, demographics, history

The Politics of PT Barnum

September 10, 2016 By gmoke

Phineas Taylor (PT) Barnum was not only a show business producer and early mass marketeer but also a politician. He was elected to two terms in the Connecticut state legislature (1865 and 1866) representing the town of Fairfield as a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 14thAmendment, CivilWar, connecticut, history, politics, PTBarnum, railroads

Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman

July 27, 2016 By gmoke

Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman NY: The Library of America, 1990 ISBN 0-940450-65-8 Sherman went to West Point in 1836 and graduated in 1840, 4th in his class academically. He served in Florida, South … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: CivilWar, history, USGrant, WilliamTecumsehSherman

On “Resurrecting The Liberal Project”

December 22, 2013 By markbernstein

A century ago,  a popular ex-president stood before a presidential nominating convention and concluded: We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord. And, for the following century, liberals and progressives have lived under the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: barack-obama, global-warming, history, progressive, reading, strategy

World Meteorological Organization: Heatwave Decade

July 16, 2013 By gmoke

The World Meteorological Organization recently released their Global Climate Report: Decade of Extremes (pdf alert: http://library.wmo.int/pmb_ged/wmo_1119_en.pdf and video at http://youtu.be/qSz7U0C0bsY) looking at general weather … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate, climate-change, ecology, energy, environment, green, heatwave, history, meteorology, weather, world-meteorological-organization

On Monday Morning Philosophy, Or, Founders Tell America: “You Figure It Out”

March 21, 2011 By fake-consultant

"...you see, all the majesty of worship that once adorned these fatal halls / was just a target for the angry as they blew up the Taj Mahal..." --From the song "Gasoline", by Sheryl Crow The reason this is coming up today is because I've … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 10th-amendment, article-1-section-8, article-4-section-3, campaign-for-amerias-future, congress, constitution, democrats, economics, elections, history, law, law-and-lawyers, politics, republicans, social-security

On Saving Us From The Immoral, Or “Ready, Fire…Aim!”

August 19, 2010 By fake-consultant

There are those who seem surprised that a defective rattrap like the Mulford law could be endorsed by the legislature of a supposedly progressive, enlightened state. But these same people were surprised when [California's] Proposition 14, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: christianity, gblt, history, law-and-lawyers, lbgt, politics, prop-8, religion, same-sex-marriage, tolerance

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