Tag: protest
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Don’t Equate Protest With Disrespect
President Donald Trump catapulted the issue of growing numbers of athletes opting to “take a knee” during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner before their contests further into the limelight this past weekend, jumping in on the side of the hyper-patriotic conservative reactionaries who have been, predictably, popping gaskets over this form of protest since…
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Like It Or Not–He IS my President
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trump-protests-in-us-231165 Donald Trump IS my President–no matter how crazy that sounds. Who is next? The guy who played Cliff Clavin on Cheers? Flo, from Progressive Insurance? Chester the Cheetah. Okay, that was a little low, but it’s silly, right? Well, not so silly as trying to say that he’s not. The fact of the…
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Tunesday: Jill Sobule Wants “Our America Back”
Jill Sobule always brings the goods. She’s funny, she’s cute, and she’s crazy cool. She says a bad word in this song, too–fair warning. She does THE BEST concerts, too.
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Monday/Memeday: Peaceful Protest, Virginia Style
Over-react much? This was a protest against mandatory vagina probes in Virginia in 2012. http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/10-pictures-of-riot-police-at-the-virginia-state-c#.owM7VDEmM
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Happy Flag Day
It’s an under-appreciated holiday. Take some time, roll some bocce, fire up the grill. Enjoy a little rant I wrote in the local university newspaper a few years ago on the futility of both flag-burning as a political statement and denouncing those who do it despite the fact that doing one lends creedence to the…
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Random Photo Found via Google Search 7
Random photos from the internet to you, via me. About these posts and the photos in ’em: http://wp.me/p3AOvB-FN
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Still Cold As Hell
It’s still cold, cold, cold. At least the latest (guffaw) “Storm of the Century” glanced by us, dropping about an inch of powder, after the regional meteorologists bent over backwards and lost their shit playing Chicken Little and pledging a foot of heavy wet snow. I love wearing sweaters, but this is getting a little…
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