CommunityMy FDLThere is a website called the World Socialist Website. Frequently, it runs editorial content extolling the supposed virtues of certain Middle Eastern dictatorships in their supposed anti-imperialist struggles against the US and NATO countries during the Arab Spring.Its content has been widely cited by “infantile ultraleftist” bloggers in recent years to form reactionary critiques of the populist Green Movement in Iran, also to create a defensive wall of pseudo-leftist solidarity around Moammar Qaddafi during and after the western intervention in the Lybian revolution. Most...…CommunityMy FDLThere is a website called the World Socialist Website. Frequently, it runs editorial content extolling the supposed virtues of certain Middle Eastern dictatorships in their supposed anti-imperialist struggles against the US and NATO countries during the Arab Spring.Its content has been widely cited by “infantile ultraleftist” bloggers in recent years to form reactionary critiques of the populist Green Movement in Iran, also to create a defensive wall of pseudo-leftist solidarity around Moammar Qaddafi during and after the western intervention in the Lybian revolution. Most...WW…

So many false memes provide a junk food intellectual diet for progressive infotainment addicts, so little time to debunk them all. In today’s homily, Swami Donkeynanda shall consider one of the most enduring.The currently en vogue progressive cliche “Richard Nixon was to the left of Obama” (or its variant “Nixon is the most liberal President since FDR/LBJ”) is one of the most repeated of this amusing orwellian internet game of dissolving historical accuracy via search engine optimisation. And the Nixon meme misses this main point:that for all its structural faults and widespread corruption,...…So many false memes provide a junk food intellectual diet for progressive infotainment addicts, so little time to debunk them all. In today’s homily, Swami Donkeynanda shall consider one of the most enduring.The currently en vogue progressive cliche “Richard Nixon was to the left of Obama” (or its variant “Nixon is the most liberal President since FDR/LBJ”) is one of the most repeated of this amusing orwellian internet game of dissolving historical accuracy via search engine optimisation. And the Nixon meme misses this main point:that for all its structural faults and widespread corruption,...WW…

There is only one worldwide conspiracy, ladies and gentlemen, and its not really a conspiracy, its an economic system and its various political ennabling apparatuses known as “global capitalism.”This is nothing new.And rather than describing a fantastic conspiracy meme all the time, in which we appear to ourselves powerless to confront (since we can’t ever seem to catch the conspirators in the act of conspiring in a way which leads to ridding ourselves of these sinister ghosts and goblins) let us agree that what we actually face is a class struggle between known and knowable opposing social...…There is only one worldwide conspiracy, ladies and gentlemen, and its not really a conspiracy, its an economic system and its various political ennabling apparatuses known as “global capitalism.”This is nothing new.And rather than describing a fantastic conspiracy meme all the time, in which we appear to ourselves powerless to confront (since we can’t ever seem to catch the conspirators in the act of conspiring in a way which leads to ridding ourselves of these sinister ghosts and goblins) let us agree that what we actually face is a class struggle between known and knowable opposing social...WW…

Actually, reading through that last night, I saw several examples of people,mostly conservative but some left of center too, making pretty much the same point as I did, only better.Walker/Worthing is in jail because, and this is according to The Blaze, he took Kimberlin’s iPad and played “keepaway” with it. I don’t know if this is true or not, but if it is, then he deserves to be in jail and his incarceration has nothing to do with today’s proceedings. This has nothing to do with “lawfare” or an activist judge or being a conservative or a liberal. It has to do with being immature and...…Actually, reading through that last night, I saw several examples of people,mostly conservative but some left of center too, making pretty much the same point as I did, only better.Walker/Worthing is in jail because, and this is according to The Blaze, he took Kimberlin’s iPad and played “keepaway” with it. I don’t know if this is true or not, but if it is, then he deserves to be in jail and his incarceration has nothing to do with today’s proceedings. This has nothing to do with “lawfare” or an activist judge or being a conservative or a liberal. It has to do with being immature and...WW…

, I don’t come away with necessarily the same “this is denial of free speech” meme thats being spun hard on the right. Nor do I find the Judge totally deficient in wisdom or clueless as has been alleged. He is musing aloud, after all, and while perhaps not a world class analogist on the order of say, a highly skilled blogger operating at the height of his literary powers (ahem), the Judge does indeed make some points worth considering in light of the fact that no one on either side…yet… has proven much in the way of actual damages. And yes, it appears people on both sides have been damaged...…, I don’t come away with necessarily the same “this is denial of free speech” meme thats being spun hard on the right. Nor do I find the Judge totally deficient in wisdom or clueless as has been alleged. He is musing aloud, after all, and while perhaps not a world class analogist on the order of say, a highly skilled blogger operating at the height of his literary powers (ahem), the Judge does indeed make some points worth considering in light of the fact that no one on either side…yet… has proven much in the way of actual damages. And yes, it appears people on both sides have been damaged...WW…

Socrates hints that the MSM is looking at his story. Maybe the media will take a looksee, but maybe not. A discerning writer may detect enough hiv (high irony value). But its doubtful that many will understand the inside beisbol enough to connect all the dots, especially given the nature of journalism to present both sides as equivalencies when they have a poor grasp of the subject matter.Typically, people on both sides of a story will spin their telltale routine misrepresentations. This “balanced reporting” tends to become whipped by the back /forth and too/fro into a fine souffle of...…Socrates hints that the MSM is looking at his story. Maybe the media will take a looksee, but maybe not. A discerning writer may detect enough hiv (high irony value). But its doubtful that many will understand the inside beisbol enough to connect all the dots, especially given the nature of journalism to present both sides as equivalencies when they have a poor grasp of the subject matter.Typically, people on both sides of a story will spin their telltale routine misrepresentations. This “balanced reporting” tends to become whipped by the back /forth and too/fro into a fine souffle of...WW…

Here is the latest installment in the saga, courtesy of the ever-combative pro se litigant Brett Kimberlin:Interestingly enough, the “moderately conservative” Worthing’s counsel in this matter, Harmon, Curran, Spielerg, & Eisenberg LLP,  also once represented ACORN.Because he and his “business partner” were involved with the ACORN “issue” as bloggers, Kimberlin believes that Worthing’s Maryland counsel now has a conflict of interest, or at least are guilty of working on the wrong side of the Troll Wars’ ideological train track: As noted, my organizations and my...…Here is the latest installment in the saga, courtesy of the ever-combative pro se litigant Brett Kimberlin:Interestingly enough, the “moderately conservative” Worthing’s counsel in this matter, Harmon, Curran, Spielerg, & Eisenberg LLP,  also once represented ACORN.Because he and his “business partner” were involved with the ACORN “issue” as bloggers, Kimberlin believes that Worthing’s Maryland counsel now has a conflict of interest, or at least are guilty of working on the wrong side of the Troll Wars’ ideological train track: As noted, my organizations and my...WW…