Posted in US Politics, politics/world, Politics on Jan 4th, 2008 34 Comments »
Who could not be heartened by the news this morning that the Black candidate for the President of the United State of American has won the Iowa caucus? Who didn’t feel a lump in their throat when they heard Barack Obama give his acceptance speech?
“They said this country was too divided, too disillusioned to ever […]
Posted in US Politics on Dec 22nd, 2007 1 Comment »
Posted in US Politics on Dec 16th, 2007 3 Comments »
Another classic.
Posted in US Politics on Nov 29th, 2007 3 Comments »
Its about 12 months to the next US Presidential election. Of course, with candidates not yet decided we have all those debates to enjoy where the various party nominees try to woo their party and its members with a combination of charm, rhethoric and cold hard cash.
I have to admit, I haven’t paid much […]
Posted in US Politics, Working Class, Film, TV on Nov 9th, 2007 2 Comments »
This quote comes from “Heard on the Picketline” section of the Hollywood writers strike weblog.
This morning, I picketed with an 86 year writer, who wrote for ‘Mr. Ed.’ He said, ‘It pisses me off that that fucking horse wound up speaking Italian, Polish and Rumanian, and I never made more than a nickel.’”
I have to […]
Posted in Economy, US Politics on Nov 8th, 2007 No Comments »
From the always excellent Tom Tomorrow and The Modern World. Tom’s weblog is well worth checking out as well.
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Irish Society, US Politics, Irish Working Class on Sep 20th, 2007 7 Comments »
A couple of people have commented on the analysis of class as presented in Tuesday’s post. It was taken from Michael Zweig’s book, The Working Class Majority: America’s Best Kept Secret (Cornell University Press, 2000). It is such an excellent piece of work that I’ve decided to carry on with doing my bit to […]
Posted in US Politics, Iraq, politics/world on Aug 23rd, 2007 3 Comments »
So George Bush says that Iraq is like Vietnam, despite denying the link before. That he should make the speech yesterday, which the New York Times says is the beginning of an ‘initiative to shape the debate on Capitol Hill in September’, before a bunch of hoary Army veterans is interesting.
Interesting not because it’s […]
Posted in US Politics on Jul 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
It seems that although Libby was the one convicted of lying to the Grand Jury, it is widely understood that he was not acting independently. Rather, it was under the direction of Cheney and Rove that he told reporters that the wife of Joseph Wilson, who revealed that the Niger information in Bush’s State of […]
