What a great time to be rich says Charles Blow in the NY Times. Poor? Not so much.
I’m confused by NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. In Idaho he says our union should fight to preserve tenure and seniority. But here in Illinois he praises the quisling IEA President Ken Swanson for giving it away.
Yesterday’s pro-Walker rally featuring Sarah Palin brought dozens of tea baggers to the Madison Capitol steps.
New legal documents prove that NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a total asshole.
Derrick Rose? Not since Michael Jordan. What an incredible performance. No link. I’m just sayin’.
Washington Post understatement tweet of the year: washingtonpost In D.C., Obama falls short of hopes.
The truly educated become conscious. They become self-aware. They do not lie to themselves. They do not pretend that fraud is moral or that corporate greed is good. They do not claim that the demands of the marketplace can morally justify the hunger of children or denial of medical care to the sick. They do not throw 6 million families from their homes as the cost of doing business. Thought is a dialogue with one’s inner self. Those who think ask questions, questions those in authority do not want asked. They remember who we are, where we come from and where we should go. They remain eternally skeptical and distrustful of power. And they know that this moral independence is the only protection from the radical evil that results from collective unconsciousness. The capacity to think is the only bulwark against any centralized authority that seeks to impose mindless obedience. There is a huge difference, as Socrates understood, between teaching people what to think and teaching them how to think. Those who are endowed with a moral conscience refuse to commit crimes, even those sanctioned by the corporate state, because they do not in the end want to live with criminals—themselves.
“It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself,” Socrates said. Chris Hedges
Fred Klonsky 