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Electric Monk
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Electric Monk's Journal
April 20, 2016
I've got some real estate here in my bag
March 25, 2016
Why Young People Are Right About Hillary Clinton - by Matt Taibbi
I was disappointed to hear that Rolling Stone had endorsed Hillary Clinton, but I also understood. In many ways, the endorsement by my boss and editor, Jann Wenner, read like the result of painful soul-searching, after this very magazine had a profound influence on a similar race, back in 1972.
Jann explains this eloquently in "Hillary Clinton for President":
(big snip)
Instead, the millions of young voters that are rejecting Hillary's campaign this year are making a carefully reasoned, even reluctant calculation about the limits of the insider politics both she and her husband have represented.
For young voters, the foundational issues of our age have been the Iraq invasion, the financial crisis, free trade, mass incarceration, domestic surveillance, police brutality, debt and income inequality, among others.
And to one degree or another, the modern Democratic Party, often including Hillary Clinton personally, has been on the wrong side of virtually all of these issues.
much more
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-young-people-are-right-about-hillary-clinton-20160325
Jann explains this eloquently in "Hillary Clinton for President":
(big snip)
Instead, the millions of young voters that are rejecting Hillary's campaign this year are making a carefully reasoned, even reluctant calculation about the limits of the insider politics both she and her husband have represented.
For young voters, the foundational issues of our age have been the Iraq invasion, the financial crisis, free trade, mass incarceration, domestic surveillance, police brutality, debt and income inequality, among others.
And to one degree or another, the modern Democratic Party, often including Hillary Clinton personally, has been on the wrong side of virtually all of these issues.
much more
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-young-people-are-right-about-hillary-clinton-20160325
July 2, 2015
Welcome to DU :) Ignore the assholes, of which we have more than a few.
They are why GCRA exists on DU, as well as having the GC & RKBA group which we are currently in.
/GCRA host
January 4, 2015
I think this paragraph from The New Yorker really sums up the gun control debate here on DU
The underlying politics of gun control has always been the same: the majority of Americans agree that there should be limits and controls on the manufacture and sale and ownership of weapons intended only to kill en masse, while a small minority feels, with a fanatic passion, that there shouldnt. In a process familiar to any student of society, the majority of people in favor of gun sanity care about a lot of other things, too, and think about them far more often; the gun crazy think about guns all the time, and vote on the issue with fanatic intensity.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/newtown-lawsuit-moral-work-gun-control
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/newtown-lawsuit-moral-work-gun-control
October 23, 2014
http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1245912-bruce-mackinnon-s-war-memorial-cartoon-touches-hearts-worldwide
Toon: Canadian War Memorial
http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1245912-bruce-mackinnon-s-war-memorial-cartoon-touches-hearts-worldwide
July 3, 2014
Improper use of punctuation can drastically alter meaning.
eg. adding a comma where it doesn't belong
or leaving commas out
same with periods
and it works with quotation marks, too, as has already been discussed up-thread.
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