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Video Fridays: Democracy Waking Up: Black Lives Matter & Insurgent Candidates
Remember this quote from Bernie Sanders, from my post back in May? “One of the greatest tragedies that we face today politically is that most people have given up on the political process. They...
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Tweet of the Day: #noKXL
Great news for a change! President Obama just announced to the world that he has rejected Keystone XL. This. Is. Big. #noKXL pic.twitter.com/DHYF1rQACE — 350 dot org (@350) November 6, 2015 And I can...
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It’s Not About The Mascot
When I began writing this post Monday, it was a VERY different post. I’d read the news that some students and a professor at Western Washington University (WWU, Western), my place of employment for the...
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Awareness vs. Self-Preservation
“It’s good to be exposed to politics and what’s going down here, but it does damage to me. Too much of it can cripple me. And if I really let myself think about it — the violence, the sickness, all...
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The World Needs Trump Like A Fish Needs A Bicycle: I’m Back!
It’s a little embarrassing and quite telling that it took yesterday’s election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States for me to finally turn the lights back on here at Fish &...
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My Post-Election Trumpism-Opposition Begins: Taking It To The Streets
So, in my last post I dusted off Fish & Bicycles and declared my intention to resist the impulse to despair over the barely believable, gulp, election of Donald Trump, and rather, to get to work on...
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Anger Makes Strange Bedfellows, And We Have To Move Past It
So, the photo on top, shot by me, is from right here in Bellingham, Washington, the other photo is from all the way across the country in Wellsville, New York, both of them post-election reactions to...
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Safety Pin Movement Point-Counterpoint: Painfully (Pun Intended) Complicated
Ok, I admit it. I’m a straight, white male and I’ve been wearing a safety pin, not just on my shirt, but I have another one on my coat, so that when I have my coat on, which covers up the safety pin on...
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Stuff We Don’t Need: Yet Another “Progressive” Vanity Organization
So, there’s this guy Van Jones who has been saying a lot of good things, for a while, and this week he announced the start of a new campaign called the #LoveArmy, a new initiative of his Dream Corps...
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Video Fridays – Inauguration Angst Edition: American Tune
If you are like me (aka, a proud leftist), the urge to catastrophize today is considerable. BTW, here’s a must-view Video Fridays bonus video: Samantha Bee and Masha Gessen getting right to the...
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