My Father's America
It was 1974, and I was thirteen years old. My father was terminally ill with cancer, and we watched John Wayne movies every Sunday. I am often reminded of his disapproval when I wore a pair of jeans,...
View ArticleTolerating the Intolerable in Guatemala
I suspect that many Americans have a similar story of desperation in their Family Tree. That if not for the relative freedom and opportunity on American shores, they would have been born into...
View ArticleAnd Now Hobby Lobby? America Can't Afford Another Republican President
When Americans elect a President, they carry out their sacred power to screw up two of the three branches of the Federal government at one time. Thus, Republican Presidents have punished the nation...
View ArticleTalk Radio Live at 11 Becuz... Forward 13
Film maker Patrick Lovell joins us at 11:30 EDT talkin' about his Forward 13 project.Click Here to Join our Live Chat 11am to Noon ET to add your 2¢ to the Show convo. Scroll down past our animated Net...
View ArticlePlanet Greed is Doomed - A Short Cartoon
Sometimes art says it best. Ok, my self-made, Xtranormal app cartoon falls way short of art, but it does say a lot!The Plot: A visitor from planet "We are All One" visits planet "Greed" hoping to...
View ArticleThe Reagan Counter-Revolution Crushes the American Dream
Chapter 7 of Let's Do What Works and Call it Capitalism - The Reagan Counter-Revolution Crushes the American DreamChapter 7. The Reagan Counter-Revolution Crushes the American Dream"In this present...
View ArticleThis Side of the Dream--An Immigrant's Story
I run a service industry facility in the Greater Los Angeles area. My staff are gardeners, locker room and laundry attendants, janitors, pool and maintenance technicians. They are the backbone of our...
View ArticleSolving the Crisis of the 21st Century Never has Uncontrolled Capitalism been...
Solving the Crisis of the 21st Century. Part II, Chapter 1 of Let's Do What Works and Call it CapitalismBy Dan RikerPart II. Solving the Crisis of the 21st Century"Never has uncontrolled capitalism...
View ArticleBreeaking the Political Gridlock with a New Progressive Movement
PART II. CHAPTER 2. BREAKING THE POLITICAL GRIDLOCK WITH A PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENTFrom Dan Riker's Let's Do What Works and Call it Capitalism"Our country — this great republic — means nothing unless it...
View ArticleChristie's Fall: Mall Stall by Football. And That's Not All.
No matter that it looks like "Christie cronies made sure they protected their boss [from the GWB] like he was a Sicilian godfather in the wrong pasta joint"(1) The record of failures by this...
View ArticleJunk the American Dream
Can It. Throw it away. Flush it down the falls. This American Dream that has cramped our nation's imagination for decades will, if not discarded, strip we 99% of Americans of even the last...
View ArticleThank you, America, it’s been fun!
I don’t know how better to react to the recent win by the Republicans then to say: hey, it’s been great, America! For six years, you let me live a dream, believing that the United States had finally...
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America Unravels Some More
Earlier this week, prior to the disastrous 2014 election results, I raised the question of whether my, or your, individual vote really matters anymore—whether anything would change regardless of which...
View ArticleSo much for that American Dream of a Gold Watch and a Guaranteed Pension
Those too, are about to go the way of other American Dreams -- a guarantee of a Good Job, at a Good Wage -- if only you're willing to work hard enough.About to evaporate like simple but foundational...
View ArticleAbout that Rider to cut Pensioners' Benefits -- Guess who's to Blame
This screw-the-worker saga is rich. Rich with irony, ire, and incomplete coverage.So take a few minutes and get up to speed. If your BP can handle it, that is ... if not, I suggest this other...
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Our Wealth Divides are Widening
-- iceage.wikia.com It's like watching the 'Grand Canyon' of earning basic Human Dignity getting wider and wider -- only that it's not really so "grand" when you drill into some of the latest data...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren and the 11 Tenets of Progressivism
Elizabeth Warren at Netroots Nation 2014, Transcript:[...] Let’s talk about this fight. This is a fight over economics, a fight over privilege, a fight over power. But deep down it is a fight over...
View ArticleJohn Oliver deconstructs "America's Wealth Lottery"
And he does it with humor and keen observations of the 'stupid stuff' we tell ourselves, as working class Americans.{... Obligatory 'Course Language' warning ...} Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:...
View ArticleThis is not the America I Grew Up In
This is not the America I grew up in. Everyone knows it, but most choose to pretend. They pretend we are still a country that hard work will pay off, and let you achieve the American Dream. That our...
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