Sid Davis
Climate Change: The Corporate Right Can Run but They Can't Hide
Written by Sid Davis |
The old saying about there being two types of people in the world can apply to almost anything, but increasingly it applies to belief in human-caused global warming. Either you buy it or you don’t. Lately, the buyers are dwindling in number due to a pushback against climate science on a number of fronts, and by the scientists’ human failings being exploited by a well-organized corporate opposition. Part of the success with this pushback is due to the fact that global warming itself seems difficult to understand. But as Albert Einstein once said about his Theory of General Relativity, really anyone can understand it if it’s explained the right way.
Low Income People Caused the Global Economic Meltdown
Written by Sid Davis |
Republicans were rebuked by the electorate on November 4th, but we can still see them out there in the woods, huddled around a fire, making plans to storm Castle Potomac again. Although their coded racist attacks failed to vanquish Barack Obama, they have successfully used the technique for decades, and they aren’t about to abandon it now—even immediately post-election. And in fact, while we’ve been busy congratulating ourselves on Obama’s upcoming presidency, a shiny new reconfiguration of the same old coded Republican racism has already been unveiled by hacks like Rush Limbaugh, Arnold Schwarzeneggar, and a rabid bat swarm of noxious rightwing bloggers.
A Beginning, Not an Ending
Written by Sid Davis |
We’ve all run this marathon before, and we know the sickening feeling of being outsprinted to the tape. We know about coming in second. And we’re so good at it—five out of the last seven races we’ve come up short—that we expect to lose. We heard the trumpets of doom for two solid years: the Democrats will figure out a way to blow it. And they might have, and perhaps even looked certain to after annointing a black man as their candidate. But a funny thing happened on the way to the loser’s circle. Americans proved that the only color more important to them than black is green.
Joe the Plumber on the Analyst’s Couch
Written by Sid Davis |
The John McCain campaign machine, running on fumes in the last frantic days before the election, still won’t abandon the desperate Joe-the-Plumber narrative it rolled out in an attempt to create a game changing moment in the third presidential debate. Even with poor Joe now exposed to the nation as non-licensed, a non-taxpayer, and even a non-Joe—his real name is Samuel Wurzelbacher—the Republicans have decided to defend their poor, beleaguered symbol until the bitter end.
The Jackal of Capitalism
Written by Sid Davis |
The fight between Congress and George W. Bush over the 700 billion dollar Wall Street bailout package has stalled for several reasons. One is the question of oversight. Democrats suggest that a legislative or judicial body should oversee the process of ladling out our wealth in the corporate soup kitchen, while Bush loathes the idea of such interference, though the U.S. Constitution says this is exactly how government is supposed to work. The spectacle of this battle should awaken Americans at long last from the greatest mass hallucination in human history—namely that capitalism and democracy go hand in hand.
