Category Archives: economic collapse

Karl Marx gets a makeover

Posted on December 23, 2013 by oddmanout215

Just for a laugh, I read aloud from a Guardian UK article in which David Simon expressed qualified approval of some Marxist ideas. Sure enough, my friend Swamp Rabbit called me a commie before I was halfway through the piece. … Continue reading →

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Schumer’s in a bubble with the banksters

Posted on December 5, 2013 by oddmanout215

From New Republic’s interview with New York Sen. Charles Schumer, who, in a weasel-y way, links Sen. Elizabeth Warren with “left-wing blogs”: CS: …You’ve got to look at the effect on average folks. The vast majority of the people employed … Continue reading →

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Where were you when poverty became acceptable?

Posted on November 25, 2013 by oddmanout215

I’ve been thinking of JFK and of those hard-luck cases who work at places like McDonald’s and Walmart. (There but for the grace of God and the wearing of a clown uniform go I.) Those who are old enough can … Continue reading →

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Guess who pays for Walmart’s greed

Posted on November 19, 2013 by oddmanout215

Maybe you saw the news item about the Walmart near Canton, Ohio that’s holding an in-house canned food drive “so associates in need can enjoy Thanksgiving dinner.” It seems retail employees at the monster store are so badly paid, many … Continue reading →

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Poverty, straight up

Posted on November 18, 2013 by oddmanout215

From a blog called killermartinis, a stark account of living in poverty: … Rest is a luxury for the rich. I get up at 6 AM, go to school (I have a full course load, but I only have to … Continue reading →

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Kos pretends to know Elizabeth Warren’s mind

Posted on November 13, 2013 by oddmanout215

Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas has spoken: Trust me with this. Elizabeth Warren isn’t running. She wasn’t an eager Senate candidate. It took lots of cajoling and begging to get her to make that race. And if you’re hesitant to … Continue reading →

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Newsflash! ‘Sisterhood’ is dead

Posted on October 11, 2013 by oddmanout215

Back at the shack, Swamp Rabbit made gagging noises as he paged through The New York Times Book Review. He read aloud a quote-out from a review of The XX Factor, British economist Alison Wolf’s book about the growing divide … Continue reading →

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Walter White says bye-bye, ‘Baby Blue’

Posted on September 30, 2013 by oddmanout215

Walter White to his long-suffering wife Skyler in their final scene together: “I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really… I was alive.” Breaking Bad was an unusually good TV show … Continue reading →

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Media still propping up economic recovery myth

Posted on September 29, 2013 by oddmanout215

My shack in Tinicum was in a miserable state, so I paid Swamp Rabbit to help me clean and paint it. Afterwards, the place looked good from the porch but when I stepped inside, I fell through the floor into … Continue reading →

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Stranger than Strangelove

Posted on September 22, 2013 by oddmanout215

I was back at the shack, beside myself with angst, reading to Swamp Rabbit about a catastrophe that almost happened a half-century ago: A secret document, published in declassified form for the first time by the Guardian today, reveals that … Continue reading →

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