Double yawn, indeed. Wow. A hearing. Completely ignored by most everyone (good catch, Kevin) and not even a stream provided on the CPC’s own site. Not fooled.

A-yep. Part of what turned me off of higher ed before completing my PhD (no regrets) was watching how CUNY handed 5-year fellowships to anyone coming in with a degree from Brown, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, etc….while if you came from University of Fill in State you were limited to book stipends, work study and adjunct lecturing (read: slave labor).

Oh, and btw: the PTB will LOVE it if we the people stop producing a few amongst us who can remember and analyze the events of the past. Getting rid of historians is an important step on the road to “We have ALWAYS been at war with Oceania…”

History’s a no-brainer program?

I guess it’s my fault that I’m in a cube rather than a tenure-track job…oh wait, that’s because our corporate colleges are using adjunct lecturers who make nothing and don’t get benefits or have any job security for 60% of their teaching.

Yep, my fault for wanting a free ride.

MATH & SCIENCE!! STANDARDIZED TESTS!!! FUCK LANGUAGE, THE ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES!!! GOTS TO KEEP UP WITH THOSE ASIANS!!!1

WTF?

Exactly.

Why all the election coverage? Haven’t we learned over the last decade or so that elections in this country don’t mean shit?

Yep-we can’t catch up, Mr. A-day-late-to-the-discussion!

Funny how so many are able to overlook the most clear point: since the Tsarnaevs, it turns out, did plan and execute a bombing, obviously the FBI DID fail at its mission in this case. Obviously.

Very good point, valid and relevant.

I’ll also mention a technical point: “African American” is an ethnic designation, not racial. The ethnic group to which one belongs is determined by culture. Consider those of African descent born/living in Europe: they may be genetically-and therefore racially-the exact same as, say, Obama but they’re obviously not African American. The conflation of ethnicity, race and nationality has been used by the PTB to divide us plebes (see Israel/Palestine and the dialog about Israeli policies generally) to great effect. Such as here, where you had folks voting for Obama of upper-class American WASP cultural background because they thought they were electing some mellowed-and-sophisticated-by-the-years hybrid of Huey Newton and MLK.

Oh and to answer your question directly, it’s because “clandestine democratic party booster” is one of the two facets of this site…the other being, I’m starting to suspect “outlet for progressive utterances where those who make them can be whipped back into the democratic camp” is the other facet.

Thank you for this great and needed comment. It vitiates a lot of trite bullshit spouted on this thread before it.

I guess I’m really disappointed by myself in how surprised I’ve been at trad-dem types’ ability to whistle past the graveyard on stuff like this, dismissing these ideas as only held by “crazies & red-staters”-despite the fact that right here on FDL, you have people telling you that they see where these responses are coming from and a poll showing about 1 in 5 democrats and 1 in 3 independents feel the same as “nearly half of republicans.”

But wait, that’s right: all of us willing to criticize Obama, his administration, the Clintons and the DLC are clearly actually GOP moles…

Ah, the limitations of lifestyle politics. This is why progressives are, well, progressively leary of being beaten with the “social issues” stick back into the arms of Democrats. When the chips are down unfortunately these mainstream LGBT groups all too often say to those who stand with them: we got ours and won’t waste our effort on you. I mean, toeing the establishment line on Manning so that uniforms can be worn in a parade?! Priorities?

Completely agree with everything you’re saying. To me the mask slipped off completely the day after the election with Ms. Hamsher’s congrats to O’s campaign. As I said then: no way she would have offered the same to Romney had he won what was, in truth, a fairly tight election. The creeping, subtle glad-handing of Democrats as part of the problem in this country on this site really is deleterious. Getting tired of all the articles screaming about how Republicans are responsible for all our problems. And these are the articles that get preference, front-paged often. Criticizing Democrats is a small cottage trade here.

Just describing what I see…

Yep, you’re experiencing more willful ignorance from “Team D”…

*sighs*

Riddle me this, oldgold: if this is such unimportant or irrelevant legislation (so unimportant that you don’t mind it being completely gutted), why was it pushed so hard during the campaign?

Good on the Daily Show. Let’s see if anyone else takes notice now. Because if not, it kind of doesn’t matter…sorry…some folks call me a cynic.

And people altered, at their pleasure, the customary significance of words to suit their deeds: irrational daring came to be considered the “manly courage of one loyal to his party”; prudent delay was thought a fair-seeming cowardice; a moderate attitude was deemed a mere shield for lack of virility, and a reasoned understanding with regard to all sides of an issue meant that one was indolent and of no use for anything. Rash enthusiasm for one’s cause was deemed the part of a true man; to attempt to employ reason in plotting a safe course of action, a specious excuse for desertion. (5) One who displayed violent anger was “eternally faithful,” whereas any who spoke against such a person was viewed with suspicion. One who laid a scheme and was successful was “wise,” while anyone who suspected and ferreted out such a plot beforehand was considered still cleverer. Any who planned beforehand in order that no such measures should be necessary was a “subverter of the party” and was accused of being intimidated by the opposition. In general, the one who beat another at performing some act of villainy beforehand was praised, as was one who urged another on to such a deed which the latter, originally, had no intention of performing.

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.82.4

But everything’s totally different after 9/11…

Seconded. What, specifically, makes him progressive. Don’t mention that he’s a Democrat, that means nothing.

See, I keep seeing things like this front-paged and I have to wonder: how is this not an official Democrat booster site? This is only newsworthy in its own right and deserving of the headline it gets if the audience is expected to see electing Democrats as a goal in its own right. Honestly, the veil is fairly thin at times…

”Instead, all they have is the psychological fear and terror that now occupies their souls. They fear that their home or a neighbor’s home could be bombed at any time by a US drone”

This is the point. “Mission Accomplished” for the U.S. PTB.

Mike Bloomberg is an aspirant to the actual original definition of a tyrant: an executive with no constitutional limitations on his power. From him, this doesn’t surprise me at all. Much as I love my adopted hometown, his reelections were what gave the lie to NYC’s “uniquely liberal” politics. It’s still a part of ‘murka.

She’s Stephen Colbert’s big sister. Somehow I don’t think we have to worry about her selling out.

If those count as credentials to you, you’re going to be repeatedly duped and constantly disappointed.