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Jack Cluth commented on the blog post The Daily Beast: Netroots blogs turn 10 — and are struggling to survive
I can sympathize. I’ve been blogging since just before 9/11…and my blog – What Would Jack Do? – is still about as little-noticed as ever. Part of me hopes that someone with a checkbook will notice and whisk me off the the Left-wing land of fortune and middling fame; alas; I’m still waiting, and I suspect that will remain the case.
I still have a lot to say, and I will continue saying it as long as it’s fun. Fortunately, my overhead is minimal, so it’s not as if I’m in financial straits. Still, after 11+ years, it would be nice to feel relevant. ;-)
Cheers….
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Jack Cluth commented on the blog post “My ninety-one year old mother has asked me to take this vote”
Just across the Columbia River in Oregon, we have to rely on a referendum to do the right thing. What sort of people justifies voting on whether or not a minority class gets to enjoys right the majority take for granted?
Oh, right…we do. Nice.
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Jack Cluth commented on the blog post Washington Legislature Is First in the Nation to Reverse its DOMA Mistake and Pass a Marriage Equality Bill
I live just across the river in Portland, OR, and we’re at least a couple years away, because when last I checked, same-sex marriage has to be decided via referendum in Oregon. What sort of civilized people decides at the ballot box whether a minority class gets to enjoy the same rights the majority accepts as their due?
Oh, yeah…we do. Stay classy….
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Jack Cluth wrote a new diary post: Newt Gingrich 2012: Because hypocrisy and sanctimoniousness come naturally
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I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office. And I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that…. Every person in here knows [...]
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Jack Cluth wrote a new diary post: An open letter to Keith Olbermann
(More at What Would Jack Do? ) Dear Keith, I hope you don’t mind that I address you by your first name. I’ve been a fan for years, so long that I almost feel I know you…or at least as much as you can know someone you’ve seen only on a television screen. From your time at [...]
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Jack Cluth wrote a new diary post: Vaclav Havel: The leader Kim Jong-il could never have been
(More at What Would Jack Do? ) It would be difficult to overstate the odious nature of a despot willing- perhaps even eager- to allow his subjects to starve in order to maintain the world’s fifth-largest military. And a burgeoning nuclear weapons program. And his own gluttony, greed, and self-interest. I would under any other circumstance ignore the [...]
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Jack Cluth wrote a new diary post: It’s the only system we have, so get over your whiny selves…like Adam Carolla did, right?
http://youtu.be/cJD8pZiRIzs (More at What Would Jack Do? ) A very wise man once told me that ’tis far better to be thought a fool and a moron than to be Adam Carolla and remove any lingering doubt . It would be difficult to do justice to the depth of the ignorance and self-satisfied, judgmental contempt with which Carolla dismisses the [...]
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Jack Cluth wrote a new diary post: Lies, damned lies, and virtually anything Newt Gingrich says
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Next to Romney, Gingrich seems authentic. Next to Herman Cain, Gingrich seems faithful. Next to Jon Huntsman, Gingrich seems conservative. Next to Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry, Gingrich actually does look like an intellectual. – Maureen Dowd People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz. – Newt Gingrich
There’s fudging [...]
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Jack Cluth wrote a new diary post: If you’re a Democrats, it’s immorality; if you’re a Republican, it’s private behavior
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Herman Cain really likes to bang (or try to bang) white women. The obvious thing here: wait, you mean a skeevy lobbyist and poisonous food hawker turned out to be a skeevy human being? How could we even think about not electing him president? Oh, and he’s thinking of getting out [...]
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Jack Cluth commented on the diary post There’s no wrong way to do the right thing by Jack Cluth.
I understand the point you’re trying to make, and perhaps my title could have been more artfully crafted. Be that as it may, I don’t think it detracts from the message.
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Jack Cluth wrote a new diary post: There’s no wrong way to do the right thing
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SALEM — Gov. John Kitzhaber announced today he will not allow the execution of Gary Haugen — or any death row inmate — to take place while he is in office. The death penalty is morally wrong and unjustly administered, Kitzhaber said. “In my mind it is a perversion of [...]
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Jack Cluth commented on the diary post America: Land of the brave, home of those scared of anyone and anything different by Jack Cluth.
And why I’m ashamed to say that Michele Bachmann represents the CD I went to high school in.
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Jack Cluth wrote a new diary post: America: Land of the brave, home of those scared of anyone and anything different
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A new study from the Public Religion Research Institute shows that voters across all political parties are uncomfortable with the idea of a president with an uncommon religious identity, such as Mormon, Muslim, or atheist. In particular, Republicans seem particularly averse to a Muslim or atheist president….
We’ve come a long [...]
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Jack Cluth wrote a new diary post: Time to announce the MVP of Occupy Wall Street: Mayor Michael Bloomberg
(Also published at What Would Jack Do? )
All of the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. – Moliere
OK, so calling Michael Bloomberg the Worst Person in the World © (aplogies [...]
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Jack Cluth wrote a new diary post: The GOP: The party of pain, punishment, misery, and death
(Also published at What Would Jack Do? ) What happens when an entire political party embraces the Dark Side? How does assuming the worst of Americans, being willing to ignore the social contract, and openly working to advance the interests of the richest among us make this country a better place? Those things don’t do anything to [...]
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Jack Cluth commented on the diary post Greetings from the dawn of the Age of the Servant Economy by Jack Cluth.
I understand your point, but I still stand by mine. The wealth gap between younger and older generations is unconscionably large- larger than it’s ever been.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/07/us-wealth-gap-young-old_n_1079372.htm
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Jack Cluth wrote a new diary post: Greetings from the dawn of the Age of the Servant Economy
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WASHINGTON — The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job opportunities for young adults and saddled them with housing and college debt. The typical U.S. household headed by a person age 65 [...]
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Jack Cluth wrote a new diary post: Big Tobacco 1, Public Health 0
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In a verdict that will please every American who goes into a convenience store, a judge ruled that the FDA can’t make cigarette companies put graphic and disgusting anti-smoking warnings on their packaging. Thank god. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon uled today that the tobacco companies would likely win a lawsuit [...]
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Jack Cluth wrote a new diary post: DO people change? And do Conservatives deserve absolution more than Liberals?
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Linda Wall, a conservative independent Virginia candidate for the House of Delegates, admitted on Wednesday that she had an affair with a female student as a junior high gym teacher in the early 1970s, but said she has changed…. “I’ve never tried to hide that I was in homosexuality,” she [...]
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Jack Cluth commented on the diary post Every change begins with a single voice. Now we have thousands. Change is good. by Jack Cluth.
Agreed. ;-)
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