BE WARNED that this thread is basically a philosophical chicken-fighting ring. It will get fairly wild and wooly, and there may be more-than-usual tolerance for trolls. Allusions, however, to sexual revenge/violence (you need to be someone’s prison bitch, etc), gendered epithets (bitch, ho, sissy, girly-man, I-can-see-your-adams-apple), gendered patronizing, racial epithets (ANY and all), personal threats, [...]

This morning, between getting ready for work and cooking breakfast, I dashed off a quick piece for Counterpunch, floating the idea that the anitwar movement — that has once again been sidelined by the Democratic Party and the media — could cross over during the Presidential primaries and vote as Republicans… casting a Republican primary [...]

“Greetings from the non-bar code people,” began one recent missive, before launching into a high-flying jeremiad against our disconnected “multi-national global corporate techno-glitzy food system” with its “industrial fecal factory concentration camp farms.” (The dangerous pileup of modifiers is a hallmark of Joel’s rhetorical style.) Like any good jeremiad, this one eventually transits from despair [...]