Is anyone else getting tired or reading this same old editorial on the MOM line from The Asbury Park Press? Just another one using suspect numbers to push a faulty argument.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
The Chafee conundrum
This was a tough race to watch, as Rhode Island Republcian incumbent Lincoln Chafee held off a challenge from the hard right of his party and retained the nomination for the state’s U.S. Senate seat.
The anti-Iraq War Chafee is an interesting character. As MJ Rosenberg writes in the TPM Cafe,
Sen. Chafee is the Senator the neocons (John Bolton, for one) most hate. And he is a good and decent man (and about the least senatorial senator I ever met; I mean that in a good way).
He not only voted against the Iraq War but also voted against the nomination of Samuel Alito and has been critical of the way in whcih the United States has dealt with the Israel-Palestine conflict.
At the same time, a Republican majority in the Senate — even if it includes someone like Sen. Chafee — leaves the GOP with too much power. It will continue to control the various committees and subcommittees, menaing that “drown-the-government-in-the-bathtub” types and anti-environmentl zealots will still have too much decision-making power.
So, as I said, I am torn. In the end, progressives like me have to remember that Sen. Chafee opposed the war and every anti-war candidate that wins is a loss for the Bush foreign policy, but also hope that enough Republicans lose their seats to shift control away. (The best outcome might be a Chafee win with some other Democrat putting the party over the top.)
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Keeping his chin warm???
I saw this on Talking Points Memo and had to pass it along. This qualifies as demented, I think.
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The ‘Great False War’
Derrick Z. Jackson has coined what I hope will be the name that history gives to our misadventure in Iraq: the “Great False War.”
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A new disc for the car
I had some time for a change to hit the CD burner and put this latest personal compilation together (it’s called “Avast ye musical mateys” and its cover features a picture of my nephew with pirate face paiting from the South Brunswick Lions Club circus):
- Steve Earle w/Emmylou Harris — “I Remember You”
- Lucinda Williams — “Sweet Side” (live version from Live @ the Fillmore)
- Outkast — “Idlewild Blue (Don’tchu Worry ‘Bout Me’)”
- Mary J. Blige wU2 — “One”
- Beyonce — “Ring the Alarm”
- The Pussycat Dolls — “Buttons”
- John Mayer — “Waiting for the World to Change”
- Alexi Murdoch — “Orange Sky”
- Snow Patrol — “Chasing Cars”
- Blue October — “Hate Me”
- Iggy Pop — “The Passenger”
- The Velvet Underground — “Rock ‘n’ Roll”
- The Beatles — “Good Day Sunshine”
- OK Go — “Here It Goes Again”
- Audioslave — “Original Fire”
- Steve Earle — “The Revolution Starts Now”
- Lucinda Williams — “Joy” (from Live @ the Fillmore)
- Bruce Springsteen — O Mary Don’t You Weep
That’s the latest disc. Send me suggestions for others by responding to this post by clicking comments below.
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