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How I’m Getting Richer Every Day - Darius Foroux

This was a recommended read on Pocket, and it's the kind of bullshit financial advice article that gives me hives. All of it is decent personal financial advice...if your income is enough for you to have a surplus. And about 50% of American households don't. To everyone else? It's condescending bootstraps talk.

https://dariusforoux.com/how-im-getting-richer/

Yes, it's US Civil War night here at chez gcupc. What kind of fucked up world are we living in when Sherman memes are politically topical?

"Marching Through Georgia" - Union Civil War Song

*atlanta heard burning in the distance*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-jtYT5COvU

John Brown’s body lies mouldering in the grave, but his soul goes marching on!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il2qwO7WvUQ

DO IT AGAIN, UNCLE BILLY

How Cynical Is the Democratic Party's Support for Identity Politics? (Plus a Note on the Ocasio-Crowley Contest) | naked capitalism

Another case study of Democratic Party hypocrisy.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/06/cynical-democratic-partys-support-identity-politics-plus-note-ocasio-crowley-contest.html

Unlocked And Loaded: Families Confront Dementia And Guns | naked capitalism

A public health warning about the dangers of guns to the elderly and their relatives.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/06/unlocked-loaded-families-confront-dementia-guns.html

Civility, Schmivility: A Quaker Dialectic, Then & Now - A Friendly Letter

Chuck Fager on Quakers, Abolition, and Civility

http://afriendlyletter.com/civility-schmivility-a-quaker-dialectic-then-now/

Comrade Lady Foppington

EARLY WARNING SIGNS OF FASCISM

1. Powerful and continuing nationalism
2. Disdain for human rights
3. Identification of enemies as a unifying cause
4. Rampant sexism
5. Controlled mass media
6. Obsession with national security
7. Religion and government intertwined
8. Corporate power protected
9. Labor power suppressed
10. Disdain for intellectual and the arts
11. Obsession with crime and punishment
12. Rampant cronyism and corruption

Nikki Haley's Got A Lot of Nerve; She Really Needs a Waffle - A Friendly Letter

Which brings me to Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the UN, who just threw a fit because that body's poverty investigator (aka special rapporteur) after making an extensive study trip cross the nation,  dared to call for examining poverty in America.

http://afriendlyletter.com/nikki-haleys-got-a-lot-of-nerve-she-really-needs-a-waffle/