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Occupy Oakland: From Flowers in Your Hair to the Dark Side


Posted by Omnipotent Poobah

The Bay area has a long history of protest. At 1960s UC Berkeley, Vietnam war opponents started as idealistic, flowers in your hair protestors who morphed into building grabbers. Next door, the hard-scrabble neighborhoods of East Oakland are the perfect breeding ground for discontent. It’s the right place for the Occupy movement to set up tents. Plenty of people with grievances and lots of rich people to snub. But, Occupy Oakland has a dark side.

Evangelicals Must Pray Early, Pray Often


Posted by Omnipotent Poobah

All voting blocks – left and right – have fallen for the charlatans’ siren song at some point. As a result, they make such counter-intuitive deviations from common sense they end up hurting their causes more than helping them. Evangelicals are taking their turns this time around.

California: Thinking Long and the Missing Stakeholders


Posted by Omnipotent Poobah

California – which has a budget crisis (that when scaled) is equal to or greater than the country’s – has a bipartisan “supercommittee” called the Think Long Committee to generate ideas for how to get the state out of the mess it’s in. That’s not a bad idea. Undoubtedly, someone should be thinking long.

Veteran’s Day: May the Stories of Those Who Served Live On


Posted by Omnipotent Poobah

As I write this two American flags hang on my wall. Both are folded into militarily tight triangles and protected by flag boxes. One contains a Purple Heart, the other the WWII Service Medal and Pacific Service Medal. One day my own flag with a Cold War Service Medal will join them.

A Hell of a Way to Rally People to Your Cause


Posted by Omnipotent Poobah

One man’s immorality is another man’s religion, even if the immorality of that religion is pointed out by atheists. The same is true for atheists and what they believe. People are what they are, sometimes inconsistent, narrow-minded, and disagreeable. But, there’s the message and then there’s the way you deliver the message.