Maple Spring: Nearly 1,000 Arrested as Mass Quebec Student Strike Passes 100th Day

Here's the full story from this morming's "Democracy Now"

Maple Spring: Nearly 1,000 Arrested as Mass Quebec Student Strike Passes 100th Day

Maple Spring: Nearly 1,000 Arrested As Mass Quebec Student Strike Passes 100th Day

Have you seen/heard anything about this on our corporate-owned media? No, quelle surprise!

Maple Spring: Nearly 1,000 Arrested As Mass Quebec Student Strike Passes 100th Day

Eugene Polley, 1915-2012

The next time your sitting on the sofa and turn on the TV or change channels or, most importantly, silence a commercial look at the device in your hand and think of Eugene Polley, its inventor. Mr. Polley died on Sunday. Yes, it's sadly true that he got paid only a thousand dollar bonus by his employer Zenith (capitalism, anyone) & his invention was replaced by one more like the remote in your hand developed by another Zenith employee, Robert Adler. It has also, as the NYT suggests, "caused decades of domestic discord." (We solve that problem by having two remotes.)

Ultimately Mr. Polley provided his own eulogy (NYT again): "The flush toilet may have been the most civilized invention ever devised, but the remote control is the next most important. It's almost as important as sex."

Let's applaude the creator of one of the only twentieth century inventions that doesn't kill people or bring down the economy. Something very rare indeed.

Interview on 'Voices from the Edge' radio show | Professor Richard D. Wolff

Interview on 'Voices from the Edge' radio show | Professor Richard D. Wolff

Noam Chomsky on WikiLeaks, Obama's Targeted Assassinations and Latin America's Break from the U.S.

Noam Chomsky on WikiLeaks, Obama's Targeted Assassinations and Latin America's Break from the U.S.

Maurice Sendak has gone where the wild things are��

After giving us many years of pleasure both as children ��and then again as adults���� Maurice Sendak has gone where the wild things are����

The problem of ’working from different facts’

More proof of the Republican/tea party fantasy world

The problem of ’working from different facts’

The Republican alternate reality/fantasy

It's becoming abundantly clear that the Republicans live in a reality quite different from the rest of us. In some worlds this is called insanity, in the U.S. today it's called the "Republican brain" (an oxymoron?)

A pox on one of your houses

Emily Montague @ Tribecca Film Festival

Since I live around the corner from the Tribecca Film Festival I always take my camera with me when I go shopping. Here's Emily Montague one of the stars of "Resolution"

Occupy This Album

I just heard a number of cuts from this album - "Occupy This Album" (due out May 15) - on Delphine Blue's "Shocking Blue" on WBAI. Matt Pless wrote & performed this song at Zuccotti Park during the occupation.

Occupy This Album

Photos from the main post office (33st & 8th Ave) tonight