Orcinus, April 6, 2010 Sedition: Crime of creating a revolt, disturbance, or violence against lawful civil authority with the intent to cause its overthrow or destruction — Brittanica Concise Dictionary Well, finally. It’s high time somebody had the guts to say the S-word — sedition — right out loud. When the indictments against the Hutaree …
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An Expat’s Guide to the Vancouver Olympics
ourfuture.org, February 12, 2010 Hello, world. We’ve been expecting you. It’s good to see you here, milling around Robson Street in your uniforms and badges, whooshing here and there in what must be a million Official Olympic GM-donated cars, making guesses as to where in town they’ve hidden the fire tower for the Olympic …
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Copenhagen: Getting past the urgency trap
Grist, November 21, 2009 Copenhagen’s still three weeks away, but climate activists are already voicing their enormous disappointment about everything that’s not going to get done there. The heat is rising, and we’re all feeling the overwhelming urgency to get a strong global agreement that will get the laggards off their butts and launch the …
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Postcard From Canada: Why I Missed Obama’s Speech
ourfuture.org, September 13, 2009 True confessions: I missed the health care speech. While the whole lefty blogosphere was watching and blogging and tweeting, I was sacked out in my attic bedroom high on a mountainside in Vancouver, sleeping off a narcotic haze and the exhausting aftermath of a long night spent in the emergency room …
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The Health Care Debate: Another Country Heard From
Orcinus, July 26, 2009 Tommy Douglas — Canada’s answer to Abe Lincoln. He didn’t free the slaves, but he got everybody free health care. One of the big differences between the 1993 Hillarycare debate and our current conversation is that we’re hearing a lot more fact and lot less fiction about how other countries’ systems …
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Mythbusting Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism
Orcinus, June 19, 2009 It’s been a wild couple of weeks for those of us in the wingnutology business. Our services have been in tremendous demand as the mainstream media tries to sort out the meaning of what Scott Roeder and James von Brunn did. I’ve done an average of one radio show every day …
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Tragedy at the Holocaust Museum: Stand Up To Terror
Orcinus, June 11, 2009 The storm I’ve been warning about is coming faster now. To get a sense of just how fast, let’s take stock of what’s been happening on the right wing since President Obama’s inauguration:
Jesus’s Jihadis
Orcinus, May 31, 2009 I arrived in DC for the America’s Future Now! conference, kicked back in my hotel room, and was greeted with the news that Dr. George Tiller — the Kansas gynecologist who has endured shootings, state investigations, public harassment, and more death threats than any thousand of us together can imagine in …
MSU #0001: No First Amendment In Canada
Orcinus, May 1, 2009 This is the first in what promises to be an interminable series of “Making Shit Up” mythbusting posts. (Note the serial number. Four digits may not be enough, but here’s hoping.) It was prompted by Dave’s new post just below, in which Newt Gingrich declares that we don’t have a First …
Blame It On the Parents
Orcinus, April 25, 2009 Some of the commenters below seemed confused or surprised by my asserting that conservative or liberal parenting styles could affect people’s ideas about the prerogatives of authority, and of how they think about ideas like liberty, justice, and accountability. A few thought the whole idea absurd. (It would be interesting …