between holidays, painting, work on the house, mom’s retirement, and a somewhat bizarre back problem (my entire lower back feels sunburned-ish, only… there’s nothing there. pinched nerve? fibromyalgia? spinal tumor? meanness workin’ its way out of me? i haz a pain in my sawdust, whichever it is!), i’ve been horribly, terribly remiss about blogging as of late.  i keep bookmarking things, thinking, “oh, i need to post that”... then i don’t.  so now i am…  *prepare for onslaught*...

first, leonard pitts speaks out for the poor:

If he’d said it of Jews, he would still be apologizing.

If he’d said it of blacks, he’d be on BET, begging absolution.

If he’d said it of women, the National Organization for Women would have his carcass turning slowly on a spit over an open flame.

But he said it of the poor, so he got away with it.

``He’’ is South Carolina Lt. Gov. André Bauer, running for governor on the GOP ticket. Speaking of those who receive public assistance, he recently told an audience, ``My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that. And so what you’ve got to do is you’ve got to curtail that type of behavior. They don’t know any better.’‘

You read that right. The would-be governor of one of the poorest states there is likens the poor to stray animals.

i love leonard pitts.  i’ve followed his column for years.  on this, he’s definitely spot on, “the monied interests in this country have somehow been able to con the poor into doing just that, fighting tooth and nail when they ought to be standing shoulder to shoulder”.

move to amend “we the corporations” - in response to the citizen’s united ruling, they want to amend the constitution to “Firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.”  amen!

pick locks like a pro! - just in case you need to *fight the man* by breaking into his locker…

the period table… of typefaces - or by leaving him a fancy note…

play.house - the music from House, M.D. - via rollickster - so you’ve something to listen to while confronting the monied interests that would *keep us down*

cats 4 gold - via this guy, simply put your cat in an envelope… just in case you want to *fight the power* on their terms

follow me tattoo socks - you can’t stage a revolution without followers!

how to make olive penguins - because *every* revolution needs snacks…

and, finally, the “support the troops” phrase has irked me as an empty, meaningless bit of patriotism that gets waved around without any real action behind it. 

make it meaningful. - via vencedor, ye wow raid leader extraordinaire.