we're all listening to this on wbai (kind of):
9:00-11:00 pm: The New Class War in America
The first broadcast of an event jointly hosted by WBAI and the NY Society for Ethical Culture on June 13, on the topic that dare not speak its name, "The New Class War in America." It featured Paul Krugman, economist and Op-Ed Columnist of The NYTimes; Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!; Greg Palast, author of the new book, "Armed Madhouse: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War"; and Randi Rhodes of Air America's "The Randi Rhodes Show." With questions from the audience that filled to overflow the NYSEC auditorium that night. Edited for WBAI by Christopher Zguris.
kind of? c.i.'s got it on speaker phone. a friend's got a phone up to their speakers in new york. i said, 'why don't we just listen online?' c.i. said, 'oh we'd all have to crowd around the computer and to be honest, some days i just don't want to go near the computer.'
well we can all hear. greg palast is talking right now. 'we're paying a 3 dollar a gallon war tax on our gas.' if you've read armed madhouse (read it), you know what he's talking about. c.i.'s thinking about doing a mag report tonight (of the progressive). i grabbed it for molly ivins and am going to write about that.
molly is not the only good thing in the magazine but she is always the 1st thing that i read.
this is the july issue by the way and it's not available, as an issue, online yet. (or parts of it. ty just told me it's part that's are available.)
so molly's on page 46 of the magazine. there's a cute illustration of ken lay trying to avoid the judge's gavel (hammer of justice?). her column's called 'the guilitiest guys in the room.' i'll now type up the whole thing.
joke!
pick up the magazine. i'm just reviewing her column. i like her common sense. she's 1 who usually has both feet on the ground. (usually? i'm sure we all have our moments, even molly, when that's not the case.) (i have several on any given day.)
so you're thinking, maybe, i've heard all i ever need to in my lifetime on ken lay.
have you? molly points out that everyone talks about the crime of 'hubris' (i heard that on cnn, in fact) but reality is that lay 'got convicted of fraud - massive, overhwleming, monstrous fraud.'
that mean seem very basic, and guess what, it probably is. but your chat & chew crowd blathered on and on (i saw it - i may be the only 1 who will watch mainstream news of our crowd - that's mainly because i'll turn on the tv just for noise). they talked about the fall of a great man.
(interrupting to note randi rhodes just joined the panel on wbai and she was so funny. every 1's done a wonderful job, although i dozed off during paul krugman, not a reflection on him, i just spent most of the day in the pool - poor me, right? - and i was tired. now i'm hungry. when are we eating!!!!)
so the chat and chew crowd chewed the fat over the fall of a great man. he was a thief. he was a fraud. and he's not that uncommon.
molly cuts through that crap of a 'prince has fallen, there is sadness in the kingdom.'
people lost their savings. people in california had out of control electricity bills because enron rigged the supply. this wasn't a prince or a time for sadness - the conviction should have been a celebration.
you don't get that from tim russert acting sad that the kingdom has lost a great man.
the column's funny too. if you know molly, you'll know to expect that. but if you're new to her, then let me put you wise.
i'm going to stop here. i'm hungry. i'm sure i'm not the only 1. but i don't know if every 1 grasps that you have to say, 'i'm hungry' with c.i. i've known c.i. forever and 100 years. c.i. will forget to eat and right now c.i.'s working on something (offline) and listening to this special and i'm sure food is no where in that mind. sadly, the revolution always needs a food run for me.
i'll note what randi just said regarding the vote count during the mid-terms. she said that the only hope is for every 1 to vote and that if that happens the democrats can win because there are more democrats than republicans. and if you're a 3rd party, hold on, she addressed that.
randi rhodes: 'after that, if the democrats turn out to be as putrid as the republicans, then we start a 3rd party, a 4th party, a 5th party.'
i have no problem voting for a 3rd party. i need to look at my local elections. but the party that's backed away from reproductive rights and can't find a spine on the war (with few exceptions) doesn't own my vote.
