Author: PJ

  The Shutdown Is Taking a Bigger Toll on Women he government shutdown, which has lasted for nearly two weeks and could stretch on as many as six more, is a budget fight that is currently being negotiated solely by men. It’s possible that the gender imbalance is one of the…

  Debt Ceiling: China Calls for World to Be ‘De-Americanised’   The official news agency of China, which is seen as the pretender to the world’s superpower crown, then rubbed in more salt, calling American economic pre-eminence just a seeming dominance. “As US politicians of both political parties are still shuffling back…

From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That, show, contain and nourish all the world. ~Lord Berowne This passage from the Fourth Act of Love’s Labour’s Lost encapsulates one thematic undercurrent of the play: the…

If you missed League of Denial last night on Frontline, try catching it. Well worth the watch. Some highlights: The Autopsy That Changed Football Well, it hasn’t changed football yet, but it might and it should. Growing up in Nigeria, Dr. Bennet Omalu knew next to nothing about American football….

Just links.   China’s Reaction to the US Government Shutdown – Gimme Some! About the author    Despite Shutdown, President Pushes Hard to Finish TPP Joe Wolverton on Twitter   Libertarian Party Not Afraid, Wants Permanent Shutdown From the Party of Principle: Libertarians call for Permanent Shutdown   What is…

A Political Crisis – Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont   Link to article referenced in interview: A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning – NYTimes.com  

Our republican democracy remains closed, shut, hijacked – call it what you will. Watching the bare-knuckled tactics of the GOP immediately brings to mind another term, the all too familiar privatization ruse – Disaster Capitalism. Hostage politics, make no mistake, fosters the very same conditions of escalated crises that creates…

Sorry this is four days into the posting – Imara Jones at Colorlines published a fair rundown on why shutting down the government impacts people of color disproportionately. I think it’s an important read. Why Race Matters in the Government Shutdown – COLORLINES As the parts of the government affected…

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/10/05/your-weekly-address-end-government-shutdown