Four Dead in Ohio

The anniversary of the Kent State shootings. I saw the footage of the LA cops opening up on the demontrators and was thankful they had rubber bullets but reminded of how little else has changed. Mothers still raise their children to wear uniforms and brutalize their fellow citizens and kill people in foreign lands where they don't belong. So the rich can get richer. C'mon Moms!

I will make a prediction: Gen. David Petraeus will someday run for president. Think of the hype, the great genius hero warrior scholar. Colin Powell without the excessive tan and UN lies.

Chavez threatens to nationalize some banks and a steel corporation if they don't start thinking about helping society rather than just lining their own pockets. He completed oil deals with most of the Majors in the Orinoco and told Phillips-Conoco they need to settle quick or leave. Lula tells the Pharma Godzilla Merc to shove it's profits where it doesn't shine, they will manufacture their own generic AIDs drugs. Meanwhile in the US, our leaders lick the boots of General Electric.

I just finished the book by George Lakoff and wonder if the real elephant is the one in the room which he never mentions, capitalism. His progressive politics are all about wording, "framing", linguistics, semantics, blah blah. Nothing but small ideas for a reduced discourse of "values" and a stunted imagination about what might be possible. His "authoritarian father" versus "nurturant parent" model does have some explanatory value. I also finished Government In The Future by Chomsky (more a pamphlet, Ill review later) and am about to give up on Durruti In The Spanish Revolution by Abel Paz. 793 pages is a bit much. Think I need a break, gonna go with What Maise Knew by Henry James.