To-day @ Rad Geek People’s Daily [radgeek.com]: A New York Times correction 10 years in the making — David Brooks vs. David Brooks on “neoconservatism” and the GOP. http://radgeek.com/gt/2013/08/12/neoconservative-that-is-one/

Hey, remember 10 years ago back when David Brooks wrote a column disavowing “neo-conservative” as a political label, insisting that “In truth, the people labeled neocons . . . travel in widely different circles and don’t actually have much contact with one another,” arguing that “If you ever read a sentence that starts with ‘Neocons believe,’ there is a 99.44 percent chance everything else in that sentence will be untrue,” and directly mocking people writing about “neoconservative” influence on the Bush administration in the most abusive terms possible, as “full-mooner” anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists? Boy howdy, that was a time. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/opinion/brooks-the-neocon-revival.html?_r=0 “The conservatism that Kristol was referring to is neoconservatism. Neocons came in for a lot of criticism during the Iraq war, but neoconservatism was primarily a domestic policy movement. Conservatism was at its peak when the neocons were dominant and nearly every problem with the Republican Party today could be cured by a neocon revival. . . .” ~David Brooks (2013)

Hey, remember 10 years ago back when David Brooks wrote a column disavowing “neo-conservative” as a political label, insisting that “In truth, the people labeled neocons . . . travel in widely different circles and don’t actually have much contact with one another,” arguing that “If you ever read a sentence that starts with ‘Neocons believe,’ there is a 99.44 percent chance everything else in that sentence will be untrue,” and directly mocking people writing about “neoconservative” influence on the Bush administration in the most abusive terms possible, as “full-mooner” anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist? Bow howdy, that was a time. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/opinion/brooks-the-neocon-revival.html?_r=0 “The conservatism that Kristol was referring to is neoconservatism. Neocons came in for a lot of criticism during the Iraq war, but neoconservatism was primarily a domestic policy movement. Conservatism was at its peak when the neocons were dominant and nearly every problem with the Republican Party today could be cured by a neocon revival. . . .” ~David Brooks (2013)

The nationalized cartel for organ donations and transplants is planning to murder a 15-year-old named Anthony Stokes, for a “history of non-compliance.” ‘Fifteen-year-old Anthony Stokes has less than six months to live unless he receives an emergency heart transplant. But his family has been told that Anthony doesn’t qualify for the transplant list because he has a “history of non-compliance” . . . The doctors at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta weren’t very specific about what exactly contributed to their decision to label Anthony as “non-compliant.” But family friends explained to WSBTV News that they were told it’s partly because of Anthony’s performance in school and run-ins with law enforcement.’

To-day @ Rad Geek People’s Daily [radgeek.com]: There is no such thing as a limited police state http://radgeek.com/gt/2013/08/12/no-limited-police-state/

They’re ineligible because they haven’t been paying in Social Security payroll taxes all this time (it’s an opt-in system for state and local government employees). Anyway, I feel bad for the firefighters. Their jobs should not be monopolized by the city government, but they perform a useful service for people who want it. But as far as I’m concerned, if every member of Detroit PD gets a dirty nickel and a punch in the nose for their retirement, that’s a nickel more than they’ve earned.

is transcribing Miriam Daniell labor poems from the pages of LIBERTY. http://margins.fair-use.org/note/Miriam_Daniell

I’m selling anarchist booklets and buttons with Alliance of Libertarian Left Distro at Southside Market in Auburn (Gay St in front of Mama Mocha’s / Gnu’s Room) from now till about 12 noon. Come on by!

To-day @ Rad Geek People’s Daily [radgeek.com]: http://radgeek.com/gt/2013/08/09/1102-am/ 11:02 A.M.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/ Photography by Yosuke Yamahata http://radgeek.com/gt/2006/08/09/Oppenheimer.mp3 “Oppenheimer,” by Jocelyn Pook (1997)