Monthly Archives: May 2020

Watched Stephen Colbert interview Biden: For the first 20 minutes or more, Biden seems to be still on the debate stage, running against Trump, not leading the opposition. He begins to gather himself after that. But then Colbert asks him one question after another about what his plan is — for infrastructure, for jobs, evenContinue reading “Time to pivot”

Biden won the Hawaii Democratic primary today, 63% to 37% for Bernie, with Bernie not even running. Biden picked up 16 delegates and Bernie got 8, making Biden 1566 delegates so far. https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3085814/joe-biden-wins-hawaii-presidential-primary-delayed The paper that reported this didn’t bother to mention how many delegates Bernie has: it’s 1007 as of today. There are aboutContinue reading “A Ride Around the Block”

83,000 dead in the US; none in Vietnam. The figures from Vietnam are credible; they’ve been subjected to a lot of international scrutiny and people agree that they’re good. Moving right along: All of America on one stage, celebrating, circa 1943 This is from a book by Robert McCloskey. You may recognize the hand ofContinue reading “Utopia, Eutopia, Labor Relations Sci Fi and Bernie and Biden’s Task Force”

An article in the New Yorker describes the fractured supply chain for medical supplies and the obstacles to getting approval for tests, apparently because if you test, you find out how many people have got it. If what you find out is that a lot of people have it, then you have to make aContinue reading “May 8, 75,000 deaths”

This is our friend Beverly Stewart, at the time President of the Roosevelt Adjunct Faculty Organization (RAFO), an NEA local, telling the story of Haymarket at the statue on the site of the massacre. This is Chicago, about 2008. She is addressing the women at a Polk Conference. You can see that the statue, whichContinue reading “May Day 2020”