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  • The Trickle Up Theory
    7 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Trickle Up Theory By David Glenn Cox
    Wonderful news, the recession is over and we won! Of course, when I say we I mean Wall Street and the big banks.
    May 6 (Bloomberg) — A peak in the number of jobless claims signals the worst U.S. recession in half a century may end in June, according to Thomas Lam, an economist at United Overseas Bank Ltd. in Singapore.
    May 6 (Bloomberg) — U.S. stocks advanced to a four-month high as investors speculated banks don’t need as much capital as had (…)

  • Nitwits for Jesus
    5 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Nitwits for Jesus By David Glenn Cox
    There are no atheists in foxholes, it is said. In Afghanistan, in the midst of war, social and societal upheaval, the Nitwits for Jesus are hard at work. Perhaps if we all raise our hands to the sky and shout hallelujah at the Taliban they will throw down their arms and shout hallelujah back at us.
    The irony of the words of the Prince of Peace being delivered by bayonet-wielding soldiers goes right over their heads. Former Afghan prime minister Ahmed (…)

  • Stray Cats
    5 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Stray Cats By David Glenn Cox
    I watch the sun go down reluctantly. This world offers little, and I have little to offer in return. I have lost everything, so as the birds sing at daylight’s demise, I hear no music. The world has lost its music for me; it is just an endless grind with a police siren in the distance.
    I went to Wal-Mart. God, I hate Wal-Mart, but I needed dish soap and hand soap, and well, beer. Some days are harder than others and this one was a difficult one. I live on (…)

  • From Haymarket to Ludlow from Harlen to Matewan from Mother Jones to You
    1 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    From Haymarket to Ludlow from Harlen to Matewan from Mother Jones to You By David Glenn Cox
    So it has come to this, why must I wake the sleeping? It wasn’t so long ago I was asleep myself. Why must I be the one to tell you what you don’t want to hear? Why must I tell you about how quickly hot red human blood congeals and turns black when mixed with cold pavement or frozen mud? Murderous armies training automatic weapons on women and children, then firing off a few rounds, just for fun. (…)

  • A Death in the Family
    30 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    A Death in the Family By David Glenn Cox
    Like a junkie or a crack head, American industry has become addicted to third world labor. The driving force in the economic equation has become finding the lowest cost labor source. Like stealing the family TV, or money from mother’s purse, they think only of the buzz or the high, the dividend or quarterly profit.
    The image is put before our eyes that everyone is doing it, just as the junkie tries to rationalize their addiction. That it couldn’t (…)

  • Poor Oprah
    29 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Poor Oprah By David Glenn Cox
    Oprah Winfrey has traversed America; she is the epitome of the American dream. But for everything that we gain in life, we must give up an equal amount. If we are ambitious we work long hours and forget how to relax and how to allot time for family and friends, because our goals entrap us.
    Winfrey, early in her broadcasting career, fought the battles of a being an African American woman struggling for employment in an industry controlled entirely by white (…)

  • Another Earth Day
    20 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    Spring brings us a rebirth of plant life, and Christians celebrate the risen Christ. Then, as a barren winter world begins to green, Earth Day is upon us. I remember the first Earth Day oh, so long ago when I was young and idealistic. It all seemed so easy back then; the public was behind us and it all seemed so obvious. You can’t dump untreated chemical waste into your drinking water supply. You can’t dump tons of dangerous chemicals into the atmosphere indefinitely. (…)

  • Dispatches From the Front
    17 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    It is a curiosity, these things which hide from us and call out to us, like someone who knows us all too well. While we move swiftly their call makes us pick up our pace even more and pretend not to hear them at all. America is a nation afraid of itself, afraid to slow down out of fear of what we will see. It is a nation in love with its own image, afraid that the truth will show us to be more than just a liar.
    Teabags, fleabags, bailouts, shootouts, shout outs, rain (…)

  • It All Gets Real
    14 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    “Some get stoned, some get strange, sooner or later, it all gets real” (Neil Young)
    We live in a cloud with our inputs overloaded, like pool balls bouncing off the bumpers, looking for a hole. The news media tells us about the mean old Chinese that are harassing an unarmed US navy vessel. Those bad old Chinese, how dare they do that to our boys? Except that it is a US spy ship spying off the Chinese coast, and we want to blame the (…)

  • It Goes Uppity Up,Up
    12 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    The last pillar of faith is a fanatical belief. Despite all logic, is this reliance on some unseen guiding force that will rescue us. It will strike down schoolteachers with illness so that we may have another day to study before the big test. It guides rescuers to find the lost. The rescued give praise, all praise above while the rescuers just scratch their heads.
    As the investment banks and brokerage houses advertise their strict (…)