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  • No Nation Can Long Endure Half Bankrupt
    3 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    I take no joy in saying the things I say; I wish I could write about happy puppies loping through the warm grass in the summer sunshine. Oh, wouldn’t it be loverly? I take no pleasure in the things I see; I become angry to the point of outrage, not at the right, no, not at them, they are acting as you would expect spoiled children to act. My anger is with the left, or the lack of the left.
    Have we become so desensitized as a people that (…)

  • Being Woody Guthrie
    1 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    Today we have so many celebrities who take on social causes; it is almost a given that they will each have some charity or cause that they support. That is good, I suppose, but still there is a clear distinction between being socially conscious and being Woody Guthrie.
    Woody has been dead almost half a century, and his deeds and exploits have fallen from public memory. Woody wasn’t socially conscious, he was its conscience. In the dark (…)

  • All the News that’s Fit to Spit
    27 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    It was announced yesterday that the San Francisco Chronicle is in danger of shutting down. Founded in the days of the California gold rush, the Chronicle was once staffed by writers such as Mark Twain and Bret Harte. But those days are long gone; what with I-Pods and laptops, who reads newspapers anymore? I can’t say that I know much about the Chronicle, being almost 3,000 miles away from it; I’ve never read it.
    Maybe it was a great (…)

  • Tomorrow a New World Begins
    25 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    Tomorrow a New World begins; in this new world we are going to tell the unvarnished truth. We are not going to skim the numbers or color the facts. The unemployed are unemployed. They are not discouraged workers, they are not displaced or outsourced, they are unemployed. And they are unemployed, to a large degree, so that a small number of people can get very, very rich.
    We are not in a recession, repeat, we are not in a recession; we are (…)

  • The Howling Days of Madness
    20 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    You know, sometimes I pick up this 21st century quill and electronic rodent ready to charge down some pre-determined path. Here I was, ready to write a very informative piece about past financial collapses all throughout the history of our capitalist enclave, when the demons overtook me. Perhaps demons or maybe a guiding spirit, pointing me down a spiritual path. Oh, fuck it, it’s damn laziness; at least that’s what they called it in high school. But then, what didn’t (…)

  • The Creeping Hand of Socialism
    17 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    When we have all been thoroughly indoctrinated in truth, justice and the American way, the very word socialism evokes flickering black and white images of Winston Smith. His empty, loveless life controlled by the stern-faced Big Brother. Or we hear the clicking sounds of jackbooted policemen, and even worse, of the secret policemen.
    Who told you these things? Who put these images before your eyes? Why, the very people who benefit from (…)

  • Let the Sky Fall
    11 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    Let the sky fall, let the sun crash and commence with the days of iron rain. Let the blood of the guilty and the tears of the innocent mix and intermingle in the sewers of greed. There is no bipartisanship in Washington; there is only buy partisanship. The President, still in his first month in office, has had dinner with Republican pundits. He has gone to Capitol Hill to meet with both House and Senate Republicans.
    He has supported a (…)

  • I’ll Wait For You
    7 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    Years ago I was in a terrible car crash. It was a beautiful, sunny spring day and we were headed for Panama City, Florida. My friend had just replaced his four thousand-pound Ford with a new MGB convertible. The back tire, the driving wheel, got into the gravel and lost traction. The car swerved and he jerked the wheel to correct, but it wasn’t a four thousand-pound Ford, just an eighteen hundred-pound sports car. All of my life compressed (…)

  • The War on Sense
    31 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    It is a shocking statistic and one that should spur us to action in 2006, 4,800 Americans lost their lives in the search for illicit pleasure. Most were young people under the age of 35 and there were thousands of others who were injured, some permanently in pursuit of kicks and cheap thrills.
    If we follow the same model as our war on drugs our path is clear, we must outlaw the motorcycle. We must jail it purveyors and those who would facilitate their parts or repair, (…)

  • Long Shadows
    26 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com
    The "American Spectator" calls it Obama’s New Deal; CNBC and its parrot networks call it Obama’s New Deal, as well. As would be expected, the right tries to frame the argument by smearing the left. So lost and out of touch are these Ba’thist dead enders that they fail to realize that a New Deal sounds like a pretty good idea to millions of struggling Americans. But Obama’s stimulus program is not another New Deal, it is merely patching the (…)