Review: Steel City Revolt #1

Steel City Revolt #1 (Fall 2008)
48 pages, quarterly
(POG, c/o The Thomas Merton Center, 5125 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15224)
(Full Disclosure: I was affiliated for a couple years with the group who put out this publication. )

I was unsure what to expect from this project, since I hadn’t been keeping up with POG’s recent activities, membership, [...]

Greece, Patras, URGENT!! fascists cooperate with the police now‏

There have been confirmed informations about groups of fascists in action with
police forces at the city of Patras. This is happening now it is not a joke! The
media speak of ‘civilians’ who attack anarchists. —- We know very well the
concept of ‘angry civilians’. Already know faces of fascists from other cities
(including athens) are seen [...]

“Joe the Plumber” & The American (Pipe) Dream

“I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.”
-Jay Gould, Robber Baron
The 15 minutes of fame awarded to republican mascot, Samuel Wurzelbacher, aka “Joe the Plumber”, confirms what I have long considered to be the single greatest psychological problem afflicting working people in the US. Not the taste for mass-produced,  [...]

Plotting a Comeback?

It’s amazing how many hits the YT has gotten during our health, legal, and technology induced sabbatical. Way more than when it was still being updated. The web can pretty interesting when you haven’t seen it for awhile, not to mention, intimidating. The email account associated with this has had all of its messages deleted, [...]

Save the Restaurateurs!

I guess it’s flattering that Cap’ns of industry such as the Carlton’s, Kevin Joyce, have time to comment on marginal blogs, like this one, and if the proposed drink tax goes through, and these proprietors end up on the streets we need to figure out ways to help them. I think the Pennsylvania Restaurant Association [...]

Straight-Edge Anti-Authoritarians, Rejoice

A former Christian Peacekeeper has heard your pleas and has created the Mormon Worker, which seeks to re-unite Mormons with their faith’s communitarian roots.
There is also an LDS Anarchy blog. 
It’s much easier for me to accept faith based anarchisms than to accept the idea of deconverting religious folk who choose to recognize no earthly authority. [...]

While It’s Still Amusing

Maybe it was just a product tie-in for an ailing US car manufacturer or maybe he’s turning on the radical populist chic to woo the peaceniks and the armed mid-west farmer, but either way, John Edwards had this amusing exchange with a retired farmer in Charles City Iowa:
“If the American people understood what’s going on [...]

YT’s Voting Guide

If you want a brighter future don’t pull a lever, pull a trigger. Or learn some other useful skills that are usually reserved for specialists. Share your skills with someone else.
No matter who you vote for tomorrow, the winners are: Act 47, out of control prosecutors, gambling as a solution to public ills, corrupt, unaccountable [...]

Back by Popular Demand

My hiatus (it hurts to type sometimes) had almost turned into retirement, except that I’m vain and a sucker to idle flattery, so look for new stuff in the next few days.
Thank you for the kind words and encouragement.

Block Party in Free Bloomfield 9/2

I posted this as is, despite some of the obvious kookiness. I’m a little too feverish and delirious to get into talking about the US vs. China proxy war in Darfur, that already has liberal consent for a full on war, just add Democrat President, and the establishment of a US Afrika Korps African [...]