Today's Moment of Happiness

Buddy Wakefield is a National Slam Winner and a Seattle resident. Seeing him live is liking drinking sunshine in fizzy form.

The Shock Doctrine

While driving around taking care of a bunch of errands last night, I heard snippets of a talk by Naomi Kline on KUOW about her new book "The Shock Doctrine" in which she outlines the history and thesis behind the term "shock doctrine" and it's relationship to disaster capitalism. Going in and out of stores it wasn't possible to hear the entire segment but what I did catch was both distressing and intriguing.

The above short film is the result of the collaboration between Naomi and Alfonso Cuaron, director of such films as "Children of Men" and "Y tu mama tambien".

Today's Moment of Happiness - You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

What's not to love? The sets, the song, John's voice, George's face, and Ringo in the pit of awesomeness.

Bill Moyers: Who decides what's news?

One more for the road.

Thanks to Crooks and Liars for links.

Olbermann, water boards and I still hate GWBush.

It's been far too long since I've posted here, but I can see a light at the end of the tunnel when I'll have more time to do more of the things I love. In the mean time, here's something that made me very happy today. Not that I have great hopes for the future of this country, but at least I still have hope.