“
poor boy
why don’t you try getting water?
poor boy
why don’t you try getting sleep?
I think if one of us is going to suffer
why shouldn’t it be me?
poor boy
your wife is in hard labor
the rhythm you know
is pulsing and drifting to the grave
when you come too
you’ll be asking yourself just one question
was I always this way?
was I always this way?
think back a year
when everything stood at the surface
a bandage you cut because you don’t know what swims under me
hold tight
the bondage of this life is slipping
why shouldn’t it be me?
why shouldn’t it be me?
when I come back
you’ll be the brightest star
in the black
when there are days
that you want the call we’re all waiting for
think back
poor boy
life is in hard labor
go buy flowers you’ll leave on its grave
then with the goal of movement
now one thing is different -
you don’t want to change
I don’t want to change
“ He added that he was disappointed that members of Congress from New York, especially Senator Charles E. Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, had not come out swinging for an industry that donates heavily to their campaigns. “They need to understand who their constituency is,” he said.
this, in a nutshell, is what is wrong with america
constituents are not the fatcats who give politicians the money
they are the everyone
In Private Conversation, Wall Street Is More Critical of Protesters - NYTimes.com
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Parties losing elections tend to take one of two paths. Either they collectively decide that their platform is out of touch with public sentiment and adjust accordingly, or they decide that their problem was a poor candidate and weak messaging and double down.
…Rather than chalking the loss up to a combination of the economic crisis, weariness from two unpopular wars, and a particularly charismatic opponent, Republicans decided that the problem was that their leadership had been insufficiently true to the party’s ideology.
James Joyner, from the piece entited “The Changing Definition of Conservative” in The Atlantic this week.
New Hampshire Leaders Call for Boycott of Nevada
LEGISLATORS AFRAID OF LOSING THE ONLY THING THE STATE IS FAMOUS FOR AFTER THAT DUDE’S FACE IN THE MOUNTAIN COLLAPSED
Echoes of 2008: Here we go again
A short treatise from The Economist about how Europe really didn’t learn anything from our mistakes.
“ The man’s hypocrisy belongs in the Smithsonian.
columnist Eugene Robinson, in his love letter to Occupy Wall Street, on Tea Party supporter Rep. Eric Cantor’s denouncement of the movement. (via washingtonpoststyle)
