No Change But Real Change

Here’s a safe bet: the two major political parties will nominate Presidential candidates from the corporate wings of their parties.
What will that leave us in this election year?
Corporate control as usual.
If this happens, we have two choices – throw in the towel.
Or fight back.
If we choose to fight back, here’s a good option:
Join with a person whose life is one of dedicated service to the public interest.
To help him organize a political campaign in every state against corporate control over our lives.
Luckily, that person – Ralph Nader – is running such a campaign.
But he will need active and informed citizens in every Congressional district in the country.
He will need volunteers.
He will need funds.
He will need dedication.
That’s why I’ve signed on at Nader’s campaign web site at www.votenader.org.
Check it out.
And spread the word.
In 2008, it’s either sit back and watch the drift.
Or get off the couch and fight back.

Dilbert: Innocent Cartoon or Socialist Propaganda?

There used to be a site out there questioning whether Scott Adam's Dilbert^TM was really an innocuous comic strip or some form of communist propaganda. It was put up by a student out at Carnegie Mellon as I recall, and was taken down after UFS's lawyers didn't buy his "fair use" argument. Truth be told he did exaggerated the dialog to make his point, but I always thought Scott made the point all by himself even if it was unintentional. When it comes right down to it, blue and white collar workers are both cogs in the capitalist machine. To be sure their plights are different, and they are oppressed in different ways, but a worker is a worker no matter what color their collar.

So in this spirit I added the Official Dilbert Widget to The Lone Dissenter. It would be even funnier if it weren't true.