Class warfare has been acknowledged as the driving force behind political and economic policy by the 99% for years now, explicitly so since the Occupy movement was founded last year.
Stephen Hawking may have said it best when he asked, “Why did the universe bother to exist at all?” If all this is truly random and arguably meaningless, what, in nature’s name, is the fricking point?
By OcJim Looking at the petite and lithe 25-year-old classical pianist, Yuja Wang, is a pleasant experience. In contrast to the recent warm August night at the Hollywood Bowl, Wang was cool in her long, purple, clingy dress showing a young shapely thigh through the slit up the right…
I am one of those unusual anomalies you find when thinking of political and ideological combinations: a male feminist. I proudly follow and support feminist voices, organisations, individuals and legislation in Britain, as well as the international feminist movements (such as increasing awareness of the Republican Party's war on…
Never thought this rebel without a cause would find a way to make it into my third decade... But somehow life held me close and kept me around to take on the role of wife and mother.
By OcJim After falling from grace for his insidious connection to the Jack Abramoff scandal in 2005, Ralph Reed is back in full force. Not convicted but being disgraced as part of the Evangelical circuit, Ralph Reed is again running “Jesus” scams for politicians, this while a reformed Abramoff…
Marriage equality is arguably the civil rights issue of our day. Since the Stonewall Riots of 1969, which opened the closet door on a history of oppression and rejection for the American LGBT community, great progress has been made, but not enough. California’s Prop 8 story epitomizes the battle…
Every day I sit out of the workforce, the harder it will be for me to find a job because of the stigma that is currently swirling in our society: unemployed folks are a bunch of deadbeat, lazy, trifling individuals looking for a handout.
Advocates for equality try to take the high road, because battling hate with hate doesn't bring progress.
By OcJim How much longer are we going to permit massacres in our country? For too long a minority force in our society, mostly represented by the National Rifle Association (NRA), has dictated what governs the common good in terms of domestic safety and security. The problem is that…