Category Archives: Politics

Hello darkness, my old friend: the Ann Telnaes resignation and the late, formerly great Washington Post

Former Washington Post editorial cartoonist Ann Tenaes made a bit of a stir over the weekend after her cartoon (see above) got the axe from her editors and she decided she had had enough and quit.

Many have wrote about it, including Tenaes herself, and Rolling Stone did a story on the dangers of going up against billionaire owners with fragile egos.

We have a wealthy class bowing down to an incoming rapey despot and dare call ourselves a democracy.

Damn shame what they are doing – and are about to do – to this place.

Alabama profits off prisoners who work at McDonald’s but deems them too dangerous for parole

Prisons should exist for public safety, hopefully for rehabilitation when possible, certainly as punishment.

What they should not be there for is to provide a cheap workforce for corporations. Want to teach some job skills that the state could profit from to return some cash into the operating budget? Well, we can talk about that.

Providing companies a worker pool that you then deny parole to in order to keep them “on the job” should be a crime in itself.