I Tell You. You Decide If You Care.

In his movie, I Am , Tom Shadyac calls out unbridled greed as a genuine mental illness, and takes us all to task for tolerating letting the mentally ill run and control the nation, and world. Director Tom Shadyac speaks with intellectual and spiritual leaders about what's wrong with our world and how we can improve both it and the way we live in it. It's a damn good movie.

The Action Network is online organizing tools, like those used by President Obama 's team in 2008 and 2012 (it says so on their site).  The goal is to facilitate grass roots activism by making it easy for activists to find each other, to sponsor or host events, and to just get things done. The Progressive Independents G+ group .  As you'd expect, a lot of people fed up with the DNC, but also just people wanting to organize and figure out how to keep Progressive goals on the political radar against the corporate lobbyists . I'm a little less clear about the Working Families Party, but I have it on good authority that their main goal isn't so much to get their own candidates elected, as to help support and encourage Progressive candidates across the board.  Specifically, they're organizing to pressure President Trump * to help all Americans, and generally do good deeds.** The WFP say: "We need to stick together and defend our allies, fri...

Well, it looks like the American people don't get what we've earned - Johnson and Stein don't seem to be in the second Presidential Debate. Whatever.  Still, here's a chance to upvote on the questions you want to hear Secretary Clinton and Mr Trump respond to in this "townhall format" debate, at the Open Debate Coalition. Looking at the site, it's unclear if they will actually have any impact on the Presidential candidate questions asked, but it's worth a shot.  Whatever their results, they may be able to feed it to the people running the debate, and generate some influence over the actual questions asked, i.e. set the topic and tone, because The People have stated a sense of priorities.

OMG! Super-easy way to register to vote in Washington state. Go here -  https://weiapplets.sos.wa.gov/MyVote/#/login Login, see your voting history, who your officials are, update your mailing address so you get your vote-by-mail ballot, see where your voting center locations are, etc., etc. Totally awesome website.

I'm tired of rich, elitist assholes trying to grab every damn public project and turn it into their personal playground, fuck everyone else. I'm tired of having to defend a level playing field on the Interwebs. The damn thing was engineeed, built, and funded with tax money. The damn thing is still heavily subsidized - paid for - with tax money. The Internet gives everyone a voice, and a chance to be the next great idea millionaire (hey, you're more likely to get hit by lightning, but that's still a greater-than-zero chance). Protect Net Neutrality by telling Congress to knock it the fuck off, and do their jobs of representing the people who voted for them.