Category Archives: Lloyd Marbet

Lessons from Colonialism

Posted on June 7, 2017 by M. Meo

While my two teenaged sons, Michael Kepler and John Dominic, were attending the much-anticipated Free Speech pro-Trump rally in front of City Hall this last weekend, getting onto the front page of the British newspaper the Guardian, I went to … Continue reading →

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Reality Rejection, Incorporated

Posted on December 16, 2016 by M. Meo

  In the last several days the Siege of Aleppo has ended. The rebels holding the city have been defeated by the Syrian government forces, aided by Russian air force bombing. There is some talk of this being a turning … Continue reading →

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A Bitter Disappointment

Posted on November 26, 2016 by M. Meo

Recently, on a website devoted to animal rights, appeared this evaluation of the recent election: Jill Stein’s positions were nearly identical to those of Bernie Sanders, yet progressives who supported Bernie overwhelmingly rejected the Greens. It is difficult to envisage … Continue reading →

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Chapter meeting of 12 July 2016

Posted on July 13, 2016 by M. Meo

Brian Setzler, the President of the Cascadia Chapter of the Pacific Green Party of Oregon, sat down earlier this evening with Your Intrepid Reporter. The meeting took place at my request. I asked Brian whether he would would nominate me … Continue reading →

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Scam What Am, Nuclear Version

Posted on July 7, 2016 by M. Meo

If an email comes to you from Nigeria, advising you that you can earn, just by providing a mailbox, several tens of thousands of dollars US, what do you do? You read no further and you delete it.  Oaky? Now, … Continue reading →

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Remember Walt Brown

Posted on May 29, 2016 by M. Meo

Walt Brown was the nominee for President of the Socialist Party of America, once upon a time in a kingdom long ago. He also ran on the Pacific Green Party line, for Oregon Attorney General.  We got to be good … Continue reading →

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Dave Westerlund’s Day

Posted on April 17, 2016 by M. Meo

I was sitting Thursday evening at the Random Order Pie Bar translating [details available upon request] when the hour of 6:30 came round: the Daylight-Savingsed Sun was about 15 degrees above the horizon, out the picture window which runs along … Continue reading →

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Neighboring Jurisdiction Screws Jill Stein

Posted on March 6, 2016 by M. Meo

Longtime readers of this blog may recall that I received the link to Richard Winger’s Ballot Access News [the latest issue, dated 1 March, arrived today] from a retiring woman, not before making a pledge of eternal silence as to her … Continue reading →

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The Paranoid Style

Posted on January 12, 2016 by M. Meo

The Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics Paul Krugman points out today that the following chart describing employment decisively refutes the claim of that dishonest mouthpiece for the Corporate Interest the Wall Street Journal, that there is significance to the decline … Continue reading →

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The Coming Dark Ages

Posted on January 9, 2016 by M. Meo

Canadian sociologist Jane Jacobs, rather an eminent authority, worldwide, on the development of cities [author of what The Encyclopedia calls ” possibly the most influential book on urban planning and cities”], once wrote a book predicting the arrival of a … Continue reading →

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