Social Justice Magazine
Tom Degan is a fifty-one-year old video artist who in 2006 became so thoroughly disgusted at the state of America's national political dialogue, he decided to take time off to become a freaking civics teacher. He was born in Goshen, NY in 1958 and, after living all over the United States and Canada, moved back there in 1992. He is a high school dropout who in 1977 received an equivalency diploma (HEY, IT'S LEGAL!) He attended SUNY in Middletown, NY and in 1986 studied journalism at the New School in New York City. He is the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and has worked as a truck driver, a radio DJ, and a metal worker... OK, he didn't ACTUALLY receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but he DID get some kind of ribbon of sorts when he was in the Cub Scouts. He is the inventor of Cheez Whiz and lives off the royalties on the sales of that fine product. He loves children and little baby duckies. FULL DISCLOSURE: He didn't really invent Cheez Whiz. His address is: 2590 Rte 17M (PO BOX 611) Goshen, NY 10924 (845) 294-5714
"I think it's both good ethics and good economics to scrap this notion that we can fight a war on terror and give rich folks like me a tax cut. It amounts to class warfare. -Bill Clinton t was never supposed to be this way - I think. Is it fair to say that the Founders never envisioned such an extreme disparity among the classes? Some of those guys owned slaves so who's to say. This much is … [Read more...]
till looking for reasons to reelect Barack Obama next November? Here's a dandy one: "I'll tell you this right now: If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year." - Ted Nugent But seriously, folks....I don't go to rock concerts very much anymore. To be honest with you, as I get a bit older I've become less "crowd … [Read more...]
It's time to wind up the masquerade Just make your mind up - the piper must be paid The party's over It's all over, my friend -Betty Comden and Adolph Green here's no denying it. This is still a white man's world. What evidence do I have to make this claim? Lots!Here are just two examples for your consideration on this fine Easter morning:George Zimmerman has yet to be charged for … [Read more...]
rayvon Martin and Emmett Till never met each other. They never will either - or at least not in this world. When Trayvon on was born on February 5, 1995, Emmett had been dead for almost forty years. He would have turned seventy-one this July 25th.He was a native of Chicago, Illinois who was visiting relatives in the Mississippi Delta region in the summer of 1955. Early one afternoon he had … [Read more...]
These should be Mitt Romney's glory days. What with his round up of all those juicy delegates in the primaries recently, everything should be coming up roses for our hero. And yet things just haven't been going his way. A photo caption in this week's Time Magazine reads, "Why is this man smiling?" Why indeed.It must be a terribly frustrating thing to be Mitt Romney these days. Were he to be … [Read more...]
After countless hours of debating who the next president of the United States should be, we here at the editorial offices of The Rant have finally reached a consensus and are ready to endorse the candidate we believe should be chosen by the people next November as chief executive of this grand and glorious land of ours.This was not an easy task to be sure. With the abundance of substance … [Read more...]
It was the Newster all the way in South Carolina this week. This wasn't as big a surprise as you might think. Newt had spent the entire primary subtly pressing all of the right racial buttons and it worked out for him better than even he anticipated I'm sure. You see, South Carolina Republicans don't really care for black people that much. When you enter a place where the Confederate flag still … [Read more...]
"Where collective bargaining is forbidden, freedom is lost." -Ronald Reagan I'm almost at a loss for words. Who knows whether or not Reagan actually meant what he was saying when he made the statement. My guess is that he didn't. That was during the campaign of 1980. Candidates say a lot of things they don't really mean. Less than a year later when as president he fired the air traffic … [Read more...]
Look! Up in the sky! It's Mitt! It's Rick! No, it's Santoromney!So Mitt Romney is pleased as punch after beating Rick Santorum in the Iowa caucuses by a mere eight votes, huh? Mitt's jubilation needs to be places in check. To end up in a virtual tie with a basket case like poor old Rick is an ominous portent of things to come I'm afraid.With the South Carolina primaries just around the … [Read more...]
What Has Occupy Accomplished ?-- Civil Disobedience When FOX Noise got the word, they predictably hit the rhetorical roof. How dare they compare those filthy hippies in the Occupy encampment at Zuccotti Park to the good people of the Arab Spring who are fighting for the rights that have been denied them for too long! Uber-dunce Brian Kilmeade, one of the hosts of FOX and Friends, giddily noted … [Read more...]
"Start with the following two facts: Really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash' - unless it's illegal." --Newt Gingrich, December 1, 2011 as quoted yesterday in Charles Blow's New York Times … [Read more...]
Zuccotti Park is morphing in the rain.I got the phone call from Harragin on Saturday morning, the twelfth of November. He was on his way to Zuccotti Park to be part of the occupation that is the focus of the nation. Would I like to come along for the ride?When history is being made so close to where one sleeps, it is the duty of all true patriots to make their presence known. When the … [Read more...]
Oh, can you see their world is crashing Crashing down around their feet And angry people in the street, Are telling them they've had their fill Of politics that wound and kill -The Moody Blues "They Call it the "American Dream" because you have to be asleep to believe it." -George Carlin Thane Plowman was born on August 7, 1968 and died on October 27, 2011 at the home he shared with his … [Read more...]
Rick Perry Does it Again"This is such a cool state. I mean, come on: 'Live Free or Die'. You gotta love it, right?....I come from a state, you know, where they have this little place called the Alamo, and they declared 'Victory or Death'....We're kind of into those slogans 'Live free or die', Victory or Death'. Bring it." --Rick Perry Republican Rick Perry is a tough-talking Texan, but he was … [Read more...]
"Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day." --Barack Obama Yeah, but change I can believe in?First of all let me emphasize from the outset that this president has been a disappointment in too many areas to count. When Barack Obama was inaugurated … [Read more...]
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