• NYPD clears Zuccotti Park.
• Leon Panetta: leave the Pentagon alloooone!
• Newt, the latest leading Anyone-But-Romney candidate.
• The Pizza Guy’s “In what respect, Charlie”? moment.
• Assad: the next Gaddafi?

On Saturday at the latest Republican debate a solid majority of the candidates embraced the prospect of waterboarding a foreigner. Only the marginalized Paul and ostracized Huntsman disapproved.

Seal – A Change is Gonna Come

There’s pretty much no way to be perfect when accusing the powerful of behaving badly. But even when you’re so demonstrably correct (and your abuser so demonstrably dumb) that our dim-bulb punditry has no choice but to back you up, they still manage to get a few licks in at your expense.

Firedoglake was most kind in response to my original request for what the protesters need. A box full of items supplied by generous donations arrived today. Now to adapt the contents of that box to the new needs of the occupiers. I am deeply grateful to those who gave what FDL turned into locally produced, union made goods that will help keep people warm in through the winter. The true raw cold of New England is coming and democracy in it’s truest form will sustain us.

activism, Occupy Wall Street, political ideology, progressive movement, protests, unions

Punk rock dads facing the challenges of being, well, punk rock dads are the subject of tonight’s movie The Other F Word, directed and written by Andrea Blaugrund Nevins and produced by Cristan Reilly. It’s hard enough to be a parent these days, but punk rock papas face a unique set of challenges as they walk the pater-path.

In interviews with over twenty fathers involved in punk rock –as well as pro skating and BMX riding, sports which have been heavily influenced by punk culture–the filmmakers have crafted portraits of men whose own childhoods were not exactly perfect (absentee and abusive fathers/parents are a prevailing theme), and are attempting to be better fathers to their own kids, to heal themselves through parenting.

Given the absence of perspectives from America’s elites, NBC is taking extraordinary steps to rectify this problem by hiring Chelsea Clinton to be a corespondent, despite the fact that she has no professional experience as a journalist or TV producer.

Canadian PM Harper suggested that Canada intended to be an oil supplier to Asia, implying that even if the Keystone XL pipeline is stalled, Canada will see other routes to get tar sands oil to markets.

In an interview for GQ Herman Cain continues to impress by describing the relationship between pizza toppings and manhood. Something to do with meat. Also ice cream flavors.