Bill Lyne – Page 7 – United Faculty of Washington State

“Around here,” a Ku Klux Klan member in good standing once told me, “The only thing worse than a nigger is a nigger-lover.” That was a long time ago and deep in the heart of Dixie, but the sentiment remains pervasive, from Cliven Bundy (defending his welfare ranch in Nevada) to NBA owner Donald Sterling…

In the midst of all the blather from politicians and pundits of all persuasions about jobs, more jobs, and jobs at all costs, the people who actually do those jobs, the brothers and sisters who could actually lose those jobs, responded with a simple and eloquent NO. With the plutocracy and all of their minions…

Obviously, health care and college should be free. Both should be amply funded by the state with the proceeds from a progressive tax system. But over forty years of transferring public wealth toward private profiteering has left us in a place where the obvious has become politically and economically impossible. In this context, pragmatic progressives…