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If I ever use the phrase “Drink the Kool-Aid” again, please do me a favor and kick me in the teeth

By Mark | November 18, 2014

36 years ago today, a charismatic, and increasingly paranoid Jim Jones commanded the assembled members of the Peoples Temple, who had followed him from the United States to the jungles of Guyana, to take their own lives by ingesting a cyanide-infused knock-off of Kool-Aid called Flavor-Aid. Despite the fact that Jones can be heard referring […]

Posted in Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged cults, cyanide, drink the Kool-Aid, Flavor Aid, Guinea Pig Zero, Jim Jones, Julia Scheeres, Julie Ann Runnels, Kool-Aid, mass murder, mass suicide, Peoples Temple, revolutionary suicide, Robert Helms, Time magazine | 12 Comments

No tax cuts for the rich

By Mark | November 18, 2010

I’ve been writing a lot about lately about the growing gap between rich and poor in American, and the systematic destruction of the middle class, and how I believe both trends to be destructive to our Democracy. I didn’t want to write about it tonight, though. I was actually planning to take the night off, […]

Posted in Economics, Politics | Also tagged Argentina, Bush tax cuts, Economic Policy Institute, Eisenhower, estate tax, George Soros, inheritance tax, middle class, Nicaragua, Nicholas Kristof, nuclear arms treaty, nuclear weapons, Plutocracy, Putin, rich get richer, Ronald Reagan, Russia, tax the rich, taxing the rich, the growing gap between rich and poor, the plight of the overtaxed rich, Venezuela, wealth inequality | 7 Comments

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