Pissy Joey - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Atheist, vegetarian, feminist, anarchist, tree-hugging leftist swine.

My Interests

Books, whiskey, wisdom, compassion, truth, love, power, empathy, aggression, justice.

I'd like to meet:

You!

Music:

Album Leaf, Cold War Kids, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Pixies, Eagles of Death Metal, Depeche Mode, Dressy Bessy, Grandaddy, Nina Simone, Animals, Black Keys, White Stripes, Decibully, Muddy Waters, Vivaldi, Arcade Fire, Beatles, Legendary Shack Shakers, Little Walter, Bad Plus, Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, Radiohead, Travis, Otis Redding, Cake, Buddy Holly, John Lee Hooker, Mozart, RedW alls, Sigur Ros, Shins, Rolling Stones...

Movies:

Dark Crystal, Princess Bride, Usual Suspects, Napoleon Dynamite, Incredibles, American Beauty, Magnolia, Team America, True Romance, Pleasantville, Saved, Better Off Dead, Labyrinth, American History X, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Aliens, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Run Lola Run, Amelie...

Television:

I don't watch it much.

Books:

Grapes of Wrath, 1984, The Known World, A People's History of the United States, Nickle and Dimed, The 48 Laws of Power, ReThinking the Color Line, Kids Are Worth It, Diet For a New America, To Kill a Mockingbird, Public and Private Families, What's the Matter with Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, Acts of Rebellion, Blowback, Beyond Chutzpah, Overthrow, Fateful Triangle, The Race Card, Hellfire Nation...

Heroes:

Amy Goodman, Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, Ward Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr, Howard Zinn, Arundhati Roy, Norman Finkelstein, Ralph Nader...

My Blog

Oglala Sioux regain lost territory

Sitting Bull's tribe to regain control of southern Badlands By Leonard Doyle in Washington Tuesday, 10 June 2008 ...
Posted by Pissy Joey on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:53:00 PST

I’m voting Republican...

Most of these issues refer to specific Republican bills or policies. But, let's be honest; how hard are the Democrats fighting against these policies? The U.S. voters put the Democrats in ...
Posted by Pissy Joey on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:56:00 PST

tax plan of Obama

Thanks, Compañero ...
Posted by Pissy Joey on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:23:00 PST

make the children pay...

...they always do.Collective punishment of innocent kidsThe Israeli blockade of Gaza is "one of the most shameful examples of inhumanity" of this century, said the Beirut Daily Star in an editorial.&n...
Posted by Pissy Joey on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:45:00 PST

Cure for malaria?

"Between one and three million people die of malaria every year, 90 per cent of them children under five." Jeez.Malaria: a miracle in the making offers hope to millions worldwide ...
Posted by Pissy Joey on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:04:00 PST

Senator Jim Inhofe’s voting record

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Posted by Pissy Joey on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:45:00 PST

Awaiting the next "Revolution"

Thanks, CompañeroAwaiting the next "Revolution" Order of appearance: Fidel Castro, Mao Zedong, Lenin, Gandhi, Ho Chi Minh, Rosa Luxemburg, Martin Luther King Jr., Karl Marx,...
Posted by Pissy Joey on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:09:00 PST

US quits the UN Human Rights Council

Thanks, MarinéUS quits the UN Human Rights CouncilHuman Rights Tribune | 6 June 2008There was widespread consternation on Friday at the Palais des Nations in Geneva when the US mission gave up his obs...
Posted by Pissy Joey on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:22:00 PST

you get what you pay for

On average each day in 2007, the United States gave $6.8 million to Israel; much of which was used in "securing" the occupied territories. This one-sided support for Israel is one of the m...
Posted by Pissy Joey on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:23:00 PST

democracy ignored

In an interview on the fifth anniversary of the US invasion earlier this year, ABC News correspondent Martha Raddatz pointed out two-thirds of Americans believe the war isn't worth fighting. Cheney im...
Posted by Pissy Joey on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:03:00 PST