Washington, DC: The Recession-Proof Fantasy
by Lawrence McMahon Take a trip to Washington, DC. Ask your average upper-middle-class government or non-profit employee, and you will be certain to hear the common mantra that DC has weathered the...
View ArticleProtest Movement Expands to DC, in spite of Steve Jobs
by Lawrence McMahon October 6, 2011: an interesting day. Today’s events found the American upper-middle-class divided along yet another line: between those who spent the day weeping over the death of...
View ArticleRecent Events at Occupy DC, and the Institution of Private Property
by Bruno Fournier and Lawrence McMahon Occupy DC has made its way into the news this week. For most of its two-month period of existence, Occupy DC has been among the most peaceful and least...
View ArticleRage Against the Machine is just some stupid rock band
Walking down the street, shortly after midnight on a Saturday, in one of the wealthier neighborhoods of Washington, DC, and what does one hear? A yuppie house party, a festive gathering of privileged...
View ArticleU.S. Chamber of Commerce: Jobs, brought to you by American free enterprise
This fall, there has been a big sign display on the front of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce building in downtown Washington, DC. It reads: “JOBS: Brought to you by American Free Enterprise”. Why is this...
View ArticleSelecting Stones Presents: Karl Marx on so-called “Gentrification”
‘Improvements’ of towns which accompany the increase of wealth, such as the demolition of badly built districts, the erection of palaces to house banks, warehouses, etc., the widening of streets for...
View ArticleNotes from an alien’s visit to Nationals Park
by Misty Lee Having spent most of the Earth day studying the dominant human power’s system of government, the alien followed federal employees across the center of Washington to Nationals Park. There...
View ArticleHercules Abdelaziz: I picked up Elizabeth O’Bagy at a shady nightclub in...
by Hercules Abdelaziz Hello, please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Hercules Abdelaziz, and I am the newest addition to the scientific editorial board of Selecting Stones, having started only...
View Article“Generation Opportunity” and Cool Things You’ll Never See on Selecting Stones
By Rick Skull From time to time the scientific editors of Selecting Stones hold meetings in various undisclosed subterranean locations to discuss the direction of future campaigns. On occasion it has...
View ArticleBringing Chinatown to a halt with DC Ferguson
By Misty Lee On Friday and Saturday of last week, I tagged along with some of the DC Ferguson organizers. I didn’t do so as an impartial observer but as an ally and a friend. I was not formally...
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