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After dreaming this morning that I was sitting across a toy desk from President Genghis P. Yoo, who was talking on a toy phone, playing with little bell-like gizmos that were attached to the old-fashioned fashioned toy and pretending to be trying to get through to someone, and then interacting with his multifarious teen advisors, finding myself not the least angry with any of them, just sort of taking in the pathetic and callow adventure in progress, I got up and began my day.

I decided to do a quick skim of some of my news pages, and was quickly stopped by the discovery that one of my favorite favorites has joined with Kevin Zeese and his phantasmagorical array of progressive nonprofits, that yet another site built to capitalize on our biggest concerns has been cranked out, and I became depressed.

I didn't mention this part of it yesterday.

That professional activists end up attaching themselves to nonprofits so they can be paid to call attention to themselves. On the one hand, they can hardly be blamed for this, needing as everyone does to feed themselves, but on the other, I must remind you, none of this is directed toward effectiveness. It is directed toward the generation of a long circus and the price of admission is called a "tax-deductable donation". This is particularly aggravating when I have to report also that I have seen numerous allusions to the "parent companies" for various of the most popular blogs on the internet lately. So we now have in full swing the mirror of American Corporatism—for profit and nonprofit—in charge of the internet.

It isn't that they do utterly nothing. It's that they only do wimpy things like petition campaigns, file nuisance suits and make wild boasts about them, throw their energies into formulating things like drives for constitutional amendments, stuff that can keep garnering donations for decades with virtually no possibility of giving relief in our lifetimes... or in anyone's.

So, despite his name meaning "coffee" in Boont, I disrespect the living snot out of Kevin Zeese... and the list of names attached to his gravy train. Some of them are, or maybe we oughta just go ahead and say "were" because, yes, they are very soon to be were-leading-lights in the various efforts to combat the criminality running America... or if they manage to stay known as leading lights, it DEFINITELY is delusory... like Obama's change-we-can-believe-in thing. Brad Friedman is only one of the stalest of this bunch. David Swanson is in it. Now David DeGraw is in it. Many more.

This is VERY depressing. We are in very bad trouble.

Maybe I will write more about this, because it has tentacles, all manner of ways to put you back to sleep if ever you start to snap out of the trance you think is your awakening, or maybe I will just leave it at this warning and leave you to google and ponder on your own.

I don't know yet.
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