Why Joe Biden Was Afraid to Face California’s Democratic Party

Joe Biden’s glaring absence from the California Democratic Party convention has thrown a national spotlight on his eagerness to detour around the party’s progressive base. While dodging an overt clash for now, Biden is on a collision course with grassroots Democrats across the country who are learning more about his actual record and don’t like it. 

 

Inside the statewide convention in San Francisco over the weekend, I spoke with hundreds of delegates about Biden while leafletting with information on his record. I was struck by the frequent intensity of distrust and even animosity; within seconds, after glancing at his name and photo at the top of the flyer, many delegates launched into some form of denunciation.

 

Orwell Goes Airborne

Bob's article on Ohio Sneaky Stinkray in the Sky.

Speak Up: Columbus Community Pride Spoken Word

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Tuesday, June 4, 8pm-10pm
The Vanderelli Room, 218 McDowell St, Columbus OH 43215
This event will feature local LGBTQIA+ artists of color through live art, live music, and spoken word.

Can World War II Say Me Too?

No matter how many times one

Stop Trump’s Economic Wars!

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Bait and Switch 

Socially Just Dining: Seitans Realm

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Seitans Realm (100% vegan food truck) just rocked the Columbus food truck scene with their righteous salute to a seitan filled menu! (think ACDC) SR’s BBQ “beaf and chedduh” sandwich and curly fries combo gives they-who-shall-not-be-named-flagrantly-anti-vegan-franchise, the finger AND a devil’s horn, with a comprehensively superior option for people, planet and animals.

Seitans Realm’s modern menu for a consciously consistent peaceful society, determined to stop the hemorrhaging, human-caused 6th mass global extinction, includes: two American styles of “beaf” sandwich  -- classic w/horseradish on toasted sesame seed bun, and BBQ on toasted onion roll; a Jewish style reuben on rye with sauerkraut, provolone, house thousand island dressing; a Greek style gyro with house tzatziki, tomatoes and lettuce on warm pita; and a Philly style gooey-cheezy steak sammy with caramelized onions, garlic-mushrooms, lettuce, house made aioli on a hoagie roll.

Geeking out with deadheads, live art, and modern day merry pranksters

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Are you a fan of The Grateful Dead? Bluegrass and funk? A variety of art performance and talent all packed together over a three-day weekend event? I think it’s time you prepare for next year’s Dark Star Jubilee festival, where you can expect all of this and also making friends with a family of people who all share the same passions for these things in life.

I kicked off my summer as an official painter at The Dark Star Jubilee festival. The performance art coordination was held by member of the stilt-walking troupe, The Amazing Giants’ Jessica Jessijem Minshall, who made it possible for me to be there and perform as a live painter.   Live painting to a fully recreated Grateful Dead set from a show performed in Ohio by Dark Star Orchestra was pretty incredible – a slice of a life in the 70s, at least closer than I ever experienced in a live performance. The energy in the crowd vibing off of song after song that created the cult following of deadheads – who continue even to this day. You can say a lot of bands were influential to rock and roll, but there’s no doubt that many of those bands you can list do not have full festivals devoted to their music and essence.

"Why I left Ohio's Medical Marijuana Industry"

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I fought for over 8 years for medical cannabis legalization for Ohio's patients so when it became a reality in 2016, I wanted to take what I learned in my years of patient advocacy and participate in Ohio's budding new green industry. So I was super excited when, in January of this year, I was hired by Green Thumb Industries as their Patient and Community Outreach Manager. I felt this role gave me a great opportunity to continue my work helping patients discover a better and more natural way to treat their ailments and live healthier lives.

But my excitement soon faded when I realized just how oppressive the Ohio Board of Pharmacy was going to be in their oversight and enforcement of this industry. Everything, and I mean everything, we wanted to do to engage the public and the patient community had to be fully detailed in a report to the State inspector at least two weeks prior to any given event and they had the final say in what we could and, more importantly, couldn't say or do.

Cam’Ron, The Fallen + A Comfest Recommendation

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Jay-Z and Cam'Ron publicly squashed their beef last month during Jay-Z’ s BSIDES + Album Cuts show by performing “Welcome To New York City” at Webster Hall.  Makes listening to music less complicated for this Columbus rap critic.

Jay-Z’s rap impact seems almost absurd. Dipset making Columbus their second home during the Roc-a-Fella era was something this rap fan personally cherishes.

Jay-Z owned Roc-A-Fella with Cam’ron’s BFF Dame Dash.

You can hear Hov’s concert via Tidal.com. We were excited and played a snippet via Bboys Steal Attention. This new radio show plays via WCRSFM.org in Columbus. Ohio 92.7 and 98.3 @ 7pm Thursdays.

Both shows appeared online in April. I didn’t know Jay-Z was planning this.

While it’s possible Hov was surfing the web and found my show.

Let’s be more practical: Jay-Z and myself both liking rap music isn’t surprising at all.

I would like to congratulate Columbus’ the Fallen regarding their new release, “Stick Yo Self” EP with French based Decision Making Theory Records/Knotweed Records in March.

ColumbusMediaInsider: Ohio State's Sacred Cow Status Kept Dispatch, Others From Investigating

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The abuse of OSU athletes by Dr. Richard Strauss for the better part of two decades went unreported for nearly four decades?

And when it did come to light, it was not uncovered by the Columbus Dispatch and the city's other mainstream media, but by victims coming forward.

Suffice it to say that the Ohio State University is a sacred cow in the eyes of the local news media. The university has so many patrons and loyalists that the news organizations are reluctant to investigate it for fear of alienating and losing their fickle audience. Not to mention that OSU spends a lot of money on local advertising that the local media does not want pulled as punishment for negative coverage.

The uncritical behavior gets worse as the Dispatch, among others, has a growing propensity to run press releases from OSU as news stories in prominent positions.

For instance, on May 16 on the front page of the second section, theDispatch ran the following headline: "Study: OSU has $15.2B economic impact." The article that followed was credited to an "analysis released by the school" in a recent speech by President Michael Drake.

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