Monthly Archives: March 2011

This is What Democracy Looks Like

Posted on 03/31/2011, 8:31 pm, by Kevin Featherly

This Is What Democracy Looks Like from Kevin Featherly on Vimeo. A film by Kevin Featherly On March 12, 2011, I traveled to Madison, Wis., with political cartoonist Kirk Anderson and Kirk’s wife Nancy Brewster–a St. Paul school teacher. Together … Continue reading →

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Wisconsin Rep. Grouses About His Salary

Posted on 03/30/2011, 4:40 pm, by Kevin Featherly

U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., feels his constituents’ pain. Especially those who are losing income because of a sour economy and because of Wisconsin’s looming state budget cuts. A constituent at a town hall meeting in Amery, Wis., recently asked … Continue reading →

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Colbert and the ‘Fair and Balanced’ Mural

Posted on 03/29/2011, 3:10 pm, by Kevin Featherly

I missed this the first time around, but it was forwarded to me by my buddy Kirk Anderson. In the video embedded below, Stephen Colbert gives the faux-conservative take on why it was necessary for Maine’s governor to remove a … Continue reading →

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Despite Order, Walker Implements Anti-Union Law

Posted on 03/28/2011, 8:35 pm, by Kevin Featherly

Democracy doesn’t seem to loom large in Scott Walker’s legend. A state judge recently imposed a restraining order preventing implementation of the union-busting “budget repair bill” that was passed March 9 under questionable circumstances. Gov. Walker is unimpressed. From Talking … Continue reading →

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Nic Robertson Lets FOX News Have It

Posted on 03/22/2011, 10:48 am, by Kevin Featherly

FOX News reported Monday that a British air raid over Libya had to be scrubbed because CNN and Reuters news teams were being used as human shields on a government sanctioned trip to the damaged Qaddafy compound. FOX reported that … Continue reading →

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This Is What Democracy Looks Like

Posted on 03/18/2011, 4:24 pm, by Kevin Featherly

This is my musical video record of the protest in Madison, Wis., on March 12, 2011. On that day, some 100,000 protesters converged on Wisconsin’s Capitol City to demonstrate against a bill signed into law by Gov. Scott Walker. That … Continue reading →

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Physicist: Nuke Plant Meltdown ‘All But Inevitable’

Posted on 03/16/2011, 11:25 pm, by Kevin Featherly

Too little too late. That’s how nuclear physicist Michio Kaku describes the efforts by the Japanese to dump water from helicopters on stricken nuclear reactors. He tells ABC’s Nightline: That helicopter dropping borated water is like a squirt gun trying … Continue reading →

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This Verdict Needs to Get Overturned

Posted on 03/16/2011, 9:42 am, by Kevin Featherly

Minneapolis blogger Johnny Northside gets fined $60,000 in a jury trial for telling the truth. According to the Minneapolis StarTribune: Though blogger John (Johnny Northside) Hoff told the truth when he linked ex-community leader Jerry Moore to a high-profile mortgage … Continue reading →

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Something Better Beginning

Posted on 03/11/2011, 9:19 pm, by Kevin Featherly

This is a shot of me performing the Kinks’ “Something Better Beginning.” Somehow my hair that day managed to mimic Ray Davies’, circa 1965. The guitar was on loan from my friend Tom Ehlinger, who also performed that day. This … Continue reading →

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The Earthquake Headline You Won’t Likely See

Posted on 03/11/2011, 5:52 pm, by Kevin Featherly

Japanese Bureaucrats, Onerous Building Codes Save Millions in Tokyo (Suggested by Tammy Nelson.)

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