What we have here

   is a failure to communicate.

   Many years ago, a friend of mine who had once spent a year in a Turkish prison, for trying to smuggle hashish, reflected on his time there by saying, “We were all there for the same reasons, one, because none of us liked to work, and two, because we were all smarter than everyone else.”

    Now, the true colors are being shown.  Members of this council, who were so recently in support of the Occupy Movement, now say that we have made our point and it is time to leave, because we are damaging the grass.

            Democracy is broken and capitalism doesn't work.  Fact.  Plain and simple fact.  Capitalism thrives on disaster.  It is a system of pr