Would you vote to make Andrew M. Cuomo New York’s governor? Well, probably, if you’re a Democrat, maybe if you’re an independent, and maybe not if you’re a Republican. I often but not always vote Democratic, but I’m thinking maybe not. Here’s why. The first thing the popular state attorney general did after announcing his [...]
Read More...I like the trick can opener and kitchen knife advertisements. They come to me as comic relief from the unrelentingly sleazy health insurer, pharmaceutical, accounting and lawyer advertisements. Television advertising strikes me as a composite portrait of a corrupt society. Buy our insurance and we guarantee we’ll pull every dirty trick in the book to [...]
Read More...President Obama has Solomonically summoned a bipartisan summit to discuss health care. Maybe he should call a summit of our generals and economists. They could discuss who is winning the war on terrorism, us or the terrorists. Why economists? Because in our Pavlovian fashion we haven’t been paying much attention to terrorist strategy. The terrorists [...]
Read More...Only someone as ignorant as I am would try to psychoanalyze an entire people—and certainly not a people as diverse as Americans—but just for the sake of argument suppose that Americans at this juncture in their history are especially resistant to anger management and conflict resolution because deep down they suspect they’re being screwed on [...]
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