The trouble with democracy is that it depends on people being able to see the elephant in the room and the cat out of the bag. We’re about to see if Americans can pass Democracy 101.
Since the 1960s Republican strategy has been: a) win at any price, b) polarize the electorate by exacerbating cultural differences, [...]
In the August 8th Times Literary Supplement there is a piquant 1936 photograph by Alfred Eisenstadt of four ballet dancers in a window at The School of American Ballet. George Balanchine, cofounder with Lincoln Kirsten of the school, had a famous penchant for tall, lithe women dancers. One can’t tell from Eisenstadt’s photo how tall [...]
Read More...The fallout from the subprime mortgage crisis keeps ambushing us. As I scan the world wide web I see another rogue wave rolling in as homeowners ask themselves why they shouldn’t be given property tax relief in light of declining market values.
Read More...Remember the blonde with the gold circle pin who was the standard of everything you couldn’t live up to in high school? She reminds me of the handmaiden of globalist greed that masquerades as our foreign policy.
We assume everybody secretly wants to be like us. But we never ask ourselves: does this mean that everybody [...]
The Senate this week voted 69-30 to end debate on the bill to prevent cuts in physicians’ Medicare payments. Sen. Edward Kennedy interrupted his cancer treatments against his doctors’ advice to cast the decisive vote. Only one senator missed the vote. John McCain was on the campaign trail trying to convince voters he’s the best [...]
Read More...We live in a society that has reached an incredible consensus, in spite of all the red state-blue state talk: we agree that it’s something akin to a terror alert to talk straight.
Read More...(This is the transcript of Hot Copy No. 42, my regular pod cast for The Student Operated Press).
Scott McClellan, the former White House spokesman, has written a book confirming some of the public’s worst suspicions about the presidency of George W. Bush. McClellan (inset) says, among other things, the White House lied us into [...]
It’s interesting how eager both the left and the right wings are to pull the trigger on Scott McClellan, the former White House spokesman, who has written a book confirming many of our worst suspicions about the Bush Administration.
If he knew his bosses were lying about Iraq and Valerie Plame, the CIA undercover agent whom [...]
Greg Palast, the outré investigative reporter, claims the Iraq war and the subsequent surge are a global swindle— read about it here— a conspiracy of government and industry to pick our pockets and to hell with the future.
How much truth there is in this, if any, remains to be seen. But considering the sheer amount [...]
Now that our planet, a betrayed beloved, is strongly suggesting to us
that unremitting consumerism may just dig us a hole to hell, we might learn a new way of living from the resourcefulness of children.
Have you noticed how children build whole worlds with stick and stones, how they improvise, making magic circles, giving strange animals [...]