From Bob Herbert: The poor, who are suffering from an all-out depression, are never heard from. In terms of their clout, they might as well not exist. The Obama forces reportedly want to raise a billion dollars or more for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So the president went to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and asked the nation’s CEOs to give a shit about someone other than themselves. He promised them he will work on that pesky tax code (the one with the loopholes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Remember when right wing fools were trying to give George W. Bush all the credit for democracy movements rising up in the Middle East? Those were the days. Seriously, this kills me. At least with the “Bush Was Right” meme,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Taking a break from watching and reading about the revolutionary activity in Egypt so I can, ya know, write about it. It’s called “processing.” Or vomiting, your pick. So the WaPo was the first Respectable Beltway News Organ to publish[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Official U.S. responses to the wave of revolutions rolling over Arab dictatorships should tell us something about my government’s attitudes toward other people’s freedoms. In his State of the Union address, the president praised Tunisia as an example of people’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Driving my daughter home from school, I caught the first fifteen minutes of All Things Considered. First up, a story on the “bipartisan” seating arrangements between Democratic and Republican congress-things during tomorrow’s State of the Union address. Secondly came a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach at the Wall Street Journal: Despite the strong association of the term with collective Jewish guilt and concomitant slaughter, Sarah Palin has every right to use it. The expression may be used whenever an amorphous mass is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nothing to really say about the Julian Assange rape allegations. Either his accusers speak the truth, making him guilty; or the U.S. diplomatic and intelligence communities have concocted this mess, making him innocent. It is even possible for both to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last week President Obama flew to India to sell them $5 billion for 10 Boeing C-17 cargo planes — the sixth biggest arms deal in U.S. history. As Jim Hightower points out, this deal doesn’t do much to boost American[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While researching for a graphic novel I am developing, I came across an interesting article by Tony Thomas, an African-American scholar and folk musician, answering the question Why Black Folks Don’t Fiddle. Every decade over the past century has seen[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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