An Oily Problem
I was on my way down to Zucotti Park on Thursday evening and ran into a march against the Keystone Pipeline. Okay, I thought, that’s a specific that needs addressing. Good for them. There’s been a lot of noise lately about the
Month: October 2011
We Should All Doubt Thomas
A little noticed story appeared on page 20 of the 11/25 New York Times. Popular NPR, All Things Considered, co-host Michelle Norris will be leaving her post on the show until after the 2012 presidential elections because he husband Broderick Johnson will
The Corporations Won’t Get it Done
Watched an interesting discussion on the Chris Matthews show in which it was correctly pointed out that Obama made a huge mistake by saying in public that the Republicans wouldn’t play nice with him. It made him look weak and ineffectual. What
Those Old Abortion Blues
I know the anti-abortion forces think they’re on a mission from God and that’s what’s so depressing. I mean if they want to replace logic with faith in their own lives that’s their business, it’s when they decide that they know what’s
Paying For Art
The Tuesday August 2nd, New York Times Arts section has a page one story written by Robin Pogrebin about a woman named Erika Nelson who horror of horrors just lost her $2,000 grant from the state of Kansas that supports her mobile
The Nuts Bloom for Awlaki
Dick Cheney in a recent talk regarding Obama’s ordering the death of Anwar al-Awlaki claimed that the President should apologize to the Bush Administration for claiming that they overreacted to 911 because he’s dong the same thing. That’s right Dick, Obama has
Why We Are Where We Are
I haven’t done a lot of writing on our nations foreign policy, mainly because it takes a whole other set of research and I haven’t had the time, but I have been accumulating bits and pieces along the way and slowly but