I didn’t see it coming, but now that it’s here, it makes perfect sense. I’m talking about the new vampire craze that has invaded popular fiction and movies, especially but not only for teenagers and young adults. The vampire—that human…
I didn’t see it coming, but now that it’s here, it makes perfect sense. I’m talking about the new vampire craze that has invaded popular fiction and movies, especially but not only for teenagers and young adults. The vampire—that human…
In an article titled “War on Public Workers” in this week’s Nation, Amy Traub connects a lot of recent blips on the news media screen to draw a picture of what she accurately calls a new class war against government…
Thomas Friedman hit the nail directly on the head yesterday in his regular New York Times column, when he wrote: “…when taking America surging deeper into war in Afghanistan, President Obama has to be able to answer the most simple…
Two articles in yesterday’s New York Times reveal how attempts to “game the system” have corrupted both college and the process of getting into college. On page one of The New York Times, Catherine Rampell tells us of 10 law…
I think virtually everyone outside the Joe Barton family would agree that Tony Hayward has failed as the operational leader of BP during the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. From the media reports, it seems as if…
I made a slight factual error in yesterday’s blog. I said that Sweden has a more equitable distribution of wealth than both the UK and the United States. I should have checked it out first on Professor G. William Domhoff’s…
When BP Chairperson Carl-Henric Svanberg earlier this week used the term “small people” to describe, I think, the average person without wealth, social standing or political connections, he was most certainly misspeaking. We can’t look into his mind, but there…
Yesterday I think I pretty much demolished the ideas that less government is always better and that the private sector can always do things better than government can. Today, I want to tackle the companion idea that lower taxes are…
The two constants that unify the Republican party and the right-wing since the ascension of Reaganism in the late 70’s are the calls for lower taxes and less government. These are the two pillars of the right that unify the wing-nuts,…
This week has brought more proof that the news media, taken either as a large group of individual media or a much smaller group of large media conglomerates, are actively facilitating those who want to question global warming. Stanford Research…
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