Posts and articles concerning life in America
I have been following the Detroit bankruptcy story and thought the following syndicated column from David Sirota (“Don’t Buy the Right-wing Myth About Detroit”, Salon.com, 23 July 2013) worth sharing. Sirota asks good questions and supports his arguments with statistics,
Like so many of my generation of European-Americans a significant part of my conscious being has been devoted over the short span of my life to answering the question “Who am I?” In the face of the material well-being of
Recent buzz in the blogosphere has concerned itself with Kelly Williams-Bolar (Kelly Williams) a socially ambitious, presumably single mother of two young girls “trapped in poverty” and condemned to substandard schooling. I became aware of the facts through an article
A friend wrote yesterday to ask whether I thought Julian Assange should be prosecuted. A response was not easy. I have a sense of the harm Assange has done, but I also see the humor and I understand that unfair
All of life is local. One might be forgiven for quickly passing over such a banality. And yet, the local is at the very heart of our system of values and the “globalization” debate. Vital goods (organic matter, oxygen and
See : A Nation of Village Idiots in The Huffington Post (www.huffingtonpost.com). What will it take for America’s middle classes to finally understand their own interests? or even, to speak with one voice? There is nothing wrong with the creation
The following is a full-text reproduction of an op-ed opinion by Robert L Borosage, published in the www.huffingtonpost.com. For the original, go to A Debate Worthy of a Great Nation in Trouble. Lipstick on pigs, sex ed for pre-K, earmarks
In one morning’s readings I read about how Carly Fiorina disparaged the candidates’ ability to run a large multinational like Hewlett Packard saying that running a large multinational is not like being President. She’s one to talk: she was ousted
For heaven’s sake, Barrack, occupy the high ground! Attacking McCain and his lapdog, the ambitious, beautiful and clueless Sarah Palin, concedes the impression that they are setting the agenda. Impressions matter. If you are not careful you will find yourself
This morning’s readings brought Colbert King’s OpEd column in the Washington Post, “Jesse Jackson’s Unkindest Cut“, (July 12, 2008, A14) to my attention. As a born and bred WASP refugee of the New Orleans battle front (see below), I desperately