Category: America
Posts and articles concerning life in America
Turtle Island and European-American Settlement Patterns
Poverty and the Ohio Media Circus, or When is a circus not entertainment
Three reasons why Julian Assange should be released
Defending and promoting the commons in a globalized world
Another “MUST” read, this one harking back to the Savings & Loan Bailout
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
A Debate Worthy of a Great Nation in Trouble
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
The American Commons In One Morning’s Readings
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
Occupy the High Ground
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
A Little Humor, Please!
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