Does it strike you that Mexico is suffering from the same violence the US prohibition era spawned: Capone on steroids? Daily Kos has an interesting take.
Two men hanging from a highway overpass fighting for turf, the right to sell someone north of the border some marijuana. Does this make sense?
The problem is, can we reach [...]
We watched Walter Cronkite.
Walter’s most searing moment in history came when he directly challenged the Pentagon and the Johnson administration over Vietnam. Yet, as Glenn Greenwald writes, much of the discussion of Cronkite will miss a key and pointed criticism over the state of journalism today.
We read or hear that Cronkite called the Vietnam War [...]
From out of right field, perhaps below the bleachers, comes the “revelation” in the fake (sic) Federal Register that President Obama has signed an executive order for $20.3 million in assistance to Palestinian “immigrants,” including those with ties to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.
The facts are something else, not surprisingly. The order by President Obama [...]
what other people think?
Perhaps, you’d be more blunt and less polite in that way that meaning gets lost. You’d be like Richard Feynman, author of “What Do You Care What Other People Think.”
Maybe you’d be more like Margaret and Helen.
I would imagine selective memory works well for Rush (Limbaugh, who else?) considering he selects [...]
A small church on my route between home and Conscious Cup once had a sign:
“Debt is borrowing from the future to enrich the present.”
Politically, we’re now engaged in debate over our federal deficit and our debt to be paid by our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The federal deficit as a percentage of GDP declined from the [...]
