admin | August 12, 2009
Replying to this article:
I wrote the following on Digg this evening …
… especially since they’ve already missed the (proverbial) boat on actually caring for the sick themselves they way their G-d commands them to.
Failure to provide could be labeled negligence, which is criminal enough.
Active denial of care, however, is the difference between manslaughter and outright [...]
admin | March 4, 2009
The words “earmarks” and “pork” used to mean different things. Until Republicans got to them anyway. Let’s do a little heavy lifting to get them back to their separate meanings.
admin | March 2, 2009
Socialism’s back as a “bad word.” Let’s scrub it up.
admin | February 25, 2009
Just sitting here, trying to come up with some pithy, witty thing to say in my Facebook status line about Barack’s State of the Union Address this evening. Rather than post there (or out-twitter John Dickerson or George Stephanopoulos on the issue), I decided to throw together maybe the “Top Five Take-away lines”– in no [...]
admin | February 22, 2009
Haven’t done one of these in a while, but I’ve had a lot of little thoughts running around in my brain that I haven’t had time to parlay into anything bigger.
COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE COST OF THE STIMULUS PLAN:
I still haven’t heard anyone explain to me — to my satisfaction — how spending $789 billion on [...]
admin | February 13, 2009
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I saw photos today of an eviction. I came away shocked, angry, and haunted.
The most poignient of these photos were of Mary Ann Smith, of Adams County, Colorado. [Alternate link] The photos show pain on Smith’s face that even I can [...]
admin | January 20, 2009
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My day started out with Pink Floyd’s “Learning To Fly” on the radio on my drive to the restaurant where I’d spend the better part of my day. Among many favourite Pink Floyd songs, that one’s certainly near [...]
