A Very Sick Country
By: David Michael Green, Ph.D So. It looks now like the regressive majority on the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement, his health care bill. [...]
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Geriatric Obfuscating Pathology — Is the GOP Self-destructing? Could We Be So Lucky?
I took a busload of students to New Hampshire last week to observe the Republican primary campaign process up close and personal. Alright, alright, I know what you must be [...]
Doomsday Clock
The supreme goal of our technology is ever increasing speed, so that eventually each traveler will arrive before departing. This will be the end of time when the encounter with [...]
The Young
Young men and dreamers, young women, bold and beautiful—be joyous in your frolic and meditations. Beside the smiling of your sunlit fields the shadow of death glowers. Do not fall [...]
A Better World’s in Birth (Maybe)
If it feels to you a bit reminiscent of 1968 these days, that’s because it is. And that’s a good thing. It’s starting to look like 2011 was the year [...]
How I Got Scammed
Every day you hear stories about well-meaning people getting ripped off through clever scams and believe it will never happen to them. Well, it happened to me. As I write, [...]
We Are Not Your Human Resources
I was talking with a friend of mine the other day about Occupy Wall Street. She said to me “This is what I’ve been waiting for my whole life”. I [...]
The Great Fear is Democracy
Mayor Bloomberg, don’t pull the plug on Occupy Wall Street. Please do not stage a police riot, sending New York’s finest shock troops against the growing downtown community of nonviolent [...]
How Far We’ve Fallen?
How many stockbrokers, lawyers, bankers, accountants, aluminum siding salesmen, rodeo clowns, etc, would turn down a big, fat pay raise if it came with strings attached? What if accepting that [...]
All The Bad News Fit to Print
Sometimes, when certain species (you know who you are) are too utterly daft to recognize the obvious, the Universe sees fit to scream it out in the form of big, [...]
