No Insurance Company Left Behind
Oh, to be an entrepreneur selling a product that everyone is mandated to purchase, with no cost restraints or quality requirements.
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Texas Text: How Lone Star Evangelicals Are Determining What The Nation’s Children Learn, Why It Isn’t Education, And Why It Might Not Be So Bad After All
To study the regrettable parts of our past is not to excoriate America, and it is delusional to imply that the United States has never done wrong.
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Not The Next Best Thing Since Sliced Bread
Remember voodoo economics? This is voodoo health care “reform.”
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Willie, Mickey and The Duke of Flatbush Ave.
It wasn’t till years later when the adult world forced its reality unto my youthful mind that I learned he was carrying the hopes and aspirations of an entire race on his shoulders as baseball’s first African-American player.
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Peter Kuper’s Oaxaca Diary
“I wasn’t looking for trouble. On the contrary, I was hoping for some escape. Escape from the United States under Bush’s administration, escape from the consumer culture and the ceaseless barrage of depressing news stories.” – from Peter Kuper’s Oaxaca Diary.
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The Toilet Paper: The Newsletter of the United Sludge-Free Alliance
Spread the word about the turd.
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Freddie and Fannie’s Ultimate Free Fall
It sounds like capitalism is a lot like organized crime.
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The Specter of Bigotry in Health Care Demonstrations
Anti-reform demonstrators at the nation’s capitol yelled racial slurs against three Black congressmen, including Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who had marched with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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THOUGHTS FROM AN UNQUIET MIND X
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The artist must be familiar with the work of his predecessors and rather than think himself creating something entirely new he should be aware of the fact that what he is really doing is building on the past, cultivating and nurturing plants that were seeded long before his time. Although this thought echoes T.S. Eliot’s dictum in “Tradition and the Individual Talent” it is nonetheless true. It is not only the road to humility but to durability as well.
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