Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

Didn’t know she’s got her own postage stamp! I immediately bought a book, of course.

Miranda Green in The Hill: “A federal environmental program that distributes grants to test the effects of chemical exposure on adults and children is being shuttered amidst a major organization consolidation at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). What can one … Continue reading →

I realized that I’d forgotten, when I caught up with The Go-Between last week at the Quad, that Alan Bates and Julie Christie, yes one of the 1960s most magnetic parings in 1967’s Far From the Madding Crowd, are here four … Continue reading →

Over the past year, David and Charles Koch have had extraordinary success in their fanatical crusade to destroy democracy in the U.S. and end human life on the planet. Lee Fang and Nick Surgey report on the Kochs’ memo in … Continue reading →

to pit paid leave benefits against the beneficiary’s Social Security benefits tells you what a fraudulent sharpie this little acorn is. She’s as bad as the big, bad tree. No Trump progeny wins his approval–why do they care, at this … Continue reading →

No way he’s ever going to support any type of gun control legislation, because inciting violence is his sine qua non. There would be no Trump “presidency” without his daily attempts to foment violence and hatred directed at Americans by … Continue reading →

Says God told him to incinerate this magnificent planet and hasten the end of humanity. The shameless huckster’s latest outrage is reported on by Walter Einekel at Daily Kos.

Since the Republican attacks on the NEA, et.al. are now as regular as clockwork, why don’t the cultural and performing arts institutions have a rebuttal prepared and ready to go at all times? Why is their response so sluggish? Are … Continue reading →

That would be corporate courtesan Ajit Pai and the we-love-them-massacres NRA. In a typically Orwellian gesture, the NRA salutes Pai for destroying the Internet, a process they label an act of courage worthy of their Charles Heston citation. How sick … Continue reading →

I mean, Tallulah knew in 1939 that the Federal Theatre Project was probably doomed because the Republicans insisted it was riddled with Communists. yet she went down to Washington, D.C. with a raft of Broadway powerhouses to give a barn-burning … Continue reading →