Archives
Blogroll
- Amazon
- Barns
- Citibike stations
- Ephemeral NY
- Glimmerglass Opera Festival
- Glyndebourne Festival (England)
- Gothamist
- Harlem Bespoke
- Ivy Style
- Joseph Urban Collection at Columbia University in the City of New York
- Kurt Weill Foundation
- La Fenice Venice
- Lincoln Center Summer Festival
- Mayflower Society
- Metropolitan Opera
- Monteverdi Choir
- Municipal Arts Society
- Museum of the City of New York
- National Jazz Museum in Harlem (Smithsonian)
- National Women's Rights Historical Park at Seneca Falls, NY
- Opera America
- Oratorio Society of New York
- Patel and Waterman's History of NY
- Ted Talks
- Tenement Museum blog
- The (Manchester) Guardian
- Walking holidays in England
- Wiener Staatsoper
- Yale Art Gallery
Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com
SEN. CRONYN ADVOCATES A POLITCAL PURGE
He wants Mueller to fire any member of his investigative team who harbors political beliefs that don’t favor Trump. Thus the right wing is now conflating entertaining political opinions with dereliction of duty and with bias, implying an automatic correlation … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
WHAT WE’RE SEEING HERE
is a complete takeover of American democracy by White House, Inc., a battle without quarter against truth, logic, reality, a deformation of government’s mission to protect the lives of American citizens. When staff at the Environmental Protection Agency spoke out … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
HIS KINGDOM FOR A TAX CUT
Sen. Corker can kiss his ambitions to higher office goodbye. He has his, he wants more, and America itself can go to the dogs. Corker epitomizes the greed and selfishness of the old rich white men who head the GOP … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
SEN. CORKER VOTES TO ENRICH HIMSELF
His defense for the quid pro quo that bought his tax debacle vote? He hasn’t read the bill. The incompetency defense. Well, it worked for Condoleezza Rice. . .
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
MNUCHIN BOARDS THE TREASON TRAIN
National security–meh. Treason by the President and his advisers–meh. Ophidian Mnuchin slithers into the Trump’s above-the-law Hallelujah Chorus. We are now talking about GOP-wide cover up and obstruction of justice, an attempt to overthrow democracy in the United States.
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
PAUL RYAN’S COMPLETE INDIFFERENCE TO POVERTY IN AMERICA
Ryan is a punk and a fraud. Ryan claimed he was “too busy,” the Guardian reports, to meet with UN rapporteur Philip Alston to discuss our appallingly high level of poverty.
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
FASCISM AT THE DOOR
As William Rivers Pitt writes at Truth Out: “We are well beyond ‘It can’t happen here.’ It has happened here, is happening, and will happen even more tomorrow. . . This is what fascism looks, smells and sounds like before it … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
SEN. CORNYN DEMONSTRATES THAT THE GOP IS ON BOARD W/TREASON
His responses to Eric Holder tip the GOP hand about where it will side during the upcoming likely judidical bloodbath White House, Inc. will wage to shield its myriad culpabilities.
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
KOCHS & TRUMP PLUNDERING AMERICA
In a new United Nations report, UN rapporteur Philip Alston notes “a dramatic change of direction in US policies relating to inequality and extreme poverty. The proposed tax reform package stakes out America’s bid to become the most unequal society in … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
CORKER VOTES FOR “THE GREATEST POSSIBLE THREAT TO OUR NATION”
That’s what Sen. Corker called adding to the deficit–two months ago. Last night Lawrence O’Donnell laid bare Corker’s monumental deceit and hypocrisy, postulating that Corker may be angling to succeed Tillerson as Secretary of State.
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment