Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

The disgraced ex-Prime Minister throws out his support for Trump, his denigration of Sanders and Corbyn. Well, didn’t the Baroness tell us that her proudest accomplishment was New Labor?

“Citzens United has destroyed America as we knew it,” Farren Cousins accurately commented on Ring of Fire not too long ago.

Harvard University defecates on itself and on all principles of academic debate. Harvard’s Program on Education Policy and Governance hosts a Koch-funded multi-day event designed to promote the “school choice” movement, and no dissenters are invited. The Harvard Institute of Politics … Continue reading →

I mean, I only voted for her to keep Trump out, and because it was inspiring to imagine us finally having a woman president. How many voters felt the same way?

“Where did all the concern over deficits go?” asks Adam Johnson at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. “After two years of the media lamenting, worrying and feigning outrage over the cost of Bernie Sanders’ two big-budget items—free college and single-payer … Continue reading →

Sen. Sasse tried the time-honored extreme-right-wing trick of exploiting the American flag to attack the positions that are most Constitutional. Rep. Lieu replied: “Dear @BenSasse: Those of us who served active duty know the oath we took was to US … Continue reading →

David Plouffe was one of the worst of the charlatans pushing Obama toward more and more regressive stances on taxation and on “entitlements”–yes, Plouffe was advocating tax cuts for the wealthy and he was routinely smearing Medicare and Medicaid. Naturally, … Continue reading →

I refer to the Mendoza book store on Ann Street near City Hall. When it closed in 1990, it was NYC’s oldest book store, having opened there in 1894! I remember the Mendoza well. It was positively Dickensian. When I was … Continue reading →

As a society? Locally, as the City of New York? Bellevue Hospital is the lifeblood of this city — serving more patients today than ever before. Why are we allowing staff to be cut? Why aren’t the philanthropic-minded having benefit … Continue reading →

time, space, and dance genre– Accompany me in the new, Fall 2017 Ballet Review.