Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

Let’s heart if it for the disabled who put their bodies on the line protesting the shameful act of sadism and genocide attempted by the GOP.

Make it clear to the GOP that until it stops sabotaging Obamacare, there will be no bipartisan cooperation on health care.

What went wrong in Obama’s psyche? Confronted with Mitch McConnell, mortal enemy not only of Obama but of the American people, why could the ex-President only enable and capitulate to him over and over again? Why did Obama not realize … Continue reading →

For forty years, the GOP has been defining elitism downwards, ensuring that to the general public it connotes only cultural, culinary, literary habits rather than how it has more and more ominously manifested itself here. Elitism is what makes possible … Continue reading →

Now that Batshit Bannon is back, he’s using Trump’s spout hole to funnel the most grotesquely defamatory anti-immigrant rhetoric into the public consciousness. Bannon is a racist, bigoted, anti-Semite misogynist who makes no sense and tells no truth. He is … Continue reading →

Reporters on Capitol Hill were discouraged [euphemism] from covering the protests against the GOP’s obscene let’s-blow-up-health-care-for-our-citizens bill. Julia Conley at CommonDreams chronicles the outrages–and the resultant outrage.

A (Russian) friend texted this morning: “in the evening NYCB danced absolutely perfectly. Bolshoi helped them to go to another level!!!”

“Everything he did with ease and perfection. I cannot describe the effect it had on us in Paris.”

Max Fine, one of the original program’s architects, writes The Intercept to make it clear that single-payer was very much in the cards when Medicare was established in 1965.

In 1967, she was in the studios of the New York State Theater creating Balanchine’s “pin-up” soloist in Rubies. In 2017 she’s back in those same studios at the renamed Koch Theater rehearsing the Bolshoi in Rubies! They perform the … Continue reading →