Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

“Why is the U.S. Killing So Many Civilians in Syria and Iraq?” Micah Zenko inquires in The New York Times.

It’s the first step toward destroying not only Medicaid, but Medicare, the other program that for more than fifty years has kept seniors alive. At Common Dreams, Nancy Altman and Linda Benesh explain the way that Paul Ryan may finally … Continue reading →

I will be starting to offer on Amazon “E-shorts,” long-form profiles of people in the arts (not taken from email interviews!) as well as all sorts of other monographs. I have the first one ready, now I need to figure … Continue reading →

This parasite, this six-figure-salary-receiving goldbricker, has the unmitigated gall to attack Medicaid recipients, most of whom work, for not grifting the public in a high-paying sinecureship with Cadillac health insurance–the way she does.

You know, you sometimes have to sit back and reflect that the dire condition American  non-profit cultural and performing arts institutions are in is a direct result of bad, not good, incredibly stupid policy making by corporate types who know … Continue reading →

Courtesy the GOP Senate and House. And don’t forget those lifetime caps the health insurance rationers will be able to impose, thanks to the Republicans. That means you, too, employee receiving employer-based insurance. A public option could have headed off … Continue reading →

Gia Kourlas’s interview in The New York Times with Diana Vishneva on the occasion of her retirement from American Ballet Theatre doesn’t have that canned feel you get from email interviews. The article says that the interview was conducted in … Continue reading →

Yes, the GOP is the party of death if it passes this horrific health care assault. But you know what? It is anyway. It has now reached a point of apocalyptic extremity.

The Democratic Speaker of California’s state Assembly kybashed a vote on single-payer health care that already passed in the state Senate. We don’t need corrupt, anti-constituency, corporate Democrats like Renden. Get lost, buddy.

He’s in shill-overdrive, pitching a disastrous plan to divert our tax dollars into the offshore bank accounts of the rich rather than investing them in protecting our own interests.