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Obama’s defense in Brussels of G.W. Bush’s catastrophic and entirely illegal invasion of  Iraq was of a piece with his consistent defense and perpetuation of his predecessor’s transgressions, and yet it is stupefying nonetheless. Charles Pierce at Esquire reels  appropriately … Continue reading →

in Maine. Sarah Lazare overviews at Commondreams.org.

The San Diego Opera is the next to fold. Michael Cooper in the Times announces. It’s so gross I’d actually like to go there and see their closing production, Massenet’s Don Quixote, to pay my respects as much as anything … Continue reading →

Two subjects that the “mainstream” media usually won’t touch are galloping environmental degradation and raging economic inequality. And wouldn’t you just know it? Those two nettlesome topics could be taking civilization toward the endgame. No, I won’t say how this … Continue reading →

Let’s make him live by his own hideous homiletics: If starving schoolchildren whose parents are low-income will do so much for their souls, imagine what Ryan swearing off those $350-a-bottle wine indulgences would do for his?

A young opthalmologist told me that she studied ballet and Asian Indian folk dancing up through the time she graduated from college. “I wish I were dancing now,” she said. “No you don’t,” I told her, speaking from the standpoint … Continue reading →

If you want to see the true face of today’s GOP look no further than Marco Rubio’s viperfish little mug. To prove that he’s a big man on the national stage and a bona fide GOPer, Rubio has been coming … Continue reading →

Paul Ryan is a thoroughly dishonest grifter who has been fawningly enabled by so much of our “mainstream” commercial media. But the irony of the $350-a-bottle wine quafer dissing the idea of free school lunches for the MANY, MANY children … Continue reading →

Click to find out what’s going on there. Hibernate during the winter they do not!

In their zeal to put up as many taxpayer-subsidized luxury high-rises in Manhattan as possible, our successive mayoral administrations certainly haven’t given much thought to what’s being displaced.  Or just how diversity-impoverished our ever-more-ghettoized-by income city can become. A woman … Continue reading →