Author Archives: jsl915@aol.com

I still don’t have land line service and may not for weeks according to Verizon.  That’s the legacy of Sandy in relatively coastal areas downtown.   Call me on my cell or email if you want to reach me.

Timothy Geithner played the president and the country false by agitating for a pivot to deficit reduction while the economy remained in near-depression doldrums. Could President Obama be insensitive enough, as well as just plain clueless enough to consider nominating … Continue reading →

Michael Hastings describes in buzzfeed.com how the media got prostrate over David Petraeus and helped him dupe the country for a long, long time.

This is really rich.  One of the prime architects and enablers of one of the greatest and most catastrophic frauds ever perpetuated on the American people, and the world—I certainly do mean Condoleeza Rice–actually feels free to stand up in … Continue reading →

In a way, the hurricane drove home the way that environmental disasters don’t discriminate – a lot of fabulous lofts downtown didn’t have power.  And yet, of course, it’s those with the least resources whose suffering is intensified. For Alternet.com, … Continue reading →

From Talkingpointsmemo.com: “A Hart Research study sponsored by the AFL-CIO found wait times were disproportionately longer for Democrats and Democratic-leaning demographics by huge magins in 2012. For example, 16 percent of Obama voters reporter lines longer than 30 minutes, versus … Continue reading →

For Capital New York, I write about three of the biggest.

I told you I was going to last February.  But I didn’t do it. Watching Veronika Part and Roberto Bolle’s emotional performance in Ratmansky’s Symphony No.9 made me think of Inna Borisovna.  To start with, Zubkovskaya was Part’s senior teacher … Continue reading →

Talkingpointsmemo describes the way that “Turmoil Follows as Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Meets Reality.”

No shortage of that these days, is there? Paul Krugman in the Times blogs about the way that “many of the ‘analysis’ articles being published in these final days leave readers worse informed than they were before reading.”