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Our drought-incinerated breadbasket brings ever-rising food prices, while neither presidential candidate nor the debate commission, nor most of the “mainstream”media dare breathe a word about global warming. But 350 has set out on a tour to demand that reality be … Continue reading →

“I don’t support Obama,” Daniel Ellsberg explains on Reader Supported News. “I oppose the current Republican Party.”

The state of our politics and media is so alarming that I haven’t been able to blog about much else lately.  But yes, I have still been going to performances. City Center’s Fall for Dance performance September 30 was an … Continue reading →

Bayou City Concert Musicals in Houston—those wonderful people who brought me down there a year ago July to regale them with tales of Tallulah Bankhead, my vaudevillian grandparents, et.al.—just scored another hit with their revival of Kurt Weill’s One Touch of Venus.  … Continue reading →

 By the so-called “journalists,”–and yes I have no hesitation placing those particular quotation marks–  Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting’s Jim Naureckas details the way that: “what journalists call ‘objectivity’ is really a radical post-modernism–a denial that anything can ever really be known … Continue reading →

We actually have, in today’s Times, a reporter—I can’t bring myself to put quotes around that job description, but I’m tempted–alluding to “forthrightness” on the part of Paul Ryan.

I would suggest to our President that he immerse himself in replays of Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren and thus reacquaint himself with what is proper deportment at a political debate.

It’s easy to feel that much of the rich and super rich in this country have collectively lost their minds.  They’re paying the lowest tax rates they’ve enjoyed since 1928, but they don’t want to pay any taxes at all.  But … Continue reading →

of the way that the “alternate” media is able to anatomize the alternate reality fabricated in the “mainstream.”  William Rivers Pitt describes the real debate debacle—not that  Obama’s performance wasn’t bad. “The real losers and failures last Wednesday were the denizens of the … Continue reading →

Via Color of Change, Dean Baker drives home the reality that “tweak is a code word used by people who want to cut Social Security but lack the courage to say it explicitly.”  And unfortunately that includes the President and … Continue reading →