I’m just stunned how out of it I am.  If I didn’t read the newspaper I don’t think I’d have any clue what was going on. I have a friend in Seattle my age.  I reference the most obvious popular culture icons/happenings and she’s got no clue of which I’m speaking.  And she has two […]

I feel a bit like a Dixie Chick.  I stood up for what I believed and I’ve watched my subscriber list decline. I now understand why everybody’s reluctant go on the record.  The vehemence of dissension is overwhelming.  Oh, you get some reasoned debate, but mostly you receive expletives.  Reasonable debate is out of the […]

NEW ORLEANS DIED FOR BUSH’S SINS POSTED BY JAMES WOLCOTT I was away in Maryland for a few days and my teeny-tiny Sony laptopwas not conducive to blogging unless I wanted to develop witch’s crone fingers. Back in NY now, where I’ll be appearing this afternoon on Air America’s Al Franken show early in the […]

September 3, 2005 United States of Shame By MAUREEN DOWD Stuff happens. And when you combine limited government with incompetent government, lethal stuff happens. America is once more plunged into a snake pit of anarchy, death, looting, raping, marauding thugs, suffering innocents, a shattered infrastructure, a gutted police force, insufficient troop levels and criminally negligent […]