I’m trying to figure out why all these hurricane relief concerts don’t ring true. Katrina is not 9/11.  Oh, a lot of people died, but they’re fundamentally different.  Unless you worked in the government, no one foresaw 9/11.  We were just walking happily through life, and we got smacked upside the head.  Not only when […]

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 […]

Driving in Santa Monica earlier today I heard George Bush on the radio.  He said to send cash.  To the Red Cross and the Salvation Army. I want to send cash.  But I want to send it to the government. The head of FEMA took the right wing position yesterday.  He blamed the predicament of […]