I don’t have a dog in the Base Realignment and Closure fights that are sure to come, but I’ll be sorry if the Sub Base New London closes, since I learned to ride my first bicycle there. I do kinda wonder what the plan for the future of the whole submarine Navy might be, since …
This cleverly titled Business Week article, “I Want My Safety Net”, goes a good long way towards explaining why the Bush SocSec plan isn’t striking too many chords with people like me. Combine it with the news that UAL just dumped $10B worth of pension obligations onto the back of the already deficit-ridden Pension Benefits …
Sy Hersh was on Democracy Now Wednesday night, speaking mostly of Iraq. Here are a couple of excerpts. Speaking of Bush: He is strange in one way. You know, Wolfowitz, who is nothing, if not smart, would understand this, but Bush is truly a Trotskyite, a believer in permanent revolution. We have never had one …