I know the Senate bill is less than what you’d prefer, okay? It’s less than I’d prefer as well. But it’s the only game in town right now. Let me remind you of three things it does that would instantly improve health care in this country: 30 million uninsured Americans would immediately get access to …
Let me get this straight. The product you put out on the field last season was mediocre, finishing with 6 wins and 7 losses. Attendance has been trending downward for the past three or four years, even with a season that culminated in a Sugar Bowl appearance several years ago. The economy in this state …
Yeah, yeah. Soylent Green was released a thousand years ago, but it looks like the conservative majority on the US Supreme Court saw a rerun of it and decided “Works for us!” WSJ: Supreme Court Reverses Limits on Campaign Spending Royal Dutch Shell’s $10M toward Congressman “Drill Baby Drill” and your $25 toward his opponent …
You do realize that the Republicans are going to bash you no matter what you do in their campaigns against you this fall, right? It’s the nature of politics that your opponent will do that. Wouldn’t you rather be bashed for doing something good for the country (which is, after all, part of the reason …
I heard Linda Ronstadt remembering Kate on CBC’s As It Happens this afternoon. She told a story of sitting at a table with John Rockwell, the NYT music critic, when the McGarrigle sisters sang this song. She said she looked over and there Rockwell was, weeping. Once he composed himself he told Ronstadt the song …
Deaths: Robert Parker, author of the Spenser crime novels. Erich Segal, classics professor, author of Love Story and co-author of the screenplay for Yellow Submarine. Kate McGarrigle, folk singer and songwriter with her sister Anna. Also the mother of Rufus and Martha Wainwright. Kate and Anna wrote Heart Like a Wheel and a lot more.
We’ve all heard that Port-au-Prince has only a single-runway airport. I wonder if anyone in the Army Corps of Engineers has thought of using their updated version of the World War II Marston matting. It has advantages in that it doesn’t need specialized labor to lay it down; all it needs is a flat piece …
It’s early yet, and who knows how this special election is going to be financed, but this stinks. Ed Case has a 37-25 percent lead over Colleen Hanabusa for the First Congressional District seat being vacated by Neil Abercrombie. Have all of us forgotten how much of a Blue Dog Ed Case was when he …
I got really really tired of the Brett Favre “will he or won’t he” retirement saga, particularly when ESPN decided it was worthy of 30 minutes of every hour-long SportsCenter, but I never thought he was too damned old to play the game. I was right about that.
It ain’t just the political press which comes in for my wrath. I got in the car to go to the store this afternoon and flipped on the AM station to hear some of the Saints-Cardinals game just in time for the “halftime report” from Westwood One, which has the radio broadcast rights to the …