To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Okies, Beware
My Blue Dog Blues
Don’t Surrender To Recession Stress
BY FROMA HARROP Do recessions make people sicker? Some studies say yes, some say no. The better question might be, “How is this recession affecting health?” Not in a good way, comes the answer. This recession – depression? – seems different. This recession is messing with our heads. When the economic arrows first turned downward, […]
Limbaugh’s Lemmings
The Real World Of Gay Marriage
BY SUSAN ESTRICH In an ideal world, gay marriage would be won at the ballot box. Voters would recognize that they have absolutely nothing to lose by allowing their fellow citizens the same rights to marry that heterosexual men and women now enjoy. Even many prominent conservatives [say, Sarah Palin] have come to recognize that […]