To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Hounded And Stressed
BY FROMA HARROP Consider Cary Grant in “North by Northwest.” Sinister forces may be chasing him for reasons he can’t comprehend, but this is 1959, and neither the BlackBerry nor the Global Positioning System chip that goes inside it has been invented. And so the mysterious crop-duster has no way to pinpoint which cornstalks he’s […]
Nothing Sacred In GOP Lege
I Had A Dream
BY SUSAN ESTRICH Her name is Susan Boyle. If you haven’t heard of her, you need to listen to her. Consider it my gift to you. Go to YouTube, along with the tens of millions of others who already have, and listen to the voice of an angel – a plump, unemployed, 47-year-old “spinster” [as […]
A Slap And A Slug
Gov. Gooberhead
BY JIM HIGHTOWER Texas politics has long been a source of great amusement for the people of our state, but it’s often a source of bafflement for people beyond our borders. So, sometimes there’s a need to explain what’s going on here, and this is one of those times. In this case, the explanation is […]