To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: November 2009
A Thanksgiving Wish
It’s Show Trial Time!
BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN You can’t please all of the people all of the time, but President Obama and his Attorney General, Eric Holder, have got nearer than most to pulling it off. A week ago, Holder announced that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators will soon go on trial in federal court in New […]
Insane Debate Over Wasted Medical Spending
BY FROMA HARROP Doctors would jab sharp instruments into King Henry VIII’s arm and drain blood out of his body. The best medical minds of the 16th Century prescribed bloodletting as a means to “rebalance the body’s humors,” the spring equinox being the ideal time. Henry didn’t argue with his physicians. After all, Tudor England […]