To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: November 2010
America The Clueless
BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN The American people have spoken, but it’s impossible to decode their incoherent message. Drunk with their capture of the House of Representatives, the Republicans thunder that the verdict of ballot boxes from Maine to Hawaii is clarion-clear: The ultimate evil in America is government, specifically government as led by President Barack Obama. […]
It’s All Local
From Geek To Geezer
BY FROMA HARROP It’s a fair generality that the young are more technologically up-to-date than the old. There comes a time when one concludes that the wizards of invention have gone far enough. There’s no point in cluttering one’s mind with new gadgets and their instructions. A 96-year-old of my acquaintance was a Navy radioman […]