To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: June 2011
In Pawnee, Follow The Money?
Nothing Merry About Old King Coal
BY JIM HIGHTOWER If some predator were stalking fourth-graders in your community, there’d be a mighty uproar to make the predator get away and stay away from your schools. But what if the stalker is the coal industry, dressed in an academic outfit in order to get into fourth-grade classrooms and brainwash the kids? Unbeknownst […]
The [Political] Rules
BY SUSAN ESTRICH “The Rules” urged women trying to hook a man to play “hard to get.” As insulting, dehumanizing and childish as the rules might have been [for instance, say no if he doesn’t call by Wednesday for the weekend], there’s plenty of anecdotal evidence [not to mention the sales figures for the book] […]