To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Bobo And Bigfoot Skeptic, Over Drinks
BY FROMA HARROP Forgive me, Bobo, but I do not believe in Bigfoot. Nevertheless, it was a delight spending a Saturday afternoon with you – the sasquatch hunter from Animal Planet’s Finding Bigfoot – in, of all places, a midtown Manhattan bar. Most pleasant was your welcoming embrace of one rejecting the existence of the […]
Half-Full Glasses
BY SUSAN ESTRICH Like many people, I have a tendency to spend more time thinking about what’s wrong than what’s right, what’s missing rather than what is there, what I don’t have instead of what I do. My mother was a world-class worrier and a hopeless pessimist. If you asked her why, she would tell […]
Lord Help Us — Bosses Gone Berserk
BY JIM HIGHTOWER The sky is falling! The end times are upon us! It’s all over for America! And it’s all because of you execrable voters. This is the wretched wail of a few corporate chieftains who claim to be somewhere between flummoxed and furious that Barack Obama is back in the White House. With […]
Thank The Wampanoag
Health Coverage A ‘Gift’ To Ourselves
BY FROMA HARROP One of the more curious “gifts” in Mitt Romney’s list of ways Barack Obama allegedly bought off voters was letting young people up to the age of 26 stay on their parents’ health plan. It was a gift, all right, a gift to America. How so? Consider this finding in a RAND […]