To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Money And Power
BY SHARON MARTIN
If money is power, shouldn’t the collective power of the American taxpayer be in charge?
No, because we’ve been outspent, in dollars and...
Requiem For The Connecticut 28
BY HARRY T. COOK
On Friday, a young man shot and killed his mother in their home. He then went to the school where she...
Honor, Compromise And Sound Government
BY VERN TURNER
My friend and colleague, Mr. Steve Love, coined some wonderful thoughts about our state of the state and the machinations between our...
David Geffen’s Gift
BY SUSAN ESTRICH I will never forget the day I went over to the loan office that used to be at Harvard’s Holyoke Center and gave them my last student loan repayment check. I walked out actually feeling lighter. I was a tenured professor at Harvard at the time, but I remembered – and still […]
Still Children
BY HARRY T. COOK
When we were children, we tended to think that what obtained in our "now" would be maintained forever, that we would...