VA Shame
January 8, 2009The latest yesterday in grand ‘Support the Troops’ style: The U.S. Army said Wednesday that 7,000 family members of soldiers killed in the Iraq or Afghan wars mistakenly were sent letters addressing them as “John…
Monthly Archives: January 2009
‘Smaller Than Life’
January 3, 2009One major gripe I’ve got against the New York Times‘ Frank Rich: He doesn’t publish enough. Rich weaves theater into politics and for the most part, at least this past year, has threaded together the…
Climate Calamity
January 2, 2009No one seems to be paying much attention to the warmth. In this second day of a new year, the biggest problem facing the US — and the world — is not the financial meltdown,…
Hang ‘Em, Hang ‘Em High
January 1, 2009As one of the most-bizarre and just-plain-weird years comes to a close and a new 12-month cycle just cranks off, I’ve gotten this really-bad feeling about Decider George and all the horrible, immoral, illegal shit…