Month: April 2006

Yesterday, I visited my son’s plant in rural Kentucky.He runs a small business with about 20 employees making parts and assemblies for the medical and aerospace industries. He told me that in the past to produce the amount...

“[I]n times of crisis it’s interesting that people don’t turn to the novel or say, ‘We should all go out to a movie,’ or ‘Ballet would help us.’ It’s always poetry. What we want to...

This is an Unhosted Cafe. Coffee & Tea under the window.Goodies on the platters. Beautiful flowers always found at parvum opus Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier) May the 4’s flower for...

Current political discourse is dominated by Freedom: it forms the foundational myth of the US and it’s being exported to the world – apparently the US has excess supply. The neo-liberal reform programme in Europe is...

The Tomasky Solution Atrios links to this post over at The American Prospect. He asks what we think. Here’s what I think. I don’t know what it is about those folks over at The American Prospect, but every time I read...