Month: October 2010

Picked up this blast of the ADL, and its bigoted leader, Abe Foxman, a little late, but since the ADL has joined the right wing pro-Israel lobby and will presumably continue with its anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, and anti-Islamic...

During the early part of the housing boom I was living in a rowhouse in Philadelphia. Whenever I would venture into the suburbs, I would marvel at all the McMansions cropping up everywhere. Who were the people buying these...

I guess Joe Klein agrees with me that the single most harmful thing a politician has done to our country since the invasion of Iraq was John McCain’s decision to put Sarah Palin on the ticket. The Stupid has metastasized,...

Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking a global discussion and driving collective action. This...

Paul Krugman has a useful and succinct description of the unfolding mortgage crisis. It’s worth a read just to get a grasp on what’s behind the problem. Yet, he has no real solution. This is why I am impatient with...