Author: BobHiggins

Bill Moyers, Cleaning Up Washington

Born on this day in 1934 America’s corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own, they’re privatizing democracy. All the benefits, the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up. Bill...

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Space Travel And Truth In Bumper Stickers

The Sun Former Sen. John Edwards, left, Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama during the Democratic presidential primary debate in Manchester, N.H., June 3, 2007. I sort of watched last night’s debate, when the...

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Alan Ginsberg, Howl and Moloch Live On

June 3, 1926  April 5, 1997 I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning...

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At Long Last, Bush Defines Victory in Iraq

Ward and June al Cleaver and their two sons, Walli and Beav al Cleaver shown here in their Baghdad home.The photo above is said to depict the President’s vision of “the typical Iraqi family in the “post Saddam...

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