Author: Kidspeak

Light and Hope in a Neglected Corner

The sun is out! Eliot Spitzer is in the Governor’s office in Albany!  Cathy Widom has done it again! There’s a robin in the backyard!   O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!          ...

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GOP Sneak Attack on Health Science

Our lame ducks in the Senate have reorganized the National Institutes of Health.   No roll-call vote seen, not yet, at any rate. Voice votes conceal all. You’ll be missing some other things in the future, too. A few...

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A Story From the Good War

Mr. Armstrong made vanilla wafers for us. Homemade vanilla wafers. I’d never had any except from the grocery, and these were good, really good. Once he brought hot loaves of bread to the class; they lasted about 5 minutes...

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The DLC Explains It All to You. . .

[update] Did you know?  We are all the Karl Roves of the Democratic Party. We actually lost in this election. Al Fromm, Founder and CEO of the Democratic Leadership Council, explains it all to us today: The big political...

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