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My self care is bad for congressional staffers
Waking up and reading the news makes me feel pretty bad. I’ve been dealing with that on and off through the years by writing letters to my elected officials. I don’t know that any of them every made a difference, but it does make me feel better. Lately, it seems like a lot of people […]
Cranky people
I love when cranky people write in to the newspaper about trivial things so much. This had me chortling over my toast this morning: • “Goes extinct?” (Salish Sea orca population on brink, 25 November). Since when did this become the normal way to talk about extinction? Is this some Americanism that has become acceptable […]
Full employment
After years of hibernation, will the US economy rouse itself for a big comeback over the next couple of years? With an incoming Republican administration hellbent on reflating an economy already near full employment, and with promised trade restrictions driving up the price of import-competing goods, and with central-bank independence likely to come under attack, higher inflation […]
You don’t know how much I love Christmas
You don’t know how much I love Christmas
Matthew Shepard’s murder kept me in the closet a long time.
My family watched a lot of The 700 Club. I read about Matthew Shepard’s murder in its newsletter on the long walk home from school one day. I don’t remember the exact words. I do remember the day. It was cold, overcast, and miserably damp. My feet squelched in the mud. The newsletter must have […]
While you’re waiting for the bus
How the lawyerly discourse of drone warfare misses the point The New Iron Curtain Really Have to Wonder About the NYT’s Judgment Over and over the NY Times has shown itself to be so wedded to the view from nowhere that they mislead and confuse. Don’t waste your subscription dollars on them. I can’t believe […]