News and opinion from around US-opolis for Tuesday, August 16, 2011
When I was 9 I became seriously ill with a very severe case of bronchitis that wouldn’t respond to antibiotics.
I developed an extremely high fever (105 F at one point!) and was hospitalized. I actually don’t remember very much...
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Monday, August 15, 2011
I was born a Democrat. My parents were Democrats before me. My father cast his first vote at 21 in 1936, for FDR. Four years later, when she turned 21, my mother did the same. She came from a...
I am Cyrus, king of the world, great king, mighty king, king of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the four quarters
In this post we will be discussing one of the greatest rulers to have ever lived,...
UPDATED News and opinion from around US-opolis for Friday, August 12, 2011
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Thursday, August 11, 2011
Roosevelt did not accept the simplistic conservative meme that MACROeconomics and MICROeconomics have the same fundamental principles and that government has to "live within its means like families do"... a juvenile concept that the "rabble" can understand, even as...
What's totally oxymoronic is that Hillary has suddenly been reconstructed as the Great (and White) Progressive Hope.
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Wednesday, August 10, 2011
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