Warning! This entry contains nothing about health care, global warming, Michael Savage, Chris Mathews (or any other talking head, for that matter). It is barely political. It's about a musical discovery...all good music is political, MHO. So read or not: ...
A number of recent posts occasion this muse-meditation-whatever. The first was a spirited discussion on extending health care to undocumented workers as I call them, or illegal aliens as the post called them. The post was by an author I...
I've had a couple of hard months losing heroes. The eminent historian John Hope Franklin died in late march. I'm teaching a course celebrating his life and work. Then it was Eunice Kennedy Shriver. I wrote a note on her which...
The headline says it all...except for this. The masthead at the cafe now lists only Josh Marshall. So is the chief minding the store by himself, or is nobody minding the store. For all the fixes proposed, things seem to...
A RWJF survey summarized in the September 14, 2009 edition of the New England Journal of Medicineshows that 62.9 percent of physicians nationwide support proposals to expand health care coverage that include both public and private insurance options--where people under the...
Addison Graves Wilson should be shown the respect of calling him by his legal name. Forget that "Joe" stuff. His given name should be good enough for him and we owe him the respect of not diminishing him in...
Perhaps the most appropriate way to celebrate Labor on its weekend is to work. My work is academic in nature, so here goes. I start by introducing someone who probably needs an introduction, especially to those who misuse him...
I'm addicted. Fortunately, my other great addiction, my work, resumes next week and that will help me break the hold of this one. How do I know I'm addicted? The same way one recognizes other addictions...the diminishing sense of elation...I'm addicted. Fortunately, my other great addiction, my work, resumes next week and that will help me break the hold of this one. How do I know I'm addicted? The same way one recognizes other addictions...the diminishing sense of elation and reward during the experience, the increased craving for the reward and the resulting crabbiness and unease of
I'm so very tired of seeing ads from the ultra right on TPM. I don't want to see endless repeats of the ad featuring Nancy Pelosi looking like a Harridan, with the tag Should Nancy Pelosi Destroy the Secret Ballot? ...
.Last week I posted an entry which drew attention to the mobilizing of mainstream and left-leaning religious organizations in support of Barack Obama's health care reform initiative. Consider this an update of the information presented in that post, specifically information...
Yesterday I posted a short entry regarding Britain's Defense of the National Health Service on Twitter. I promised to post anything interesting I found...a daunting task given how fast the scene changes. I don't think I'll become a tweetertwit. I'll...
Just listened to an extended session on Public Radio International's The World:The World's Lisa Mullins talked with a French and a German journalist covering the U.S. healthcare reform debate from Washington to hear what they make of the vitriolic debate...
I mentioned a bit about this in a comment on Ghengis' Blog earlier today. While the religious right is out there doing nasty things about health care, there's another religious side to the debate--several other sides, actually. I thought I'd...
It's ten of seven in the morning. My computer at the university is disconnected, and who knows if it will get re-connected any time today. But I wanted to make sure that the passing of Eunice Kennedy Shriver was marked...
Evacuation Drill O Ship of State THOU, too, sail on, O Ship of State!Sail on, O Union, strong and great!Humanity with all its fears,With all the hopes of future years,Is hanging breathless on thy fate!We know what Master laid...
I just received this e-mail, and thought it would be a good idea to pass it on:Dear Michael,Last night, something big happened.Mike Snider, the owner of a family restaurant in Ralston, Nebraska whose personal health care story was featured in...
Just because somebody should, and nobody has, I will.Didn't know it was Jason's birthday when I posted this, but better late than never. President Barack Obama knows that sharing is caring.The president turned 48 today, but he brought cupcakes for...
This is not the kind of post I like to write, as those of you who read my stuff probably know. No pix, no vids, no quasi-philosophical musings. But NPR has done it again, and I'm back in the quandary...
I'm back in the office today, still packing up for the move to new digs across campus. UGH! But I had a marvelous weekend at the Newport Folk Festival...(nobody calls it by its new "official' name)...the 50th Anniversary Year. You...
As we've been reminded over and over, our representatives are going to be "checking the temperature" in their constituencies back home during the August Recess. If your state is anything like my birth state (I am an American Citizen, honest),...
