Monthly Archives: November 2011

The United States is a country that has received many blessings, and once upon a time you could assume that Americans would come together to take advantage of them. But you can no longer make that assumption. The country is … Continue reading →

Please read this devastating review of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel. Very worth your time and attention. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/nov/10/real-deng/  

Please join me and a host of your favorite stars and political luminaries in celebration of the American National Security State’s first gay couple, J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson. We will be holding our festivities on the well kept … Continue reading →

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/merchants-of-doubt/?smid=tw-Nytim… If you are at all interested in the further exploration of the technique, the rhetorical subterfuge masquerading as argument, that Mr. Chait and Mr. Krugman have been discussing,although it might seem far of field, read Minding The Law by … Continue reading →

One of my favorite ‘media people’ is Tina Brown. I’ve spent a lot of time catching up, after my escape from the Best Seller List of 1968, and my girl Tina has put her finely manicured hand on the pulse … Continue reading →

I haven’t read a David Brooks column since the Milquetoast Radicals of October 11,2011. It was so much hysterical chatter by a frightened bourgeoise conservative, as he confronts the great unwashed hordes,all very typical of a self-aggradizing public intellectual sounding … Continue reading →

http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745648354 Podcast interview of Professor Held on his book:  http://podularity.com/polity-podcasts/david-held-cosmopolitanism-ideas-and-re…    

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-vote-florida-20111031,0,… Should we be at all surprised about the stance of The Republican Party and their need to demonize their opposition, by useing the crudest of tactics of undemonstrated election fraud and the menace of Acorn? The political thuggery of … Continue reading →

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