How do you find the name of a killer from the Border Patrol when the government doesn’t want you to know who he is? Easy. Just go onto an obscure but easily accessible, and totally reliable, site on the Internet.
Read MoreSanta Claus is dead! At least, the charity Santa who was born during the first Gilded Age, and whose fantasies about the poor fueled Operation Santa Claus, an enormous, Victorian-mentality welfare program run for decades from the giant Post Office at 33rd Street and 8th Avenue in New York City. Yesterday, three months after the [...]
Read MoreI just made another work trip to Mexico, starting with the bracing metropolitan capital then heading to aching little villages in the South. The US State Department has a travel advisory out for Mexico, mainly because of drug-trafficking related violence on the border. But Americans are avoiding the interior as well. One still sees German, [...]
Read MoreHere’s a must-read from the wonderful writer Judith Levine, about how Wall Street is as irresistible to Americans as wife beaters are to women: For a girl who grew up in a communist family, this month’s events should be cause for fireworks. As Marx predicted, the self-sown seeds of capitalism’s own destruction are spreading tendrils [...]
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In “Born-Again Democracy,” a comment in the Oct. 20 issue of The Nation, William Greider notes that “Our country is at a rare and dangerous juncture. The old order is crumbling, and virtually all the centers of power that govern us have been discredited by events…Given that political paralysis, people have to find their own [...]
Read MoreJoann Wypijewski has a fine piece in The Nation’s Sept. 29 issue, about McCain’s political exploitation of Sarah P.’s MILFy, B&D, Book of Daniel sex vibe. This reminds me of how Sarah’s trotted her kids out. Not just their bodies and faces but their names, which Mom flashes like medals (go to CafePress.com and you’ll [...]
Read MoreAs regular blog readers know, I’ve been wondering over the last few weeks who Francisco Javier Dominguez Rivera was in the US before he was killed last year in Arizona by border patrol agent Nicholas Corbett. So, several days ago, I put notebook in purse and set out to learn. Here’s the result, just published [...]
Read MoreNeed it be said? A nationally important event starts in hours, and you have not learned of it from the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times or big TV. To get notice, you’d have to have seen Slate, Salon, The Nation – or the cover story of last week’s London Times Sunday Magazine. Yes, [...]
Read More(originally posted March 03rd 2008; reposted due to technical difficulties) Calling all serious civil libertarians! News you can use: The first political protest against sex offender civil commitment took place March 2. It happened in Coalinga, Calif., outside the grounds of a 1,500-bed state facility – the biggest sex offender civil commitment lockup in the [...]
Read MoreLarry Mathews in the Washington, DC area. Kurt Eichenwald in Dallas and New York. Bernie Ward in San Francisco. All involved in child porn scandals while working in the media. And now there’s Dennis Melanson, in Canada. His story has been covered extensively but superficially by the Canadian press, including the CBC. The clip I’m [...]
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