Studs Terkel is dead.
Now this is sad; another great, gutsy guy gone, a true humanist with an insatiable curiosity about the lives of the everyday people he chronicled so well and for so long and who, hence, wanted the line in the header to serve as his epitaph. I just this week read something he placed in [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 22, 2008
Us & Them
Under The Hunter’s Moon ‘08: A Reverie
There are times, and these times occur with increasingly frequency, enough, in fact, that more often than not these days I’m convinced—not suspicious, mind you, but convinced—that we’re but molecules, you and me, in a body politic that’s gone wholly rancid. Sure, it lives, this bloated mammoth, it staggers [...]
October 1, 2008
Dennis Kucinich explains the bailout
Kucinich stood alongside erstwhile antiwar ally Ron Paul yesterday to decry the so-called bail out, and addressed it in an e-mail today thusly:
“Here is a very quick explanation of the $700 billion bailout within the context of the mechanics of our monetary and banking system,” Kucinich wrote in an email today.
“The taxpayers loan money to [...]
