Author: Marie2

Master politicians like FDR and LBJ not only had no illusions about their opponents but also knew exactly what was required to defeat them soundly.  Watch this currently popular FDR clip again and think it through from a...

Once again, Matt Taibbi dares to mention the elephant in the room:  How the Hype Became Bigger Than the Presidential Election … What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but...

That’s what my then eighty-six year old Uncle Lou said.  To me.  In a moment when others weren’t present.  I asked if it had been a WPA job and he said that it had been with the CCC.  I wanted to...

As Michael Pollan pointed out in The Omnivore’s Dilemma, we have become the people of the corn.  Only we don’t seem to get that notion.  If we did, alarm bells over this past summer’s drought in the...

Migrant Mother as she was known for over forty years from this photograph taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936. An image seared into the minds of many as emblematic of the Great Depression and the particular struggles of women in...