The following is a slight reworking of some thoughts I had in responding in a comment to a thread elsewhere. The first part is to point out how parsing of language allows the Republicans to attack deceptively. The...
Read Moreis the title of an incredibly powerful piece by Ed Harriman in the London Review of Books, here Let me offer just a few snippets: The GAO report makes clear that the Americans had given little thought as to how they might...
Read MoreWE KNOW what July 4th is. What about July 5th? After the fireworks, the music, the rhetoric of freedom — what then? The party is over. Can we think about what, exactly, we were celebrating? Today’s date puts the...
Read MoreOkay, so since I am a teacher, people will think this is self-serving. Actually, I offer this diary not because of my own-situation: I am well-paid by national standards, and because (a) I bought my home well befoe I...
Read Moreis the title of a piece in tomorrow’s Washington Post Magazine by Gene Weingarten. It begins I recently tried to find Jesus Christ, but I couldn’t get past his attorney. Mr. Christ, 53, lives in Washington....
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