Author: timelord

Are you a student having trouble understanding what the concept called “Catch-22” means? It’s at the core of the novel “Catch-22” by Joseph Heller, which is today considered a classic and is widely...

The reactionary rabid right Republicans controlling the House appropriations subcommittee have voted to defund PBS and NPR.  The counter-campaign has begun, with an ongoing petition at Move On...

“General Motors plans to eliminate 25,000 jobs in the United States by 2008” begins the AP story by John Porretto, an attention-getting lead.  But it is virtually the last time in the article that indicates this...

I was party to a conversation about whether Bush actually believes what he says when he insists charges that abuse is going on at Guantanamo are “absurd,” or whether he is really disassembling. I think the answer is...

The dinosaurs of American politics and business, hopelessly addicted to fossil fuel money, may soon be extinct.  British industry is waking up to a major reality of the future: the climate crisis. A report by Roger Harrabin...