Maybe I’m just looking back with rose-colored glasses, but it seems to me that there was once a time when a tragedy or disaster was given a wide berth… people would wait a long time before trying to make  [more...]

But billionaires with huge interests should be able to give as much as they want. Everything that Romney and the Right say is like a parody – but they mean it.

I’m not necessarily in favor of the current Congressional action to make lawsuits against fast food outlets illegal; it seems that if there’s some new phenomenon sweeping the nation, they automatically want  [more...]