Jared Bernstein at Salon on the next self-created trap that the minority party holding gerrymandered seats bought and paid for by the 1% intends now to spring immediately on the nation--the "debt ceiling" crisis:
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Peter Laarman on Mr. Obama's Deal with the Devil on the Devil's Terms
At Religion Dispatches, Peter Laarman provides a much-needed religious-ethical perspective on the shoddy deal American top legislators have just made, re: the bogus "fiscal cliff" crisis. His opening salvo:
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
William Greider on Fiscal Cliff Outcome: Time for a New New Democratic Movement
And for a countervailing view on yesterday's fiscal cliff solution, here's William Greider at The Nation:
Leonardo Boff on Nativity Narratives and God Wanting to Be Loved and to Play
As the Christmas season ticks towards Old Christmas, this beautiful summary of the message of the nativity narratives in the gospel by Leonardo Boff:
Commentary on New Year's Fiscal Cliff Deal: Entering New Year with Eyes Wide Open
The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; the hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh (Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall [NY: Picador, 2009], p. 566).
Monday, December 31, 2012
From the Blogs: End-of-Year Statements by Phil Ewing, Michael Bayly, and Frank Cocozzelli
Three good end-of-year pieces by fellow bloggers whom I esteem greatly and from whom I always learn a great deal:
Sunday, December 30, 2012
McCain from Fiscal-Cliff Talks (FCTs): CPI is Off the Table (OTT)
As the year ends some things never change: right-wingers continue to lurv them some mendacious acronyms (like, for Catholic right-wingers, TBO, SSA, NFP, etc.):
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