the umlaut of laughter and forgetting

Minnesota Town With Scandinavian Roots Gets Its Umlaut Back, Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Getting Dotty Section correspondent read this morning and got giddy thinking about...

Cover Yourself and Those Things You Love with Solar Panels

The White House has a bet to keep, yeah more important than Net Neutrality: saving some American middle class, because it is disappearing as fast...

Inexplicable Daily Events: The Japanese Care. Congress Lunches on Wheat

We may not think that the Japanese are our keepers, but they are, and may the power remain with them. In 2004, the United States...

Giuliani Out of Presidential Race—Unsure of Lunch Plans

Oct 11 (Reuters) - Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Tuesday he will not enter the race for the Republican nomination to run...

Where Do Bad Lawyers Go? To the Courthouse.

There are bad doctors. Plenty. Few of them though do sophisticated surgeries. Why? If they butcher too many people no one will show up...

Gitlin’s HISTORY:  Summer of Love and Rage

First published here: http://billmoyers.com/story/summer-of-love-and-rage/ HISTORY:  Summer of Love and Rage If you were in the ghettoes of Newark, Detroit or scores of other cities that summer, you...

Mr. Allen’s Flab-o-phobia

Superficially speaking, Mr. Woody Allen’s latest film is more of the same. It is an integral part of his oeuvre. If Whatever Works portrays...

American Democratic Politics – Their Finest Soviet Hour

The New York Times writes today that 19,000 internal Democratic Party emails released on Friday by WikiLeaks, set off a frenzy on the eve of...

With a Little Walk around the Block

Marquel, TPVs NYTimes I Don't Want Her You Can Have Her She's Too Fat For Me Section correspondent, was eating fried butter, when he...

Dogs and Puppies and the New Media

Today’s news of the moment is “Kathie Lee Gifford Drops A Puppy on Its Head.” Popular new media outlets such as The Huffington Post...

Trump’s Twitter Course in Un-American History

Trump-the-TwitterMan is in learning mode, when the teaching does not require more than a few characters. Certainly, he's willing to increase his word-usage, especially if...

It’s The Economy, Stupid!

Finally, my academic position is becoming a run of the mill opinion. In fact, The New York Times made it visible for everybody to...

Mitt Romney, Regular Guy: And Ready to Prove It

With Mitt Romney the presumptive Republican nominee for president, the battle for undecided voters with Barack Obama has begun, and nothing is more important...

The Day’s Long Journey into Night

Writing my dissertation, I learned that thoughtfulness and restrained judgment differentiate the light-hearted liberal of today from the angrier intellectual I once was. But,...
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