New Orleans It’s time to take another look at the state of the Occupy movement in the USA. It’s not easy. It’s an eyesore and a headache. From city to city where Occupy still holds some ground (speaking in a spatial, rather than a political sense) they continue to be rooted out like the last vestiges …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Can Komen for the Cure be Reformed?
New Orleans To me the issue was settled. Nancy Brinker and Komen for the Cure had caved into pressure from the right wing and Cecile Richards and Planned Parenthood had taken them to the woodshed and taught them a lesson about what women really care about and in so doing administered a public humiliation that permanently …
Delicious Ironies: Tea Party Groups and Tax Exemptions
New Orleans You just have to love the irony of the government bashing, back-to-the-basics, tri-corner hat wearing Tea-people now lining up at the whining wall to weep about the fact that the Internal Revenue Service is not bending over backwards to give them tax exemptions by joining the pretend party that somehow their purposes are …