Month: December 2012

I watch the posturizing during the arguments over the expiration of the 2001/2003 Tax Plans, the triggering of the debt-related sequestration of spending cuts, and what is generally referred to as the fiscal cliff. And I wonder — how does so much hyperbole qualify as negotiation? Each side has taken a public stance in which […]

In a certain dead space in my being, I admire the work they have done, their commitment, their skill. They set out to bring unions, women, immigrants, gays, and all non-white non-males to their knees. They dedicated themselves to this for the past generation — they looked at a 30, or 40-year timespan. The next […]