Poll-watching with a cop
Last Tuesday, I was poll-watching in the Democratic primary race in the NY state senate district of Pedro Espada. He’s the one who staged the coup in the state senate by switching to the Republican...
View ArticleMy RSVP to a fundraiser invitation
A few days ago, I received an invitation from Kevin Jennings to an Obama fundraiser. It was apparently aimed at well-off members of New York's GLBTQ community. As much as I want to see marriage...
View ArticleOpening a Second Front against Citizens United
On the day before Thanksgiving, the New York Times ran an editorial called "A Broken Election System." The last section had proposals for diluting the power of money in the political campaigns, but...
View ArticleFighting inequality on the street with "day fines"
When I read about an app that increases inequality on the street by letting people auction off public parking spaces to the highest bidder, I was reminded of a way that several countries have actually...
View ArticleStrange bedfellows at NYC's Pride March
We just got back from watching the pride march from the front steps of a Lutheran church on Christopher Street which now has a gay pastor. We were taken aback to see floats and contingents of marchers...
View ArticleConnecting Hobby Lobby, Harris and Citizens United
The conservative ideology underlying the decisions of the Roberts court can be summed up in the title of Prof. Adam Winkler's post on Huffpo: Corporations are People and They Have More Rights Than You....
View ArticleRegistering voters at Summer Streets in New York City
We just got back from 5 hours of registering voters and handing out our homemade literature about Bernie Sanders. My husband has done this before but it was my first time tabling. It turned out to be...
View ArticleTaxing Inequality: Putting the Gini to Work
On August 9, 2015, the New York Times published an article titled Capitalists, Arise by Peter Georgescu, which proposed a five year trial program in which the government would give a tax break to...
View ArticleCrucial special election in NY on the South Shore of Nassau County, Long Island
Whether you are for Bernie or Hillary and whether or not you are a registered Democrat, you have a chance to strike a blow against the Republicans in the New York State Senate by voting for Todd...
View ArticleTrump is a decoy. Don't take the bait.
I have been concerned for some time that people are so caught up in opposing Trump and his craziness that they are losing sight of the big picture — the threatened destruction of Social Security,...
View ArticleAn incident on the 23rd St. subway platform
When there are delays on the NYC subway, there is often an announcement that the delay is due to "an earlier incident" at some station. On our way uptown this afternoon, my husband and I witnessed a...
View ArticleBreaking down walls
I have in-laws in Texas for whom illegal immigration is a huge issue. Around the time of the election in November we had an exchange with my husband’s niece, who voted for Cruz even though she...
View Article"Open borders" without illegal hiring = more tourists
The “centrists” are criticizing our candidates for promoting “open borders” but the real problem is employers, like Trump Industries and agribusiness, who break the law by hiring non-citizens without...
View ArticleSweden, Covid-19 and the elderly
The New York Times has another story about Sweden’s response to Covid-19, pointing out that its decision not to shut down as thoroughly as Norway, Finland and Denmark has not spared it from the...
View ArticleOpening a Second Front against Citizens United
On the day before Thanksgiving, the New York Times ran an editorial called "A Broken Election System." The last section had proposals for diluting the power of money in the political campaigns, but...
View ArticleFighting inequality on the street with "day fines"
When I read about an app that increases inequality on the street by letting people auction off public parking spaces to the highest bidder, I was reminded of a way that several countries have actually...
View ArticleStrange bedfellows at NYC's Pride March
We just got back from watching the pride march from the front steps of a Lutheran church on Christopher Street which now has a gay pastor. We were taken aback to see floats and contingents of marchers...
View ArticleConnecting Hobby Lobby, Harris and Citizens United
The conservative ideology underlying the decisions of the Roberts court can be summed up in the title of Prof. Adam Winkler's post on Huffpo: Corporations are People and They Have More Rights Than You....
View ArticleRegistering voters at Summer Streets in New York City
We just got back from 5 hours of registering voters and handing out our homemade literature about Bernie Sanders. My husband has done this before but it was my first time tabling. It turned out to be...
View ArticleTaxing Inequality: Putting the Gini to Work
On August 9, 2015, the New York Times published an article titled Capitalists, Arise by Peter Georgescu, which proposed a five year trial program in which the government would give a tax break to...
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