stormy weather, but they're not all dead
(the American radicals, that is) History says, Don't hope</p> On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up And hope and hist...
Chirpy
going art-ing tomorrow
Barry and I will be scampering about the galleries in Chelsea tomorrow, but only after a hop down to Tribeca and the Apex Gallery, where the artist Nancy Hwang will be offering gift-wrapping servic...
Philip Berrigan
A great heart and a great mind is gone. BALTIMORE - December 6 - Phil Berrigan died December 6, 2002 at about 9:30 PM, at Jonah House, a community he co-founded in 1973, surrounded by family and ...
making it clear once again,
only welfare programs for corporations are moral in the American political ethos Could they make the nexus any more clear? A special government board earlier this week rejected a $1.8 billion loa...
supper, St. Nicholas' Eve
As a born-again atheist, it's the only way I can bring myself to relate in any way to the Xmas madness. It has something to do with a connection to my ethnic heritage. After tonight, the only fea...
it's good to be reminded regularly--
--that the man sometimes described as the President of The United States is capable of awesome profundity. To wit: "Sometimes, Washington is one of these towns where the person—people who think...
MONEY + FLAG + CHRIST
Unfortuantely I cannot find an image online, but there's an incredible photograph on page B4 of today's NYTimes which appears, I guess without any intended irony, and it says it all. The image is ...
Baritone "trips" with Schubert
We were part of a very lucky audience at John Jay College last night where Trisha Brown Dance Company, Simon Keenlyside and Pedja Muzijevic opened with their production of Franz Schubert's magnific...
could the choice have been more cynical?
Fortunately we have already seen an enormous number of articulate essays expressing outrage that Henry Kisssinger has been appointed to head the outrageously tardy formation of a commission charged...
"because the terrorist threat continues"
By golly, it had just never occurred to me that following through with a promised statutory pay raise would undermine the "war on terrorism." Still, our leaders must certainly know what they're d...