That Social Security statement you used to get in the mail each year? No...
If I were to retire at the age of 62 - I won't, since I have a school-aged child - my Social Security payment would be about 2/3s of what it would be if I were to retire at 66, my full retirement age.
View ArticleJournalism, by Joe Sacco – a review
Cartoonist/war correspondent Joe Sacco’s new book, JOURNALISM (Metropolitan Books; on sale June 22, 2012) is doing an interesting thing, addressing wars and other conflicts in recent human experience...
View ArticleThe new poll tax: voter ID
The right of citizens of the United States to vote...shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay poll tax or other tax.
View ArticleAlbany’s Citizens’ Police Review Board – does it matter?
Albany, does the Citizens' Police Review Board matter or not?
View ArticleLet me see your reading list – sorry, not available
One of the provisions of the so-called USA PATRIOT Act seemed to allow federal officials, such as the FBI, to demand records from various institutions such as libraries. Moreover, the subject of the...
View ArticleI’m so over the primaries
A bunch of calls from unfamiliar numbers, from candidates and their allies, but also from spouses, children, and at least one grandmother.
View ArticleAn unwitting participant in an international travesty
Read Neil Gaiman's post for "a behind-the-scenes horror story from someone in the film that's shaking the world."
View ArticleThree myths about copyright law and where to start to fix it
The increasing length of copyright protection is not to the country's best interest.
View ArticleSalon.com calls Andrew Cuomo a “fake Democrat”
People who I know who are follow politics far less than I do have referred to Andrew Cuomo as a DINO.
View ArticleRun, Hide, Fight: Alabama’s video response to mass shootings
A lot of the information is common sense. Of course, in stressful situations, common sense is not as common as one would think.
View ArticleDid Watergate matter?
When Barack Obama was running for President, part of his pitch to voters was the need to restrict the White House.
View Article“Working Families Flexibility Act”: anti-workers, anti-family
The only good news is that Working Families Flexibility Actl will never pass the Senate, and the President has threatened to veto it in any case.
View ArticleYour dairy products … with aspartame… without you knowing
I'm requesting that you bug your members of Congress on this, and anyone you know who knows how to make a lot of noise on health issues, consumer issues, freedom of information issues.
View ArticleSome cake for your Constitution and Edward Snowden
I was a tutor of freshman taking the basic American Politics and Government introductory course back in the late 1970s.
View ArticleDOMA is only partially dead
So many complain, rightly, of an uninformed, or ill-informed, public, so the informers ought to get it right.
View ArticleThe Census site with Congressional district data is cool. Really.
The cliche is "Knowledge is power", but it is no less true for that.
View ArticleThat aluminum can you’re drinking from costs more than it should
The best source of information turned out to be The Daily Show last Thursday, which not only took on Goldman Sachs, but Charles Gasparino, a Fox Business News reporter, who read the New York Times...
View ArticlePlease don’t sue me, Mr. Faulkner!
The court also stated 'how Hollywood’s flattering and artful use of literary allusion is a point of litigation, not celebration, is beyond this court’s comprehension.'"
View ArticleEnd the blood donation ban on gay men
I had thought the ban on using the blood of gay men was just based on a consensus of the scientific community. I was wrong
View ArticleShould ‘citizen initiative and referendum’ come to New York?
Initiative and referendum can be more the problem than the solution.
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