Krugman, after showing that Bush’s “claim that blacks get a bad deal from Social Security is false” (because the higher death rate among blacks is mostly due to the high number of deaths among young men, not blacks who have held down jobs all their life), he proceeds to attack Bush on the grounds that [...]
Up till now I’ve resisted putting a “donate” button on my site. But the fact is that I now have over 500 people a day visiting the site and if out of all those readers I got $11 a month the site would be self-supporting. As an added incentive to give even more money, I [...]
Robert Dwan, who directed the show “You Bet Your Life,” with Groucho Marx, on both the radio and television, died last Friday at the age of 89. I learned about it from his daughter, the documentary filmmaker Judith Dwan Hallet, who is a family friend. It is clear from both the obituary, and this interview [...]