We’ve become a nation far more willing to fund our capacity for killing and maiming than our ability to heal the sick and treat the injured.

Oh, come now. We’ve always believed as a country in the art of the […]

I live in Columbia, MO. This has been getting a lot of local air play. But we’re the Godless Hippie city of Missouri, so no one cares.

If it’s so close to the margins that 2/3 of the former salary of the editor-in-chief makes it unprofitable then why aren’t they selling the site?

Sounds to me less like hard-headed business practices and more […]

Looks like somebody killed the goose that laid the golden eggs through a rather ham-handed series of decisions. Yeah, sure, ‘they have every right to make those decisions’. But that’s under the current model. […]

Terribly sorry to hear this. I can only guess (and hope) that your editor didn’t offer you any more because he’s not making any more.

Defenders of the Bush tax cuts used to say with smarmy fatuousness that they were ‘progressive’ and actually a better deal for the lower orders than for the truly wealthy. So wouldn’t it be the case that in these […]

Wow, in the absence of hard figures, words like ‘many’ sure take a beating, don’t they? In fact, it seems like you’re using it to mean ‘most’.

I think it’s reasonably clear that a) the people saying there’s a […]

If so, let’s see that data, because merely saying that the $10/hr jobs don’t get filled does not, by itself, prove that qualified $40/hr workers are available.

I’m scratching my head on this one; where is […]