In which I direct Oliver Wendell Holmsian indignation (as expressed in “Old Ironsides”) at the billionaire owners of “Washington Post” and “L.A. Times.”
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Washington Post, a Harpy of the Shore
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Chicago’s Harpies Take Down LeBron
The thuggish way that the Chicago Bulls ended the Miami Heat’s streak recalls Oliver Wendell Holmes’s “harpies of the shore.”
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Literature about Health Care Reform
At present I am one of those liberals in a high state of anxiety about the prospects of Obama’s attempts to bring us universal health care. I find myself careening through the highs of hope and the lows of fear. I watch the political proceedings minutely, then turn away discouraged, then read some columnist […]
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