Archive for March, 2011
Airborne Toxic Event
Published March 31, 2011
In Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise, a train tank car derails, releasing its contents — a chemical called Nyodene Derivative, or Nyodene D — in a black, billowing cloud. The narrator’s son Heinrich reports that Nyodene D has been found to cause “urgent lumps” in rats. As for humans, no one is sure. The authorities at [...]
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Aggravated Assault
Published March 21, 2011
News of the gang-rape of an 11-year-old girl went national on the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. What it showed: We haven’t come a long way.
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Wisconsin Conversations
Published March 7, 2011
A different kind of labor “talks.”
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Reagan: Forgive and forget?
Published March 7, 2011
Enough of the hagiography.
Ronald Reagan was not a great president. He wasn’t even a good one.
(The picture is RR testifying as a friendly witness to Joe McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee.)