Who Stole Television News?
BREAKING NEWS - They're selling us another war on television. As a Washington media strategist, people ask me, "Who's offering alternatives to war on the Sunday morning news shows?" As…
Inspection- Forgotten Folks We Thought We Knew
This column was inspired, in part, by Mart Allen's 2013 book: Adirondack Character and his portrait of Frank and Jessie Ritz. I never met Frank Ritz, but I lived…
Abortion and Incest
Alan Grayson fought to restore funding for abortions for incest victims in prison. (photo: Shutterstock) Written by Alan Grayson for Reader Supported News This is the only post that you…
Ye Olde Scribe Presents: WHY Would You Call it THAT?
Scribe ponders: hurricanes. Why do we call them names like "Rachel?" Ms. Scribe knew a Rachel once: ugly, yes, but a fine person: more beautiful inside than 99.9% of the…
Apocalypse Now, Iraq Edition
I wanted to offer a wry chuckle before we headed into the heavy stuff about Iraq, so I tried to start this article with a suitably ironic formulation. You know,…