The Conversation We Are Born Into
WHAT CONVERSATION WERE YOU BORN INTO? As The Association of Writers Programs meets in Chicago, Patterson takes a look back at crashing the Party in Vancouver.
WHAT CONVERSATION WERE YOU BORN INTO? As The Association of Writers Programs meets in Chicago, Patterson takes a look back at crashing the Party in Vancouver.
My friend Gordon wants to talk about God. He has called me from work and over the course of his rambling dissertation on the state of things in his life at present, wonders aloud why nobody wants to talk about God anymore. By “nobody” I assume he means his peers. He wonders why it’s not
Unite The Clans! Do It Now! Part II Robert Kuttner in the September issue of the American Prospect put it brilliantly, “We have been spared a depression only thanks to the portions of The New Deal that conservatives did not manage to repeal.”
Terry Mulligan? For President? Writer, Musician, and Publisher, Terry Mulligan has had enough! His Policy Statement is Write On! He wants a Pro-Choice rider attached to the off-shore drilling Bill! How about throwing the Dallas Cowboys in Prison? Perhaps we should nationalize Exxon/Mobil and use their profits for Social Security. This guy is on to
Patterson’s Vagabonds Respond! Vaughn Howland, a recently retired “Interventionist,” a man, in other words, who dedicated his life to saving people – from themselves – And Gargoyle Publisher, Richard Peabody, have some thoughtful and cautionary thoughts regarding my last few broadsides.
I CAN’T WAIT! I CAN’T WAIT to dump my health care plan and buy-in to a public option! There must be millions like me. It’s time they were heard from in this lopsided corporate harangue over health care!