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Change is Coming
I’m sure you have noticed that commentaries like this one have been vanishing from the New Mexico Independent. I don’t speak for management but I have asked “Why?” and in this, my last essay here, I...
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Suppose you were an idiot…
“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” I quote Mark Twain for the laugh, yes, but also as a reminder that American dislike of government is deeply...
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Recognize the good guys by their enemies
I’m sitting in the ICU, at the bedside of an old friend, as caring doctors and nurses help him fight for his life – his life! – against a virulent infection, a gift from the hospital. He’s sedated, so...
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Politics reflects who we are
Dick Cheney’s complaint that President Obama is “dithering” on Afghanistan calls into question what I do here most weeks – political commentary. For the political prism is too narrow, thin and, yes,...
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Howl-o-ween for journalism
Judging from the Albuquerque Journal’s Tuesday, Oct. 27 edition, there’s not a ghost of a chance the newspaper will emerge from its dark netherworld to do…well… journalism. The Halloween – tinged...
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They always sacrifice the bottom-dwellers
The Independent’s daily coverage of the Legislature’s struggles to balance the budget reminds me that the world is vertical. In my first comment for the Independent back on June 13, 2008, I noted we...
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News organizations should help us decipher health care reform
I was putting the finishing touches on a comment about how hard it is to grasp the complexities of health insurance reform when the voices of KUNM reporter Jim Williams and Senator Jeff Bingaman seized...
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Shame is dead
Talking about l’affaire David Letterman, one Eric Dezenhall, a consultant on crisis management, told the N.Y. Times on Sunday: “With the death of shame and geometric shortening of attention spans,...
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The attack of the robocalls
Autumn in Albuquerque is tasty and soft. I inhale, almost chew the aroma of the roasting chile and slather the stuff itself on everything. The cool, meanwhile, not only refreshes but also inspires my...
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Fiction is fundamental to all our politics
Richard Berry, the Republican candidate for Mayor of Albuquerque wants to run the city like a business, but hasn’t told us which – AIG, Lehman or GM? To his credit, though, he knows what’s real and...
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