You do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Thoreau: Journal, March 15, 1854
Current columns by Ben Tanosborn
(in chronologically descending order)
| Iraq's election results will confirm, but not bestow power | 07-03-10 |
| Neither an idealist nor an ideologue... just an American politician | 22-02-10 |
| Jobs, jobs, jobs: gone, gone, gone! | 02-02-10 |
| Last rites for America's near-death democracy | 26-01-10 |
| US needs economic enlightenment, not economic "recovery" | 16-01-10 |