Tag Archives: pakghanistan

A StevieslawSmorgasbord: On Wanting More.

Posted on February 24, 2011 by stevieslaw

AStevieslawSmorgasbord:  On Wanting More. A friend of mine said yesterday that she had never seen a sadder paper.  She was talking about our local newspaper, the CDT, and for a minute I thought she might be making a general—and a … Continue reading →

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Stevieslaw Exclusive: Marsupial Research Funding to Spike.

Posted on February 17, 2011 by stevieslaw

Stevieslaw Exclusive: Marsupial Research Funding to Spike. Stevieslaw has learned, through Wikileaks, that in spite of the trying economic times and the rhetoric surrounding budget cuts, additional funding will be made available for Marsupial Research at the Bronx Zoo.  Smokey Diamond, … Continue reading →

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Stevieslaw Exclusive: What Will the Pakghanistanis Do?

Posted on February 12, 2011 by stevieslaw

New Game Sweeps the Nations Smokey Diamond, cultural affairs correspondent at Stevieslaw, has been following a new interactive computer game that is sweeping college campuses and occupying tables at Starbucks across the country.  The game, called “What will the Pakghanistanis … Continue reading →

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Newsbriefs You May Have Missed: 15. Obama to pull plug on poor.

Posted on February 11, 2011 by stevieslaw

15. Science shows poor people do not get cold. Citing wire reports, our local newspaper—the CDT— reported on February 10th that President Obama wants to cut 2.5 billion from the 5 billion dollar Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, a home … Continue reading →

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Where Have All the Protest Singers Gone?

Posted on January 23, 2011 by stevieslaw

Where have all the protest singers gone? Lately, I seem just as likely to break into a song by Tom Paxton as I am to say something intelligible.  Perhaps it’s just me, but I miss the protest songs and the … Continue reading →

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Newsbriefs You May Have Missed: 9. Scrubbing the Clean Air Act

Posted on January 22, 2011 by stevieslaw

9. EPA to become CPPA Buoyed by their success in repealing Obamacare, House Republicans are, according to Renee Schoof of McClatchy Newspapers, getting ready “to rewrite the Clean Air Act so that it can’t be used to fight climate change.”  … Continue reading →

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Newsbriefs You May Have Missed: 6. American Drone.

Posted on January 19, 2011 by stevieslaw

Newsbriefs You May Have Missed:   6. Congress Drones on It’s good and good in Pakghanistan this week, as reported by Marc Levy of the Associated Press.  For one thing, a major GOP Congressional delegation met with Hamid Karzai and some … Continue reading →

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Briefnews Items you May Have Missed: 5. 8rms, riv vw.

Posted on January 7, 2011 by stevieslaw

5. U.S. to build settlement on the west bank of the Kabul river Stanley Spade, chief spokesman for New Levittown houses announced this morning that his company will build a settlement on the west bank of the Kabul River, near … Continue reading →

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