Special Commentary

The cable chatter about Scott Brown’s surprise – to everyone but Massachusetts voters – victory in the US Senate race to succeed Edward M. Kennedy focused primarily on how it might affect the debate on Health Reform in the United States. Sixty Democratic Senate votes in favor had become fifty-nine, and in the math of… »

The December 2009 edition of the Archives of Ophthalmology reported an explosion in the incidence of myopia during the past thirty years.  In 1971-72, twenty-five percent of Americans aged 12-54 had myopia. By 1999-2004, the number had jumped to 42 per cent. We are becoming nearsighted. The big picture is increasingly out of focus. That’s… »

While Congressman Joe Wilson’s, “You lie!” distracted public attention from President Obama’s September 9  health reform speech to the Congress, the President’s real fib that evening went almost unnoticed.

“I’m not the first President to take up this cause” (without a doubt), “but I am determined to be the last.”  No way!  Whatever happens this year,… »

A flash of light was burning on my skin, immediately followed by sounds that penetrated my body, leaving behind my cold flesh and taking my dreams forever.

In recent months Guatemala has been experiencing yet another period of senseless violence that make up so much of its history. It is just another example of a state… »

Small businesses are the backbone of our economy and the engine of job creation. – Ronald Reagan

I never met a small businessman yet who didn’t have one finger up his ass and the other on the scales. - Mad Dog Howard

Like many older married men, I’d rather… »

The following story explores some recent developments in the central tragedy of modern Guatemalan history – the genocide which took the lives of hundreds of thousands of Maya during this country’s long civil war.  In an email conversation with La Cuadra Dr. Barbara Rose Johnston shared additional information about the international financing of the Chixoy… »

One of the goals of La Cuadra is to bring our readers some geopolitical perspective on events in Latin America and beyond. Truth be told, there are not a lot of accessible reports on regional events that are worth reading in any language, and certainly not in English. Though we have some very good friends… »

In the amazing series of elections in South America in the last five years, the most radical results were in Bolivia, with the election of Evo Morales as President. It is not because Morales stood on the most radical platform. It was rather that, in this country in which the majority of the population are… »

TITS UP!
The Global Financial Markets.
Tits up, tits up, tits up!
The Pseudo Free Market-All-OnCredit-Capitalist Charade.
TITS UP!
Gnashing, Insatiable Metastasis of Consumer Madness.
TITS UP!
Not to belabor the point, but TITS UP!
This is how it is.
Take your choice. Tits Up, or the less prosaic, Dick in the Dirt.
Not normal tits, BIG TITS! Trillion dollar tits.
The empress has no clothes…. »

I recently read an article by Ron Jacobs entitled, A Conspiracy to Kill Iraqis?  His analysis of modern warfare and the near inevitability of civilian casualties for some reason dragged my memory back to my first year of law school, and the famous battery case, Garrett vs. Dailey, a standard included in virtually all first-year… »