This site is devoted to offering a critical look at the quality of our daily news, primarily the print media, here in the "liberal" Northeast. If you would like to receive an e-mail version of "The Daily Grasshopper," please e-mail Patrick Keaney and put "SUBSCRIBE" in the subject line of the e-mail.
This project started out as a daily essay that I would write to friends and family after the beginning of the year. It is geared toward people whose busy lives often prevent them from taking enough time to read and digest the daily news. The idea is to get people thinking about who shapes opinions in this country, and what motives inspire their work. My New Year's Resolution was to write more, and there's certainly no shortage of things to be writing about these days. I hope you don't mind the informal tone of the messages - many are written from the heart, and in the heat of the moment. I'll try to maintain my pace of one a day, and hope people find it useful. Feedback is always welcome.
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Jan. 3: They're Lying To Us Again
Jan. 4: The Chickenhawk in Chief
Jan. 5: Thomas Friedman Says: War for Oil OK
Jan. 6: Terror in Tel Aviv
Jan. 7: To Our Nation's Health
Jan. 8: Who's a Wh*re?
Jan. 9: Bush: Judge, Jury, Executioner?
Jan. 10: It's Not "Welfare," It's "Financial Assistance"
Jan. 11: Guns or Butter? It's Time to Decide
Jan. 12: Grudge Match: U.S. vs. Iran
Jan. 13: Striking Out in Caracas
Jan. 14: Neutron Jack's Back - in Class
Jan. 15: Air(wave) Wars in the Middle East
Jan. 16: Things You Gotta Watch
Jan. 17: The "Liberal" Media?
Jan. 18: Check out C-SPAN Before You Decide...
Jan. 19: Dresden, Guernica, and "Friendly Fire"
Jan. 20: MLK and the "Revolution of Values"
Jan. 21: Big Three Cash In On the (Sorry) State of the Union
Jan. 22: For Veterans, Homelessness is Hell
Jan. 23: "Made in U.S.A."? More Like "Charade in U.S.A."
Jan. 24: George F. Will Won't Face Facts
Jan. 25: Time to Prepare For the Big Lie
Jan. 26: U.S. WMD? The Dirt on DU
Jan. 27: Talking Turkey
Jan. 28: Hybrids Launch Gas Attack
Jan. 29: Anyone Else Doubt Bush's "Sincerity"?
Jan. 30: Regime Change in Chile: What Every U.S. Citizen Should Know
Jan. 31: "Power and Terror" and the Marginalization of a Great Thinker
Feb. 1:
Bill O'Reilly and the McCarthy Factor
Feb. 5:
An Arresting Development
Feb. 6:
Washington and Wall Street Want War
Feb. 7:
Rescuing History, and Ourselves
Feb. 8:
Things You Gotta Watch II
Feb. 9:
Not "Set to Rumble" Yet?
Feb. 10:
Want to Oppose War? It's Going to Cost You
Feb. 11: It's About the Oil - For France and Russia, Too
Feb. 12: What the Irish Owe
Feb. 13: An Apologist for Empire in the New York Times
Feb. 17: More Betrayals to Come?
Feb. 18: A Lot Like Chess, Only Bloodier
Feb. 19: Whose Iraq?
Feb. 20: Right Wingers Use Iraqis as "Ideological Shields"
Feb. 22: The Method to the Madness
Feb. 23: The Chaos to Come?
Feb. 24: Creating a Crisis, Then Fixing It
Feb. 25: Times Sees "Graft" in Guatemala, But Not Genocide
Feb. 26: "Black Clandestines" and Black Gold
Feb. 27: Liars and Dreamers
Mar. 1: Things You Gotta Watch III
Mar. 2: Ottoman Umpire: "YERRR OUT!!" (Pending Review, Of Course)
Mar. 3: Talking Turkey, Take Two
Mar. 4: The Inscrutable Jerks
Mar. 5: "What's Going On"
Mar. 6: The "Liberal" Boston Globe Covers Up U.S. Crimes
Mar. 8: I Want More Women
Mar. 9: A Forum for the Free Expression of Ideas?
Mar. 10: Things You Gotta Watch IV
Mar. 11: "Planning for the Next American Conquests" (PNAC)
Mar. 12: Doing The Numbers
Mar. 14: A Terrorist With a Typewriter?
Mar. 16: Pump-Faking the Palestinians (Again)
Mar. 18: Ignoring U.S. "Ulterior Motives"
Mar. 20: Globalizing the Rule of the Jungle?
Mar. 22: "There's Things Goin' On That You Don't Know"
Mar. 23: The Times Plays Catch Up With the Warmongers
Mar. 24: Laughing While Life Goes On?
Mar. 24: The Open Veins of Bolivia
Mar. 25: Farces and Tragedies
Mar. 26: Duct Tape and Daggers Drawn
Mar. 27: Rules? What Rules?
Mar. 30: Things You Gotta Watch V
Mar. 31: "The Disastrous Rise of Misplaced Power"
Apr. 1: What's Not News Today
Apr. 2: Structural Adjustment and the Quagmire
Apr. 3: "War Ain't Nothin' But a Heartbreaker"
Apr. 6: Rackets and "Rotten Doors"
Apr. 7: The Price of Progress
Apr. 8: Unfriendly Fire
Apr. 9: The Sword vs. The Pen
Apr. 10: You call THAT "Looting"?
Apr. 11: CNN—Censorship News Network
Apr. 16: UN Vote on Israel Ignored by "Skeptical" Media
Apr. 17: Hard Proof of a Double Standard
Apr. 20: Imperial–Minded Intelligentsia
Apr. 21-24: Is Someone Spoonfeeding the Times?
Apr. 27: A Farrago of Ferguson
May 1: Is It Fascism Yet?
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