by Jack Carney | Jun 25, 2020 | News
Introduction: Little more than a month ago, I sent e-mails to Governor Cuomo, Health Commissioner Howard Zucker, and to my Albany representatives, Senator Jim Tedisco, 49th SD, and Assemblyman Robert Smullen, 118th AD, asking the above questions. I received...
by Jack Carney | May 20, 2020 | COVID19, News
The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of New York State NYS State Capitol Building Albany, NY 12224 Re.: COVID-related issues: COVID in NYS prisons; COVID Tracing & Confidentiality Dear Governor Cuomo: Allow me to begin by thanking you for the leadership you...
by Jack Carney | Nov 30, 2015 | Mad In America
“Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.” Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote, 1605-15 Since April, 1999, when fifteen Columbine High School students were shot and killed and...
by Jack Carney | Sep 8, 2015 | Mad In America
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. — Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor, 1978 (Editor’s note: This blog is an excerpt from Jack Carney’s book Nation of Killers: Guns, Violence, White...
by Jack Carney | Mar 17, 2014 | Mad In America
Greetings. It seems that somebody’s passing is the only thing that will stir me sufficiently to write about what’s going on in this benighted country. I had anticipated writing this a week or two ago but I got sidetracked. It’s certainly not too late, since Hoffman’s...
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