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Articles Written by: HARRY SHEARER
Who is This?
Harry Julius Shearer (born December 23, 1943) is an American comedic actor and writer. Shearer, a voice actor on The Simpsons (1989 to present), provides the voices of Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders, Reverend Timothy Lovejoy, Kent Brockman, Dr. Julius Hibbert, Dr. Marvin Monroe, Lenny Leonard, Principal Seymour Skinner, Otto Mann and Rainier Wolfcastle among others.
Of course, Republicans defended George W. Bush and blamed state and local officials when independent investigations (here and here) pointed to the US Army Corps of Engineers' culpability for the 2005 flooding of New Orleans. Now Democrats are doing ...
From HARRY SHEARER,
Huffington Post,
24 Nov 2009
When Ruth Seymour announced earlier this week her retirement as general manager of Santa Monica's pioneering public-radio station, KCRW, it really did mark the end of an era. Ruth basically founded the modern KCRW, and set the template for much of ...
From HARRY SHEARER,
Huffington Post,
19 Nov 2009
One of the plaintiffs' co-lead attorneys, Pierce O'Donnell of Los Angeles voiced the hope for change:
"We're hoping the new administration and the new Congress will view this decision in a new light," O'Donnell said. "This decision should act as a ...
From HARRY SHEARER,
Huffington Post,
19 Nov 2009
"It's scary," says Tom Jackson, a regional levee commissioner and engineer of the admission by the Army Corps of Engineers that a section of lakefront levee in East Kenner (a western suburb of New Orleans) is contaminated with construction waste, and ...
From HARRY SHEARER,
Huffington Post,
17 Nov 2009
When the Fox network staged a special Veterans' Day version of its NFL pre-game show at Bagram AF Base last Sunday, two hours was apparently not long enough to mention one interesting fact about Bagram: It's the site of America's other Gitmo, a prison ...
From HARRY SHEARER,
Huffington Post,
13 Nov 2009
Who was it who said that once you see how laws and sausages are made you lose your appetite for both? As the US public service cable channel C-SPAN shows us the pigmeat stuffed into the legislative casing of the House of Representatives' health-care ...
From HARRY SHEARER,
New Statesman,
12 Nov 2009
Following up Matthew Hoh's resignation letter of a couple weeks ago comes this missive from William Polk who, like Hoh, finds the only prudent course of action regarding Afghanistan to be a timely removal of foreign (i.e., US and NATO) troops. If you ...
From HARRY SHEARER,
Huffington Post,
11 Nov 2009
One of the questions New Orleanians have heard most often from outsiders since the 2005 flood is, "why didn't you all have flood insurance?" The answer bewilders those outsiders: Mortgage holders told homeowners, you're living inside a federal levee ...
From HARRY SHEARER,
Huffington Post,
6 Nov 2009
For anyone who wonders why New Orleanians worry about what the Corps of Engineers is doing in the "rebuilding" of the levee-floodwall system -- now renamed the Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System -- AP's Cain Burdeau gets the money quote ...
From HARRY SHEARER,
Huffington Post,
4 Nov 2009
It was maybe March of this year that I first said to someone who asked what I thought of the then-new President that he was in the process of making two major, perhaps historic, mistakes: pretending that Afghanistan had patiently waited for seven years ...
From HARRY SHEARER,
Huffington Post,
3 Nov 2009
