Most of you will be relieved to know that I'm done (momentarily) with all this morose navel-gazing, and with insisting that I do not engage in morose navel-gazing. Thank you for indulging. Here is a post about a substant…
maybe you'll be president but know right from wrongThanks for all of your insightful responses to the David narrative yesterday. The story remains so compelling, I think, because it deals with so many timeless themes--in…
Which of these do you hear more often from people?"Those Mexicans ought to learn English.""Somebody ought to teach those Mexicans English.""I'm going to teach those Mexicans English."Contrary to popular myth and Republic…
This is not a picture of a two-headed turtle. This is living found art. I'm going to call it:The Two-Party System I'm sure, if this creature were self-conscious, it would be proud to be a piece of mediocre found art. Pol…
So, America vs. Iran:1. Last summer, the U.S. and Iran fought a Cold War style proxy war over Lebanon. Iran won that round. Israel obliterated the infrastructure of one of the Middle East's only progressive democracies w…
When I first heard that FoxNews was going to create a conservative version of The Colbert Report, I thought to myself: isn't that basically Bill O'Reilly? Satire itself is a tricky business because you've got to imitate …
"I trust I can rely on your vote..."1. Yesterday, Senate Republicans voted along party lines to block a non-binding resolution by Democrats that expressed disapproval of the President's war plan. In the words of that est…
Dear Mr. President:What is the sound of one (lame) duck quacking?1. First of all: thank you, genuinely, for your half-hearted stabs at magnanimity. You say it is a high privilege to be the first President to say the word…
Tonight President Bush delivers his sixth State of the Union address. This year I might watch. Last year
I didn't. You'll forgive my lack of civic responsibility. The safest
bet in American politics is that President …
Given how you know I feel about children, you'd probably think that abortion is an easy issue for me to make up my mind about. But the truth is that I don't actively hate children. I'm just painfully uncomfortable around…
