A Dog Starv'd

Fundamentals first: be liberal because you already -- irreversibly, fundamentally, biologically -- are liberal. What happens at the cellu...

The biggest long-term problem with the events of September 11, 2001, it turns out, wasn't the shock to the American psyche. It wasn'...

...also Magna Carta Day. From today's issue of The Writer's Almanac : On this day in 1215, King John of England put his seal to the ...

Hillary's time may have come and gone, although she and her spokespeople deny it by the minute. Various pundits (per the NY Times ) are ...

Let's talk about stupidity -- political stupidity. Maybe "stupidity" is too harsh a word. I certainly don't mean the charm...

"Eve of Destruction," says Wikipedia , is a grave warning of imminent apocalypse, and considered by some to be the epitome of a p...

Took a break from writing here for a few months, obviously, but for the best of reasons: to write elsewhere. Lord knows, I haven't stopp...