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Bill Maher is the new Paul Krugman
This man is speaking big, and increasingly necessary, truths. E.J. Dionne articulated the political stakes...
Cancel My Subscription: An Open Letter to the Washington Post
To those too clueless to be concerned: First, let this letter serve as my formal...
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At least once per year, SPIN magazine justifies the $9.95 I pay to renew it...
There’s Something Happening Here…
What it is, is very clear.
Celebrating Robert Shaw: Quint, Killer Scene and…Killer Beer
I don’t have much to add to that picture, above. Except that I saw it,...
The Terror Card, Torture and You or, The Evil of Banality
“A perfect storm of ignorance and enthusiasm.” That quote, attributed to a former CIA official...
Song of the Day: Exhuming McCarthy
On June 9, 1954, Army counsel Joseph N. Welch confronted Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy during...
Hot Fun in the Summertime, circa 1984
The clothesline heard ’round the world Twenty-five years ago. Long enough to officially make...
Observations From The Acela Express: 127 Newark to D.C.
When I first read John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley: In Search of America I was...