The press is all on Bachman-Perry Overdrive(as my daughter MA put it) right now, but according to this post, the Perry part of this obsession has some…
A Standard & Poor's director said for the first time Thursday that one reason the United States lost its triple-A credit rating was that several lawma…
From Ta-Nehisi Coates comes this: This is what I meant by nostalgia as a species of laziness: At a New York political event last week, Republican and …
We are here for what amounts to a few hours, a day at most. We feel around making sense of the terrain, our own new limbs, Bumping up against a herd o…
My brother Ted recently read this poem to our 85 year old mother and he reported that "when I was done she had tears in her eyes." I can see why. Abso…
From Jonathan Rauch, comes this... I like the tone of the President's press conference on the debt-limit negotiations. It had the right mixture of adm…
Admittedly, I haven't watched many of Conan O'Brien's shows but I still admire him as a talented comedian and a guy that's very inventive in his craft…
1. MaryAnn is a great driver and doesn't need any help from me putting on the passenger side imaginary brakes or adding sounds from me to the sights i…
From Andrew Sullivan, comes this... There have been many times over the past two years when I have whacked the Obama administration on their "fierce u…
