I’m catching up on weird housekeeping tasks like….um….putting away the last of...
Elections ’08
Bill Bratton – Past and Future
Joe Domanick has a smart, insightful, authoritative, and wonderfully gossipy story on LAPD Chief...
The Desire to Matter
The above photo of New Hampshire-ites lining up to vote can’t help but be a cheering one, no...
Barack Obama and “the Feast of Language”
(Thomas Lynch, poet, undertaker, Obama fan) RANDOM NOTES FROM BENNINGTON, VT I just this minute...
As We Wait for New Hampshire…..
(We made a short pilgrimage to see Robert Frost’s grave yesterday, and here’s the photo...
A Brief Obama Note From Vermont
Admittedly this is a progressive enclave, but for whatever it’s worth, after Obama’s...