In that I was teaching all day yesterday, education’s on my mind. So while the presidential...
Depends on What You Mean by “Preserve”
Today appears to be the morning for focusing (again) on the Bush adminstration’s belief that...
George Bush and the Whales
In one more instance of unilateral I-am-the-decider-ism in which George W. Bush knows better than...
Bill Bratton – Past and Future
Joe Domanick has a smart, insightful, authoritative, and wonderfully gossipy story on LAPD Chief...
Cops, Sanity and Money
THE GOOD NEWS: Today the Los Angeles City Council voted 13 to 0 to reopen the discussion as to...
Mike Carona: “He Shot the Sheriff”
To further bastardize the words of the great Bob Marley, “And he also shot his deputy..(Oh...
Hoping Not to Get Snowed In….
Theoretically, I’m flying out of Vermont today via the Albany airport, and keeping my fingers...
Finding Relief
Brand new and very smart writer (and USC graduate student), Matt Mundy has written a strong piece...
Schwarzenegger, Topanga and the 10-Percent Solution
I’ve just gotten a slew of emails from my neighbors telling me that if Arnold Schwarzenegger...
Taking a Day Off….
I’m taking the day off from blogging to just to pay more attention to what I’m doing...
The Supremes & How We Vote
And while we’re on the subject of voting, should you have to show a photo ID in order to be...
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...
Pakistan: Fatima Bhutto’s Name Comes Up
(Fatima Bhutto in Tehran) It was inevitable that her name should eventually come up. Now that...
Heartbreaker
Blogger Andrew Olmsted, an army major who for years blogged eloquently from Iraq, was killed on...
The New Hampshire Dem Debate – Who won?
Still no TVs that any of us can find at Bennington (in all seriousness) but fortunately I’m...