7 Articles

Friday, July 18, 2008
When the Leaving Is Good
A republican invited to participate in the system is a hijacker engaged in coopting the system. I have little hope for a coalition government.

Saturday, May 31, 2008
Ark Hive
An appreciation for those scurrying to find room in the stacks for additional stacks of stacks.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Why I Am a Liberal (for Eric Alterman)
It's difficult to think of another way to be, if one is religious or if one is rational. I've enumerated these endlessly in chatrooms, but never in paragraph form.

Friday, May 9, 2008
Agonistic Breathing

Sunday, April 27, 2008
Inverted Lapel Pins As Distress Signal
(4 comments) One day a person from Code Pink sent me an email suggesting that we should wear flag lapel pins upside down to symbolize the peril that our country is in. That set into motion the following brief essay: One day we will all live in pits under the ground, the whine of prairie winds will be an alien sound as we go about our subterranean tunnels. When we die, they will leave our bodies aboveground and tell frightening stories

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Ralph's Nadir
(6 comments) What troubles me about Ralph Nader's argument that he had no effect on the 2000 and 2004 elections is that if an industry spokesman presented to Nader arguments as thin as the ones he uses to justify his presence in the race, he would shred those arguments to molecules.

Saturday, December 8, 2007
Why Are the Media So Irresponsible?
(4 comments) Stop Tolerating the Foxification of Main Stream Media