14 Articles

Sunday, August 2, 2009
Why Obama Is Driving Us All Crazy
(2 comments) Obama is reeling in the powers of the presidency by continuing Bush's overreaching.

Sunday, June 7, 2009
Oil Shale's Time Has Not Come
(2 comments) With oil rising in price again, we will soon be seeing more people agitating to access oil shale and tar sands as sources for petroleum. How will you respond to these true-believers? Here are a few lines of argument that might help.

Monday, December 22, 2008
Reflection on recent US-Iranian history
(2 comments) Is Iran worthy of trust? Where are we and how did we get here?

Sunday, October 12, 2008
Transportation for the Criminally Indifferent
(2 comments) Pile infamy upon the nonvoter. He has given up his right to live among us. If we must build a fence to separate us from the unAmerican, build that fence around him.

Saturday, September 27, 2008
The $5 Bailout
The bailout reduced to human terms.

Monday, July 28, 2008
The Closing Days of George W. Bush's Reign of Error
(3 comments) A crystal ball revealing the character of the closing of the American experience.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Whose Boozle?
(2 comments) The New Yorker cover still raises hackles, and that's a good thing.

Friday, July 18, 2008
When the Leaving Is Good
(2 comments) 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