Politics

  • Wow.

    So what would you take if someone told you you had to leave your home immediately? I can’t imagine. Here’s what’s been happening a few blocks from our house this morning. Within an hour, this landslide went from a few… Continue reading

  • Edsels, Nexters, and Whining Reporters

    I know this constitutes the second politically based commentary I’ve made in a single day, but in the spirit of ranting about “the other side,” I thought, what the hell. So finally Fred Thompson has officially declared his candidacy for… Continue reading

  • Dear Friend…

    Do you ever look at your junk mail? No, not in your email — your snail mail. You know, the kind that comes from all those trees. Yes, that junk mail. Well. In my junk snail mail, I received a… Continue reading

  • Whining in the Men’s Room

    A few days ago, our local paper ran Ellen Goodman’s piece on “The male-dominated blogosphere” where she spent three columns questioning why the “forceful, sometimes demagogic, message-monger organizing tool for the progressive end of the Democratic Party” has “chief messengers… Continue reading