I listened to an NPR essay on the way home from work today by a woman who was a 31-year-old virgin when she got married. It started me thinking about the whole subject, because I used to react to such claims with impatience and perhaps a bit of disdain. I…
Mousaui is undergoing the ritual of being sentenced by a jury. Do we kill him or warehouse him? Yesterday the defense actually presented a 9-11 affiliate (family/friend of victim/survivor) to testify on behalf of Mousaui. Personally, his insanity defense--of which Mousaui himself is vehemently opposed to--is, to my mind, beside…
Former Governor of Illinois George Ryan has been convicted on all counts of basically running a storefront out of his office. He's Republican. Not that I think Democrats don't do the same thing, and often, but the Republicans make such a big deal out of NOT being Democrats--that they are,…