Everyone has a different reason to write. Some like stories, and can find a publisher to pay them to create. Others write briefs to persuade a court, or articles to sway a constituency, or columns to move or amuse casual readers. For some, it is an unburdening; a barely cloaked…
We've all recited: "Eye pleasure legion stew the flag, an tooda republic for ..." with maybe a glimmering of what it meant. The ideas are too complex for the school age children to parse. It is a mantra intended to imprint kids so that later they don't question the ideas…
Well, it was a dead heat. 1,442,613 vs 1,436,745 (a difference of 5,868 or 0.4%). There was a Missouri Nader vote of 17,769 that arguably made the difference. But Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida pushed the mulatto Hawaiian over the top of the elderly Panamanian by a resounding 0.1% of the…
In the dim light of the bar, it seemed like such a good idea. Things had been dull, though financially there'd been some improvement. Time to relax, maybe have a fling. The stranger sauntered over, holding a longneck, and leaned against the counter, smiled, and said "Hi. Come here often?"…
The New Yorker has just published an interview of William Ayers. It humanizes him and clears up some misconceptions. It makes me wonder why Ayers didn't speak up earlier, while he was being portrayed in a grotesque way that was pulling down the Obama campaign. Here's an excerpt: Ayers said…