Month: December 2005

Back in high school, the best essay I ever wrote was based on a favorite book of mine, Brave New World. A world where people willingly submitted to a controlling government and society as long as their personal needs were met....

This is an old column of mine that I stumbled across while googling myself out of morbid couriosity – and since it’s almost Christmas and since I have fond memories of a wayward squab I parented named Walter the...

NYT: The National Security Agency has traced and analyzed large volumes of telephone and Internet communications flowing into and out of the United States as part of the eavesdropping program that President Bush approved after...

Crossposted at Dailykos I sat with my stuff at my feet in the waiting area by the gate at Chicago O’Hare, waiting to board a plane for the second leg of my flight home to Louisiana.  I had claimed a prime seat in the...

Here’s my favorite Christmas Carol. What’s yours? Mom got drunk and Dad got drunk At our Christmas party We were drinkin’ champagne punch And homemade eggnog Little sister brought her new boyfriend He was a...