Month: January 2006

Much has already been written about President Bush’s 17 recess appointments announced on Thursday, many of them extremely controversial. It’s an old trick meant to get around those pesky Senate confirmation hearings....

Mary Butler, the lead prosecutor in the Abramoff scandal, is an elusive presence Google-land… While Patrick Fitzgerald, of course has been amply covered, Butler has been virtually ignored.   But after a rigorous...

It Can’t Happen Here Sinclair Lewis (1935) From 70 years ago:  Dark and not so humorous tale of a fascist takeover in the US.  It starts with the highly contested election of an oafish yet strangely charismatic...

My schedule was all off yesterday and between one thing and three little others I forgot to post this here. Sometimes I don’t cross post because I don’t think it’s really good. But this time, although you might...

Religion has always had a close relationship with writing technology.  The first thing Guttenberg printed was the Bible and the first thing printed by the Chinese was religious charms to ward off spirits. But today we tend...