Month: June 2007

Yuppie Coffee on the Maine Turnpike

The icons I grew up with are disappearing along with the American middle class family.  The amusements of Salisbury Beach are gone.  The carouselle, the roller coaster and the bumper cars and the water slide are gone....

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Senate 2008 Forecast

Let’s say that there is a very well-financed Bloomberg-Hagel ticket. And let’s say that there’s a Obama-Richardson ticket. And let’s say, I don’t know, there’s a Thompson-Romney ticket....

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Senate 2008 Forecast

Let’s say that there is a very well-financed Bloomberg-Hagel ticket. And let’s say that there’s a Obama-Richardson ticket. And let’s say, I don’t know, there’s a Thompson-Romney ticket....

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My Non-Political News This Weekend

Today is my son’s graduation day from high school. Just a short while ago it seems I was holding him in my arms as a newborn, showing him to his mother, all red and white and bundled up in hospital blankets, the proud...

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A Little Bit of Inference

The White House has finally gotten their story straight about why Dick Cheney doesn’t have to submit to inspection by the National Archive’s Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO). But is has nothing to do with...

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