Month: March 2008

My wife, Muriel Boothman, died of cancer four years ago today.  I’ve been asked to do a talk on bereavement by the local hospice foundation who are organising an annual remembrance evening for those who have lost...

Can someone send a pony to the Clintons?

Hillary Clinton has gone too far. In a conversation with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Clinton presumed to tell Barack Obama where he should worship his God. She suggested that Reverend Wright is guilty of ‘hate...

Maybe someone can find some study somewhere that can back up or disprove my theory. It seems to me that there is a particular regional component to racism in this country’s politics. By this, I do not mean that only people...

Cross-posted at Daily Kos and Open Left. What’s wrong with New Jersey? The state passed a law requiring voter-verifiable paper records in July of 2005. Now, unless Governor Corzine vetoes legislation passed last week, the...