Month: May 2009

Not in the mood for frivolity.

Look I’m being good and sitting!  Now, let us in.We got about 15mm of rain overnight.

If you’ve been watching the Senate Intelligence Committee hearings, it has no doubt come to your attention that the Republican Senators, when they ask their questions of the various witnesses are all reading from the same...

Coming to terms with race and resolving racial disparity in America feels like an insurmountable, unfinished task, because it is unfinished. The work was started and abandoned, started and abandoned many times by generations...

It seems somehow unethical, but I’m not sure if it really is. With the Obama administration struggling with how to disposition some of the hardest cases at Guantanamo (and the Republicans being as unhelpful as possible),...