Month: July 2009

The recent passing of Robert McNamara provides us with a critical opportunity to reflect on redemption, one of our most deeply held values.  As an architect of the Vietnam War, McNamara is inextricably linked to one of the...

I don’t know the current state of the law, but most people who get their medical care through a government run program are either too old or too young to be of reproductive age. I’m guessing that’s why you...

A temporary loss of possession of the remote control resulted in me being subjected to Brook Shields’ speech at the Michael Jackson memorial. I can safely say that a tape of that can be used to coerce false confessions in...

I watched Al Franken get sworn in as a newly minted U.S. Senator from Minnesota by Vice-President Joe Biden. He was accompanied by Walter Mondale and Amy Klobuchar. After he was sworn in, the Senate stood and applauded for a...

Someone once told me that heaven and hell exist here on Earth, and we experience them while we’re living. I wonder if John McCain feels that way? I wonder if he is simmering in hell everytime Sarah Palin opens her...