Month: January 2010

I haven’t been writing about health care reform since the Martha Coakley fiasco for three reasons. Number one is that our wonderful new son is taking both real and psychic energy away that I ordinarily use to write. I have...

. Watchdog: Bailouts Created More Risk in System (ABC News) – The government’s response to the financial meltdown has made it more likely the United States will face a deeper crisis in the future, an independent...

I don’t live in Nevada so I don’t know precisely why the elecorate there is so sour on Harry Reid that they say they’ll vote for virtually anyone other than him. I do know that some recent polling showed that...

Franklin Roosevelt was able to connect with ordinary American people during the Depression despite coming from an immensely wealthy family (and a family that had been in the White House before) because he knew that all good...

So gotterdemerung wrote a mildly snarky piece titled Caption This on Wild Wild Left featuring a pic of Barack Obama goofing with a black guy on a street somewhere in mixed-race America. A piece which received several equally...