Month: November 2011

Tom Wicker died today. Unless you are of a certain age, you probably don’t know who he was. His coverage of the JFK assassination earned him the respect and admiration of a lot of people. One of the things he reported...

This is about as important as anecdotal journalism can get. Yeah, it’s long. Read it.

The drug war in Mexico seems like something out of Bosnia-Herzegovina. When we have gang fights here, one or two people get killed. In Mexico, it’s more like two or three dozen people get killed. We have a couple of...

Just shoot me. There’s no point in continuing on. Mr. Romney’s head of impeccably coiffed black hair has become something of a cosmetological Rorschach test on the campaign trail, with many seeing in his thick locks...

This article has it all. Imagine you are in a Wal*Mart on Thanksgiving. It’s 9:55 pm, and the store is set to reduce prices dramatically at ten. There’s a pallet on the floor in the video game section, covered in...