Month: March 2012

In 1973, some friends and I went to the rooftop of our apartment building to watch Comet Kahoutek, touted by astronomers and the media as the comet of all comets. We were sure we’d see it since we had the requisite...

There are currently 17 women in the 100 member U.S. Senate despite the fact that women make up slightly more than 50% of the population and slightly more than 50% of the electorate. Two of those women, Olympia Snowe of Maine and...

. Obama’s stance throughout the Jeffrey Goldberg interview in The Atlantic: “Re-elect me, I can be as tough on Iran as our mutual friend Israel. No need to think of electing an Neocon Republican. Look at me!”...

If you haven’t had enough from Rush Limbaugh and all the other haters this week, look what popped up on Twitter this afternoon: (No, it’s not a fake.) Yes, I understand: no one will ask Romney whether it was...

Some apologies are harder to accept than others.