Month: December 2012

It is a sure sign of having too much time on your hands when you start writings Letters to the Editor on the subject of sport. Perhaps it is that the horrific shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown or the...

Watch this speech and then tell me that we can’t do anything: This isn’t good enough anymore.

I was very moved by the president’s speech in Newtown, Connecticut tonight. I’d like to post a video of the speech in its entirety once it is available. I agree with him. We can’t say that the loss of our...

I am continually astounded by Barack Obama. Is he the world’s greatest political actor? A totally blind America-firster? The canniest and most in control of his emotions U.S. politician since FDR or Abraham Lincoln?...

I found Liza Long’s plea troubling less for the seriousness of her difficulties than for her willingness to preemptively classify her son as a potential mass murderer. Maybe he is, but most likely he isn’t. And he...