Month: October 2013

A little after 1:00 this morning I lost my mom. I’d really lost her months earlier to Alzheimer’s; her body just caught up this morning. She was a writer who never had the confidence to submit anything for...

Me, on September 13th: It looks increasingly like the House Republicans are on a suicide mission. It’s like they are hell-bent on making an amphibious landing on some beachhead against entrenched machine gun nests and...

I know some people can’t take my advice and just do their laundry or something while John Boehner slowly dies, but you really would be better off. This ain’t pretty.

Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan delivered his 2014 budget to the Dail today – about 2 months earlier than usual to give the European Commission more time to review and approve its provisions. Taoiseach Enda Kenny had...

I just received a scanned article in .pdf form from one of my uncles. It is, in large part, about my paternal grandfather, Lester Longman. My understanding is that it is not particularly flattering, but I have not read it, yet....