Month: May 2014

White people are feeling downright ornery, lately.

“You can hear the Wall crying.” Philip Roth The Human Stain Guernica screeches, screams, and wails.  Two artistic masterpieces – “Guernica” & “The Wall” – in the pantheon...

Reports like this are as steady as the rain: Police are investigating the shooting death of a man in the Cobbs Creek section of the city. Police were called to the 100 block of 62nd Street shortly after 3 a.m. on Saturday for...

We had an old friend over for dinner tonight. He’s a regular reader of the blog and he likes to pick my brain about politics whenever we get together. It’s a good exercise because he forces me to really think about...

As we near the end of the annual rite of spring known as “The Commencement Speaker Controversy”, a ritual accompanied gigantic heaps of sanctimonious blather attacking (or defending) student protesters, university...