Year: 2016

I like hot sauce but I don’t carry it with me. I do have a friend whose mother always carries a small sandwich bag filled with chiles, however, and that seems sensible.

I’ve finally come around, after seeing so many diaries on Daily Kos extolling her deserving qualities and virtues, to realizing that Hillary Clinton really is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being...

I was just shy of five years old when Richard Nixon resigned. There were some interesting political events when I was coming of age (Reagan was almost assassinated when I was in sixth grade, for example, and Al Haig told us all...

I mostly liked Jamelle Bouie’s article on Bernie Sanders and his campaign or “movement” or whatever you want to label it. The piece is largely accurate, and it’s realistic and filled with solid advice for...

On April 14th I posted a story (which I have now deleted) that stated the voting hours for many people living in New York state had been “cut by six hours” if they lived in a county outside NYC, its suburbs and Erie...