Author: Madman in the Marketplace

Sometimes, as you go through your day, maybe bouncing from link to link on the ‘net, you’ll stumble across something unexpected. A picture or profile or book review — something that reminds you of something you...

… the Destroyer of Worlds.” It’s oft repeated, that recitation by J. Robert Oppenheimer of a misquotation from the Bhagavad Gita. At the end of the second World War, he may very well have been describing the...

Emily’s List released an important report this past week, Women at the Center of Political Change (opens as a .pdf): “There is a clear message from the women we spoke to: never stand between a woman and her desire to...

When I was very young, probably around ten or twelve, I first saw Billy Jack, a couple of years after it had first come out. Jean : You just can’t keep making your own laws. There’s got to be one set of laws fair for...

The “center-right” of the party has, over the last several years, presented the Democratic Party and voters on the left with a stark either/or choice: either the party move in “their” direction on...