After this year’s presidential election I emailed my sister, a smart, super-competent, true-blue, bleeding-heart, save the weeds and snails liberal, who volunteered to do campaign work for Hilary Clinton in Colorado during the 2008 Democratic primaries and, of course, voted loudly for Obama in this last election. “Are you kidding me?” I asked. “How can
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The Book Political TV ads can be fun. And annoying. Debates can be fun. And maddening. You can indeed learn things about the candidates from watching the ads and debates. But fifteen and thirty second snippets of information really don’t give you the full picture. And sometimes they actually hide the facts, producing nothing more
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New Revelations About America A common idea taught about the Indians (and, yes, it appears when you can’t simply refer to their tribe, most prefer that term to “American Indian,” especially those in South and Central America) is that they lived in such harmony with the land, that they trod so lightly upon it, that
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The Amazing Spider-man The Amazing Spider-man is one of the most enjoyable superhero movies I’ve seen in the last ten, heck, fifteen years. It rocks. Is it as good as any in Christopher Nolan’s Batman series? Yes, but it never becomes dark. And in many ways I think it might be better. How about Iron
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No, really. It’s true. You just have to spend smartly. And in a special way. Over the course of your life, if you make what the average American does, more than a million dollars will flow through your hands. And yet so many of us don’t feel rich. That’s because money is like the Gingerbread
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