On ‘The Fall’ and That Obama Video
Yes, yes. I know the election is over and, as a third-party voter myself, I don’t believe I’ll smell like sour grapes here regarding...
I’ll Take My Economy Black, Please
I woke up early last Friday morning, still in a slump from my post-Thanksgiving food-coma. Not too keen on the idea of braving an...
Conservative Wisdom from an Original Radical
Last Friday, Tom Hayden, co-founder of the Students for a Democratic Society, principal author of 1962's Port Huron Statement (or, if you Big Lebowski...
The Culture of Guns? What About the Culture of Narcissism?
It is predictably American for Americans to obsess over an object used to perpetuate a crime, rather than examine the perpetrator and consider the...
Of “That Great Furnace, the Heart of Dickens”
A perennial question in this season: which version of Dickens’ Christmas Carol to watch?
Somehow I can’t seem to muster much interest in any of...
The Pickup Truck and the Tommy Gun
During the Republican primary, Newt Gingrich joked that “you can’t put a gun rack on Volt.” Newt was, of course, trying to identify...
Where Will You Die?
Hidden Spring Lane. “I plan on dying here.” The words came quite unbidden and surprised me. We were in the process of building a...
The Twenty Seven
Marbledale, Ct. I was travelling back from a meeting in the Hudson Valley when the news of the Newtown Rampage reached me. The shell-shocked radio...
It’s the Rights Culture, not the Gun Culture
As President Obama contemplates the political obstacles looming before the gun control agenda he announced on Wednesday, he might look closer to home for...
The March for Life, Poetry, and ‘Epimethean Men’
“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.” --Wallace Stevens
January 25, the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, will mark the fifth time...