It's the holidays — get over it
With October come and gone, it is, as far as I’m concerned, the holiday season. Or “the holidays.” There are lots of holidays coming up. Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah,…
Mobility needed for upward mobility
Let’s go to Delaware Park for the day, shall we? I wonder what the best way is to get there. Let me cruise over to map.google.com and make myself a…
Budget deal nothing to get excited about
As much as I want to herald the dawn of a new spirit of cooperation in the budget/debt limit deal that Congress approved Wednesday night, I can’t help but feel…
It's time to ask the right question about healthcare
Lost in all the political bickering over universal healthcare the past 20 years — from Hillarycare to Romneycare to Obamacare — is the most basic question of all concerning healthcare.…
The whole country’s gone crazy
Former New York Yankees player and manager Yogi Berra was a magician with words. Some of his quotes are downright legendary. “Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half…
GOP denial of science is frightening
About 5,000 years ago there was a great Egyptian empire. They created some really cool things. They used pulleys and levers to create massive buildings and monuments. They used rope…
Looney GOP keeps playing same Tunes
Shouldn’t there have been a point at which Wyle E. Coyote — super genius — realized that maybe he wasn’t actually that bright and was never going to catch and…
Some things should just be avoided
I have no idea what’s going on in Syria. I’m not sure what’s going to end up happening. But I know that the whole ordeal bugs me. I know that…
I should have avoided Facebook
The only thing worse than the sunny-day patriotism on my Facebook and Twitter feeds is the open use of a national tragedy to score political points. How dare some people…