Raised Relief
‘Things will be great when you’re Down-ton’
If I’m diligent and steadfast in my work today, I will reward myself with a guilt-free hour of public television this evening.
Stop Calling Me Surly
Clean up this meth!
Our wayward war on drugs finally taught us that education, regulation and rehab save lives and money.
Fables of the Deconstruction
Let X = X
One of my friends is very practical. He (or she) bristles whenever somebody says (or, more accurately, repeats that ubiquitous cliché), “It is what it is.”
Summary of My Discontent
Fairy tales for today’s tots
One of the great joys in life is to read to a young child. If you are the parent, grandparent or friend of a tiny tot, the classic fairy tales are a perpetual source of fun and enjoyment.
Stop Calling Me Surly
Crit, Democratic women emerge
At a Saturday evening party of the party faithful, lawmakers, labor, lobbyists and a few retired journalists converged on the Henry Clay to praise Democrat Crit Luallen and to bury the shards of th
Fables of the Deconstruction
To go home
A while back, I heard a song that I wanted to tell you about.
Keeping Up with the Jones
The only just and effective response to hazing
Hazing has been in the national spotlight again lately since Florida A&M University (FAMU) drum major Robert Champion was beaten to death on a band bus after a football game in late November.
Summary of My Discontent
The voting booth: democracy’s parking meter
On a recent jaunt about town, my son and I had occasion to use one of our city’s quaint, retro parking meters.
Raised Relief
I said, ‘Hey, what is going on?’
I may never fully recover from the psychic trauma visited on me by the insufferably zany be-dreadlocked band 4-Non-Blondes and their all-too-memorable charting single “What’s Up?”
Stop Calling Me Surly
Thinking of Abramoff
If Mitch McConnell is the mother of all madams in the whorehouse that is Congress, Jack Abramoff was the godfather among lobbyists.
