What Is Wrong With Dandelions, Anyway?
2016-05-08 – This is my favorite time of year. Leaves have sprouted on the trees, but they are not full yet so you can still see through the branches to […]
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The Democratic Party Needs to Be the Party of Working Americans
2016-05-05 – Andrew Sullivan has a disturbing article in New York magazine entitled “Democracies End When They Are Too Democratic—And Right Now, America Is a Breeding Ground for Tyranny.” In […]
Election Lottery
2016-05-03 – So tonight, both Hillary and The Donald will inch their way another step toward clinching their parties’ nominations. It could be over in both cases or it could […]
Tut-Tut the Trump
2016-05-01 – So now the pundits are saying they never thought for a million years that Donald Trump could get as far as he has (while they have been not-so-covertly […]
Suggest-a-Veep Matchup
2016-04-27 – Now that Ted Cruz has announced that Carly Fiorina is his choice for Vice President, I wonder if any other former candidates will follow suit. Anyone willing to […]
Organized Capital vs. Organized Labor
2016-04-26 – Have you ever given any thought to why the right for workers to organize a union is controversial but the right of investors to form a corporation is […]
Right Without Left Is Like a Magnetic Monopole
2016-04-24 – Yin and yang. People like to talk about how opposite forces are actually complementary to another . . . but not in politics. The noisiest of us like […]
Tubman on the Twenty—Not In Time for Passover
2016-04-21 – Apparently Harriet Tubman will be on the twenty instead of Andrew Jackson. I like that. If I had one of those Tubman twenties today, I’d give it at […]
Why All the Complaint About Taxes—And Nothing Else?
2016-19-2016 – Now that tax day is past, I have to ask you: wasn’t that the worst? What could be worse than paying taxes? Other than your mortgage. Or your […]
Everything You Want Is on the Other Side of Fear
2016-04-17 – My wife Kit has a coffee mug with the following saying printed on the side: Everything you want is on the other side of fear. Coffee mug adages […]
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