Go Ahead, Hang A Shining Star Upon The Highest Bough And...You Know
I pose a question, one that bestirs itself to haunt me in a tuneful way each Christmas, and so I ...

To Obama's Critics on the left, yes, this is change
Take this headline: “Barack Obama Rounds Up the Usual Suspects.” The article’s a rant by Alexander Cockburn who’s especially critical ...

Just How Blessed Am I Anyhow?
The Sunday following Thanksgiving 2005, I gave a talk “On Moonwalkers and Tree Huggers” at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist ...

Obama Wins! And Nothing You Can Say Quite Nails It
An e-mail at 2:38 a.m. put it this way:WHOOWHOOOEEEEE~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!And I answered, “Yeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooooooooo!”The election of ...

On False Idols And Feedback Loops of Doom
Stone faces of Easter Island gaze on as anthropologists, mythologists and space cadets debate their meaning. Measuring up to 28 ...

On Obama and the Fears We Dare Not Name, Revisited
Shortly after Barack Obama’s victory in the Iowa caucuses, I wrote a piece called, “On Obama and Fears We Dare ...

Ah, Look at the Golden Parachute as Bush Socializes the Losses
Everybody sing along.“We’re all socialists now,We’re all socialists now.Dubya’s nationalized the economy,We’re all socialists now.”