The latest from the 2013 reading list: a work by a writer I have felt guilty for not having read enough of, Salman Rushdie. Rather than one of the obvious choices like Midnight’s Children or The Satanic […]
WordsDay: Enchantment might be overrated…
Ted Nugent for President?
The slippery slope of American ignorance has just been greased: Ted Nugent wants to be president. His claims to fame: He’s got seven baby-mamas who’ve given him nine kids (wonder if he’s […]
John Roberts needs to talk to Paula Deen and Aaryn Gries
Last week the Supreme Court voided the part of the Voting Right Act that singled out the south for special scrutiny, arguing that times have changed. Really? There’s a TV show called […]
Corporate contraception: the religious freedom of Hobby Lobby
How much discrimination, in the name of exercising one’s religious freedom, is acceptable? Hobby Lobby, an Oklahoma-based arts and crafts supply store with 500+ establishments across the US, along with its sister […]
Where will the new jobs come from?
Five years after the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression, we are now constantly being assured that a manufacturing revival is occurring in the United States at the moment. Or […]
Congress punts on student loan reform: we’ve made it a hassle to get a tassel
We hear constantly from politicians and candidates for office that young people are our future, and that we need to invest in our future if we want to grow our economy, and […]
Art Pope and Pat McCrory leading North Carolina into the 19th century
Back in 2008 North Carolina – the state in which I was born, raised, and lived 32 years of my life – absolutely shocked me by voting for Barack Obama over John […]
John Roberts and Jim Crow for a new millennium
The countries of the New World were, for the most part, founded on the twin crimes of racism and genocide. Europe was effectively out of land, the dominant wealth creation engine of […]
