
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]