So now the guy who deserves an executive producer credit for those wonderful photos from Abu Ghraib will likely rise to the chair of Attorney General, or should we make…
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Despite the tenor of several recent essays it is not my intention to morph Dragon City Journal into a backdoor journal of moral philosophy. But it seems appropriate, in…
I can’t help but think of Steve Lumb every time I hear or read the word “Euro”. Steve had the worst case of FECS (Foreign Exchange Conversion Stress) I…
Whatever happened to all that stuff that Jesus used to utter about “blessed are the poor in spirit” (Matthew 5:1-3 for you literalists)? To heck with “spirit,” whatever he…
Americans Abroad, No. 1 “Meestah, meestah, lady fall, . . . lady fall down! Lady not get up!” Just what I didn’t want to hear from the…
I wrote earlier this month (15.3) that what the right wing calls the “heartland” of America, really isn’t the heartland. And, at least in terms of security, the type…
Here we go again. From Acquinas, to the Scopes monkey trial, to creationism to the latest Right Wing Trojan Horse from the people who brought you “partial birth abortion.”…
Given the shelf life of American popular culture it’s unfashionable to discuss a movie after it has been released into DVD, but I just got my first look beyond a…
In the post election mortem there has emerged a lot of the stuff that falls out of the back ends of bulls about the “heartland” of America. The reference—and…
Is it possible that luggage can have feelings? At least one suitcase does; one that has accumulated some “psychological baggage” along with a lot of dents, scrapes and frequent…