A few years ago I met a guy over a cup of coffee at the café I frequent. The usual café protocols we exchanged: first names and what we…
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The political Right loves sound-bites; simple phrases don’t over-tax the limited intellectual capacities of their constituents. Their latest, a knee-jerk response to any suggestion that the American troops/targets in…
I had to get a new passport this year. The old one, with the extra pages, filled with stamps and visas that signify many wonderful memories was due to…
Only a fool would think he can defeat a concept. A fool tilting at windmills. But then, a fool, the president of the United States, is exactly what…
The guy who parked his Ninja crotch-rocket a few feet from my table at the café was offering his disquisition on 911. First of all, the Israelis were behind…
While Red Staters are played like fish, baited with promises that America will one day be run with a Christian sharia , and hooked on the fear that terrorists will soon be…
I discovered a new restaurant recently. Not much of a restaurant, really, but closer to an Asian deli. Vietnamese fast-food. They are wonderful Vietnamese fillings in freshly-baked French…
Listen for it as a Grammy winner next year, an MP3 download, and maybe as the soundtrack for a movie of the week on Fox—the cell phone tapes from passengers…
Many years ago I read a book about military technology from the crossbow to the H-Bomb. It advanced the position that, other things being equal, the guys with the…
Ever since the Athenians of the Golden Age of Greece contributed their word demos to a new system of governance, but failed to include thousands of slaves in the process, democracy has…