Dear Bill, how’s does it feel to have been the butt of a joke for nine years? FOX News big mouth and bigger ego, Bill O’Reilly, likes to write (well…
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Where do you begin when the injustice and hypocrisy of America is so blatant that you want to puke? What’s new or original to be said about a country that…
Preamble: Michael Tomasky recently wrote that “Republicans profit from Americans’ childish hatred of government – and Democrats lose every time by staying silent. [Democrats] need to follow Chuck Schumer’s example…
Where do you begin when the injustice and hypocrisy of America is so blatant that you want to puke? What’s new or original to be said about a country that…
[No. 44. 7: Revised and Expanded] Recently, my cousin sent to me a link to a website that had been sent to her by a friend who, in recommending it’s…
Making a case for a politically independent Hong Kong might seem, at first blush, to contradict geography, ethnicity, and culture—although it is the last of these, that is not determined…
For an urbanist such as myself the prospect of observing, in 1997, the “handover” of sovereignty of a major world city from one country to another was an unusual opportunity. …
In just a little over two years we will be choosing a new president and, since this is America, we have already begun the campaign process. I am not announcing…
Watching the snarling denizens (I try to avoid the word citizen) of Murietta, California, embarrass my state and my country before the world with their hypocritical Americanism and twisted Christianity…
I have been building this essay over the past couple of months, returning to it at various points in the recent political cycle. I suppose that before I lose sight…