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5 months ago
Now that Hillary Clinton has more or less officially lost the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama, everyone wants to give their two bits about where she went wrong and he went right. What interests me, though, is how little attention, comparatively speaking, has been paid to the role that their ...
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8 months ago
After a series of mishaps Friday morning I suddenly had the urge to
compensate for my frustration. Stopping for a coffee and scone was
already on my agenda, but I wanted more. Near Raging Sage, my favorite
café here in Tucson, is a store called R-Galaxy that specializes in anime, manga, ...
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8 months ago
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9 months ago
In the weeks leading up to yesterday’s Russian elections, the
media was full of stories reflecting on Vladimir Putin’s years
President. Whether focusing on the inner sanctum of the Kremlin or
influence on Russian’s hinterlands, these reports
underscored ...
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9 months ago
Yesterday, when I went to pick my nine-year-old daughter up from
school, she was hanging out in the classroom of her favorite teacher,
whom she had last year and the year before. We noticed that one of the
walls was covered with the self-portrait masks the teacher's current
students had made, ...
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9 months ago
An underdog Democratic politician demonstrates the danger in presuming that the party's nominee for President is a done deal. Despite beginning with many of the most powerful people in Washington on his opponent's side, his campaign generates a remarkable groundswell of grassroots support, calling ...