In Praise of Folly

Kansas has just passed a law that, among other things, allows medical and other institutions to quarantine HIV/AIDS patients . ( Salon ) . ...

The tide has seemed to turn on the question of the Defense of Marriage Act. While one never knows what this surprisingly conservative court ...

You certainly can't please all the people all of the time, nor some of the people most of the time but there appears to be a group that...

The haves have been feeling pretty victimized of late, what from the Occupy movement to another Obama victory (he's just not that nice t...

An article on CNN.com today, "GOP, con front your racism policy," ( CNN ) exemplified a central problem with t he Pew findings I ...

A r eport from Pew today, State of The News Media ( Slate ), highlights the sorry state of contemporary journalism . Among its troubling f...

Arsenal entered the game against Swansea five points behind Chelsea and seven behind Tottenham for the Champions League places. Given that t...

I had to watch the game intermittently while teaching today and then caught the highlights at home, so I've gone back and watched the ga...

There are certainly positives to be taken from the Arsenal 2-0 away victory over Bayern in the second leg of the Champions League tie. Fabia...

I have often argued that Richard Nixon would be too liberal for the Democratic party today. He was for universal healthcare, started the EPA...

Two recent television shows, Scandal (2012-) and House of Cards (2013) give a great deal of insight into the current political milieu and th...

On Tuesday, the Venezuelan President finally succumbed to the cancer that has beset him for several years now. In death, the question that e...

Well, for those who weren't paying attention, sequestration did in fact come to pass last Friday. Among it's "minor cuts" ...

Arsenal's players walked onto the pitch yesterday knowing they needed a victory. And for 30 minutes they played like it. Then the a lmo...