Thanks to today’s Daily Beast for alerting me to yet another incursion into personal rights: a university that may not graduate students it deems too fat. A Different Kind of Test November 20, 2009 More than two dozen seniors at Lincoln University, in...

Am I the only one who finds it interesting that the Fort Hood shooter was immediately identified as a Muslim but the religion of the Florida shooter has yet to be identified? Recall assorted other outbursts of violence recently and try to remember when...

There is not much hopeful or good that can be said about the right wingers in the U.S. They are without vision, without humanity, without ethics, without a sense of history, without an interest in the present and the future, and wholly absorbed by...

I just saw the newish (?) documentary on Dalton Trumbo, the 40’s and 50’s Hollywood screen writer who chose defending the First Amendment over ratting out friends who joined the Communist party in the 30’s when no one else was doing squat to confront...

Good for Obama and the Nobel Committee. He has not yet done all I hope for, but he has totally fulfilled my grinding desire to have a president in whom I can be proud and of whom I can say that he represents the best that is in the US.