“Self-interest” is a symptom of a slavish mind

Thanks to The Republic of T., I came across this editorial by David Bromwich in The Huffington Post: Parable of the Poor and Rich Plumber.  It hits on many of my concerns regarding the manner in which the US population is approaching politics these days, particularly in the red states of the former frontier.  (And [...]

Notes from Fresh Air

There have been a million things I have meant to blog about in the past couple of months, particularly with the uproarious outrage of McCain’s naming of Palin as his running mate and Obama being pushed to the brink of changing his middle name to Steve.  But instead – I have just finished eating some [...]