Or spokeswomen for that matter.  •  So, Canada is now bad because a speech by Ann Coulter was canceled tonight. As far as I can tell the real trouble with Ann Coulter is that she comes across more than anything else as a poor thinker and a clumsy speaker. Look at what all the fuss is over tonight …

I watched the vote in the House of Representatives yesterday and was struck how was a real lesson in civility. For an issue that is undoubtedly going to "not only changes the relationship of the citizen to the state but the very character of the people" according to one famous Chicken Little {h/t …

I dunno. Wayne's World is on and on Tuesday I'll be over on the other side seeing how things settled out. Is tomorrow like the decision to accept human rights or like the decision to run two wars for a decade without funding them? I dunno.

I like that phrase "the rhetoric of opposition" which I picked up off a TV show the other day. I think it was about the English Civil War but it could also have been about basketball. It's really all we are about these days:  •  Whether it's correctly called a movement, a backlash or political …

There always seems to be a day off before these school breaks. The day before that is a day that nothing gets done, the ones before that focus on what you are going to do when school is closed. I will work - by comparison of significant degree - and work I will. Not with a shovel but with a …

You know there are times when you have to give the freakishly paranoid conservative panic movement a nod. You know when they say things like the nation is lost, the US is under socialist invasion, that eating your vegetables is a communist plot... well, note this out of Geneva from a couple of …

The New York Times has published the thoughts of five prominent Republicans on the health care question and this is good. You wouldn't catch FoxNews or Limbaugh setting out the position of the right. Responsibility for one's own ideas carries too many risks. But the care that has gone into …

So it was a big day for the rights of man as Andre Dawson is announced to be entering the Baseball Hall of Fame as a Montreal Expo. But he don't like it:  •  Dawson — considered by some to be the best player in Expos franchise history — will be enshrined in Cooperstown, N.Y., as an Expo and not a …

I missed yesterday. I can't be tied to your incessant demands for content yet when was the last time I missed a Thursday post. Remember when I posted more than once a day? Remember when I had 12,000 readers a day? We have to face facts: blogging has become like home recording on 8 track tapes. I … read more »