Frozen Toothpaste

On today’s “Other People’s Words,” a quote from the book I reviewed Monday, The Moral Center. I do feel the need to apologize for bringing it up again, but I can’t seem to avoid it. In this excerpt, Callahan makes some interesting observations about the how attitudes towards work and collective struggle have shifted over […]

Today, maybe for the first time, a lot of people heard about a little town called Jena, Louisiana. It’s become the newest flash point in America’s notoriously acrimonious black-white race relations.
In Jena, Louisiana, these acrimonious relations got violent. In the culminating event, six black students of Jena High School assaulted one white student. For this […]

“Hello,” said the piggy bank I’ve had since I was two. He was sitting in a box on the floor.
“Yes?” I asked, slightly irritated.
“We don’t really see much of each other anymore. I was just wondering why.”
“Well, it’s because I don’t need you anymore. I keep my money elsewhere. And besides, you look silly. I’m […]

In Monday’s review of The Moral Center, I mentioned that David Callahan had offered his moderate platform for changing America to either Democrats of a third party. It wasn’t until after I hit “Publish” that I considered the possibility that the platform could be good for the ailing Republicans.
But after some consideration, I decided it […]

For a while, I was obsessed with the idea of slaying dragons. Perhaps it started when I read Tolkien’s immortal tale of The Hobbit, but it didn’t end there. Whenever low clouds would obscure the tops of the nearby foothills, I’d dream about venturing up there to slay the dragon that surely existed within […]