Molly Ivins Passes Away from Cancer

When damn near everyone was capitulating. When the media outlets gave Bush pass after pass after pass I only remember a few people who were willing to say that the emperor President had no clothes. One of them passed away today. To say she will be missed is a brutal...

Precarious*

I coined the phrase precarious* to reflect contemporary middle class life. Listen to my most recent NPR commentary to hear me talk about it.

The Obama ain't black meme continues…

This time with an article from the Washington Post entitled Obama’s Appeal to Blacks an Open Question. On the one hand the article gives blacks credit for being relatively sophisticated enough not to simply support Obama because he is black. And there are very...