Ruminations

Here’s an observation by Charles Baxter in his review of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom: “What has happened, I think, is that the public spher...

Here's a Tom Hartmann quote ( http://www.truth-out.org/stop-them-eating-my-town65481 ) that quite succinctly captures the exasperating ...

I really like this quote from Maureen Dowd's column today in the NYT: "Together again were the president and vice president who inv...

A friend is currently representing a city council in its attempt not to be pre-empted by a Second Amendment-extremist-inspired state law in ...

The pathetic elections have provided an answer to the question posed in the last post. No, there is no way to avoid that conclusion. Corpora...

What does it say about America - or democracy in general - that elections can be "bought"? What does that mean? More money spent o...

Sometimes one runs across the perfect quote. I just did...from a Matt Taibbi piece in Rolling Stone back in 2009: ...in a society governed p...