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No Pundit Intended 4 Aug 2013 | 08:49 pm
"A false notion which is clear and precise will always have more power in the world than a true principle which is obscure or involved." --Alexis de Tocqueville It wasn’t until I began writing ...
Respecting the Story 23 Jul 2013 | 06:19 pm
Here’s a story, one that, like any good story, has a solid plot, good tension, heroes, and villains. In this case the villain is the Texas state legislature, limned in caricature by Representative Jo...
An Open-and-Never-Shut Case: The Zimmerman Verdict 16 Jul 2013 | 05:32 pm
[NOTE: Join me and co-host Eric Byler tonight on THE MIDDLE GROUND where we’ll ask you to chime in with your thoughts on the George Zimmerman verdict.] I admit to being incredibly confused by the Zim...
Sometimes a Not-So-Great Notion.... 14 Jul 2013 | 07:13 pm
While the proliferation of the internet continually creates new media at breakneck speed, providing a voice to millions, it also means that the worst kinds of political rhetoric are easily disguised a...
Mean Democracy 9 Jul 2013 | 01:29 am
I’ve been troubled for some time about democracy; I just don’t think it means what it used to mean. Democracy is supposed to be about hearing, considering, and respecting multiple voices, resulting i...
Greetings from Woodstock 4 Jul 2013 | 10:09 pm
I've just come back from a couple of days in Woodstock. Yes: THAT Woodstock. My son lives there and I drove the four-plus hours to help him celebrate his birthday. We spent some time recording music i...
Tying the Knot 23 Jun 2013 | 10:11 pm
This isn’t, as it turns out, the essay I planned on writing today. I started with the assumption that the piece would be a typical polemic in support of Gabriel Gomez, the Republican candidate vying w...
PRISM Through a Different Lens 20 Jun 2013 | 08:05 pm
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. -- Steven Weinberg, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics I’ve been hearing and seeing a lot lately (as we al...
GUEST POST: Politics, Dharma, and Equanimity: Going Beyond Right, Left, Red, and Blue 6 Jun 2013 | 08:43 pm
[Editor's Note: Today's post comes from Suzanne Harvey, fellow member of the New Hampshire Writers' Project and former representative in the New Hampshire state house. Suzanne was kind enough to read ...
Mirror, Mirror: Part 2 2 Jun 2013 | 06:27 pm
This morning, while watching Good Morning America: Weekend and breaking my fast with some granola and pineapple yogurt, I saw a story about this ad, from Cheerios. In it, a young girl—perhaps four or...
