Leakage from a Cluttered Mind

The election of Scott Brown as the new U.S. senator from Massachusetts has thrown the health care bill off track. Regardless of whether the bill will improve the health care situation in the U.S. (what is in the bill, anyway?), the tactics used to negotiate the bill offends our innate sense of equality and integrity.

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November 9, 1932 headlines

Characteristically, in the last stages of the campaign, it’s been evident that politics in the raw is seldom mild.

In an old mining cabin high in the White Mountains, I found an old newspaper tacked to the wall. Besides the headlines proclaiming Roosevelt’s win, there was another page of […]