As we hurtle head-long into the vortex of congregation, celebration, and consumption that our culture’s Christmas ritual has become, the following question nags at too many of us, from the backs of our minds: How can I find a little Christmas peace and happiness, in the midst of all this turmoil?
Read the Rest!Occupy Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving, I’m grateful that young people—in the streets and otherwise—are, openly and with persistence, questioning authority.
Read the Rest!NBA=WPA?
“It’s not practical, possible or prudent to have a full season now. We’re going to have to recalculate how bad the damage is. The next offer will reflect the extraordinary losses that are piling up now.”–NBA Commissioner David Stern
Read the Rest!Another GOP Orphan
Based on some of the reactions I received to last week’s Rant, it may be worse out there than even I expected.
Read the Rest!Adopt a (Real) Republican
To those millions of Americans who have finally begun paying attention to politics and watched with exasperation the tragicomedy of the debt ceiling extension, it may have come as a shock that the Republican Party is so full of lunatics.
Read the Rest!One Book Sacramento: In Twain
First off, the props: Congratulations and gratitude to the Sacramento Public Library, the Sacramento Bee Book Club, and the National Endowment for the Arts for making Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer this year’s Big Read/One Book Sacramento selection.
Read the Rest!Sick of Politics?
Even with one week to go–had enough of the infinite but intensifying demolition derby of cash-infused calumny that our electoral campaigns have become?
Read the Rest!How Green is my Footprint?
Oh, to be raised by an engineer. In my workplace, the rest of management mouth “green,” but that’s about as far as it goes.
Read the Rest!Here we go again
Off hiatus, two-plus years later. Things aren’t perfect — but isn’t it wonderful that you don’t have to turn aside, squint, and grit your teeth when the Leader of the Free World opens his mouth?
Read the Rest!Placekickers II
Picking up from last week: Who gets the ball, why, and how we get it back. “Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.”– Plato
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