Ascension at the Stove

A year ago I started this blog as a way of venting my anxiety and frustration at the discourse of American politics. Frankly I was a mess. ...

The Republicans might have gotten to the point where even my dad's old friend Nat, the most right-wing crazy, gun-toting, racist asshole...

For someone of my generation, there were always lingering doubts about the character of Ted Kennedy, because like other younger men from fam...

OK, those two things don't seem to connect, but they did yesterday, because in the afternoon when the clouds were merely threatening, my...

Rarely does New York get it right. There is something too traditional about this great city, so that when "new" happens, it's...

John Yoo, a tenured faculty member at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, took leave from his teaching to join the Bush adm...

Watch Barney Frank address a "constituent" at a town hall meeting on health care. Nothing else need be said. Just how do people e...