Obama May Have Aimed For Greatness, But He’s Hitting Average
On the evening of the New Hampshire Primary in 2008, after he had come in a close second to the woman who would eventually become his 1st Secretary of State, […]
Author Archives: Virally Suppressed
The Richwine Curve
Alright my dewy-eyed, upwardly-mobile sons and daughters of the American Revolution—it’s high time to put away them crisp-cornered, technicolor Trapper Keepers you got atop your desks because we’re fitting to […]
With Congress, It’s Never Too Early To Hand Out The Hardware
In retrospect, I feel as though the failure of Mitt Romney’s campaign could be fully captured in the “impromptu” football game he organized in Florida between members of his staff […]
Wall Street & The Language of Avarice
I don’t usually write about economics and financial markets and the reason for this is fairly simple: they intimidate the hell out of me. Mind you, I’m not talking about […]
America’s Star-Spangled Pastime
A Sunday afternoon sky filled with sizzling fat drops rising up in the sausage smoke air—ballcapped kids half-running around in their kid-sized jerseys with their kid-sized gloves, floppy cargo shorts […]
To Commit or Not to Commit
Freedom is a funny thing. In On Liberty, John Stuart Mill wrote, “The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, […]
Deinstitutionalizing Harry
This past week, Mother Jones‘ Deanna Pan posted a great, although brief, timeline of deinstitutionalization in the United States’ mental health systemi, running from the 1st mental patient admitted to […]
The Island of Misfit Presidents
As all 5 living US Presidents gathered together on the grounds of Dallas’ Southern Methodist University yesterday to celebrate the unveiling of The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, […]
Overeducated & Unemployed
What was that line y’all fed us when we were but knee high and tow headed, sitting cross-legged in the assembly hall with casts on our arms and a song […]
Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged: A Review of Tyler Perry’s Temptation
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest. – Nathaniel Hawthorne Fear begins in the not knowing—it is the last defense against […]
