Canadians are paying a strange sort of tribute to the late Leonard Nimoy --- they're drawing his most famous character, Spock from "Star Trek," over a 19th-century politician on their…

  I've been sidelined for a while due to an operation: unable to walk, or move much. So, TV and internet it is. I keep waking up, after sleeping in…

  The alarm goes off, Barack Obama looks at the clock radio, and realizes it's Groundhog Day again...   Each day, every week, month after month, the character assassination continues.…

  I have been reading Blackwater, and Jeremy Scahill's book: perhaps without intent, confirms a view I have been developing ever since I left the right in the mid-70s.  …

 This past week had a personal Facebook landmark, and an unfortunate one. I "unfriended" someone. Worse: it was a relative.   Understand; I have theists, atheists, conservatives, liberals: just about…