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…

HERD ABOUT IT? by ana grarian I would title this Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Morning On this wintry morning I love this poem from Jon Katz's Bedlam Farm…