Anticipating Easter
Anticipating Easter and impatient for Spring I find myself contemplating Christmas. I have lived my entire life in rural NYS, most of it in its somewhat northern reaches. The Northern-European-Agrarian-Pagan…
Libel: Will Defamation Suits Doom Three Right-Wing Media Outlets?
Libel and slander cases are increasingly viewed as long-shot legal propositions that aren't worth the effort required to see the cases to completion only to suffer defeat. But three high-profile…
#CancelColbert and the Return of the Anti-Liberal Left
Picture courtesy imdb.com Perhaps every political generation is fated to be appalled by the one that succeeds it. In the 1960s, longtime socialist intellectuals were horrified by the anarchic energies…
The Torture Report’s Long, Winding Road
The Senate committee vote to release part of a 6,300-page report on the CIA's now-defunct rendition and torture program is something of a mixed blessing. On one hand, it is…
Ukraine’s Inconvenient Neo-Nazis
The U.S. media's take on the Ukraine crisis is that a "democratic revolution" ousted President Viktor Yanukovych, followed by a "legitimate" change of government. So, to mention the key role…