Politics After 50

I don't watch TV very often. I don't own one. I owned one for a while when I lived in the states, but it sat like a boat anchor on my bedroom table or on a cabinet in my living room and never had cable juice coursing through its veins until two momentous...

I've been traveling around France for the last few weeks, in the company of two lovely friends. I can't really say that there were long stretches of empty road, when the three of us had run out of funny things to say and I could drift off and contemplate...

Since I'm a recovering Catholic, I've been following the sexual abuse scandal closely. I have to say that Andrew Sullivan has some of the best coverage out there, including the fact that history of such abuse goes back hundreds of years, that it isn...

I've been thinking a lot lately about all these labels that are being bandied about: fringe left, lunatic liberals, those darn Progressives, etc.
I, like you, am an individual and I, like you, defy all labels.
That's why I scratch my head when pundits and government representatives talk about issues as if they're only about the labeled groups behind them. As if the issues are simply liberal or Progressive and the conversation stops there. It has become a way...