Innocents and Accidents, Hints and Allegations

As we all know, the first day of spring is when the Red Sox equipment truck leaves Fenway Park to drive to Fort Myers, Florida for the begin...

So Google has introduced Google Buzz, which appears to be a sort of Facebooky Twitter, or a Twittery Facebook. Experts are calling it a ...

Velvet's new 100 word challenge this week is "Darkness". You can't see it, but it's there. It's doubt. Fear....

Podcaster and gadfly Dan Carlin has a very interesting answer to the Citizens United Supreme Court decision. Carlin believes, and I have to ...

A very distressing Slate Political Gabfest this week, forecasting deficits as far as the eye can see. The President's 2011 budget fore...

This is a really tremendous article about death and dying, "Good Grief" from poet Meghan O' Rourke, which I learned about from...

.... this is what they're talking about. Research 2000 polled self identified Republicans and asked them a series of questions. A num...

The lovely and talented Novelista Barista hosted a brief screed of mine over on her front porch at novelistabarista.blogspot.com. If you...

"I threw just as hard. The ball just didn't go as fast." -Bob Feller I think I have my new motto.

Word broke across the Twitterverse today that JD Salinger, the author arguably more famous for his decades of reticence than for his prose, ...

Yet another 100 Words, inspired by the wondrous prose stylings of Velvet Verbosity, on display aqui. What is Thirty? Thirty is when “I...

Keith Olbermann on the Citizens United Supreme Court decision.

A sad, and somehow funny, post from the Bloggess, the immortal, and immoral, Jenny.

(h/t Surviving Grady) Truck Day is coming, my children. Spring is almost here.

They say it takes a big man to admit when he's wrong. And those of you who have met me in person know I am nothing if not a big man. I...