Innocents and Accidents, Hints and Allegations

Via @GallagherMeow on Twitter, shaky handheld footage of Guns and Roses, February 14, 2010. Guns N' Roses from Purple Magazine on Vi...

The affair of Kevin Smith v. Southwest Airlines et al appears a little less resolved than I believed. If you read Smith's post, which is...

So Velvet Verbosity posts these little 100 word writing prompts, and I have been known to participate. Half looking at Twitter, I got the c...

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.