I always read Dick Cavett’s column for the New York Times. I am a great fan of his, inasmuch as I am a great fan of anyone who is beautifully well spoken, intelligent and thoughtful. Here he is on Sarah Palin, whom I believe we both agree should just go away: I feel a little [...]
This is some extremely powerful writing on liberty and government’s slow eroding of our freedoms. Although inspired by a failed attempt in the UK to mandate the detention of terror suspects without charge for 42 days, this has as much — if not more — to do with America. Those behind this law in Britain [...]
Nov. 11th is Veteran’s Day, and it is also the birthday of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., every liberal, college-age male’s favorite author. Kurt would have been 86 years old this year. I saw him speak once and he was smart, self depreciating and very funny. Vonnegut was a veteran of the Second World War, and as [...]
Amazing imagery comes from some very cool places. Below is the winner of this year’s National Radio Astronomy Observatory Image Contest, an amazing picture in radio & infrared wavelengths of the Milky Way’s Galactic Center: The investigators who brought us this lovely spectacle are Adam Ginsburg and John Bally, both of the University of Colorado [...]
Jimmy was a member of the original Mothers of Invention and a total nut. What a lot of people don’t realize is that he had one of the great backbeats in rock. It would just snap. I’ve always thought it was sad that after the Mothers disbanded he didn’t find the kind of success he [...]