In case you hadn't yet heard, last night's broadcast was Keith Olbermann's last Countdown . It seems, once again, that a strong...

Memo to ex-governor Palin and her ghostwriters and puppetmasters: History and literature--not that you've ever demonstrated any understa...

From this day forward, may they know only the best and most beautiful of things of which humans beings are capable. May they know amazing gr...

In a disturbing and potentially game-changing development on the Wikileaks front, the United States Department of Justice has served a subpo...

"Mr. Obama could also use a little bit more self-awareness. He should consider how powerful—and inappropriate—a model he sets by his ow...

Readers know how much I adore cats--all cats, all shapes and sizes and species--but in light of the recent addition to the family, one Ruby ...

Long ago, my eldest son--then just a wee thing with a very grown-up taste when it came to music--had been playing deejay, going through our ...

Following up Sir Charles' recent post about the pathetic state of our mainstream press--who continue to do their masters' bidding w...

Gelsey Kirkland and Mikhail Baryshnikov dancing in Tchaikovsky's holiday classic, The Nutcracker . They're simply brilliant together...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it...

What did American journalists based in our nation's capital and elsewhere do when over a hundred U.S. veterans chained themselves to the...

In the winter of 2007, I wrote this sonnet sequence in response to some of the worrisome events I'd seen take place that year--specific...

So, about the whole Wikileaks matter. You weren't thinking, Well, I've pretty much heard everything , were you? Behold the latest ...

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But consci...

Cassandra I heard one who said: "Verily, What word have I for children here? Your Dollar is your only Word, The wrath of it your only f...

I know I'm not alone in hoping that Florida Congressman Alan Grayson returns to Washington soon. He's been one of the very few Good...

"When I contemplate the natural dignity of man, when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for the ho...

I had not seen this footage, compiled by the Alex Sink campaign, prior to this morning--a full three days after the midterms. And I'm gu...

Yesterday morning, after I'd taken my two younger sons to school and before I would take my eldest son to the polls to vote in his first...