Red Room Where the Writers Are

An old man stood at a podium.  Before him stretched an empty high school auditorium that hours before had been full of peopl

I don’t feel bad for John McCain anymore. Now I feel angry.

Few visit Antarctica, fewer still hear its call: Look at me every day. (An obsession, I might add, considerably easier now that YouTube and other image-sharing communities exist.) 

I felt bad for John McCain tonight.  Not so bad that I would ever consider voting for him but bad nonetheless.  He looked far less like a life-long p

Santa Cruz, CA. Watch Obama and McCain with 15 friends & neighbors. Three Republicans and 12 Democrats.

I don’t believe in “family values.” For as long as there has been a twenty-four hour news cycle, there has been a vocal contingent on the Right that

Friday morning, on  my way to a meeting that’s an hour+ drive from home, s

I've been giving some thought to the conservative outrage, as evidenced by McCain's ad on the subject, about Obama's "snubbing" of the wounded troops in Germany.