Dukaki — n., pl.; (1) progressive politicians vaporized at the polls for campaigns in which they chose not to tell voters what they stand for; (2) Candidates who go out with no bang, only whimpers. We start this discussion with a fact: The stimulus bill worked. USA Today veritably screamed it in an editorial…
My wife expressed alarm that the mute on the TV remote is being unresponsive, or at least slow on the draw. I suggested that the problem is simply structural fatigue. A mopey mute is a serious matter right now. Put in personal terms: Through Nov. 2, if viewing TV — baseball…
DENVER — Actually doing something about homelessness seems like the stuff of fifth-grade essays or beauty queens’ answers of 25 words or less. But it takes more than 25 words for Mike George to explain how he sank into the social chasm that nearly left him a corpse on the pavement. It took more than…
The man in the good suit and great hair came expecting to make a sale: He prefaced it with, “I know you care about children.” He was talking about education, and since I wrote about it a lot, he figured, well . . . It turned out that the…