What we’re seeing is this: a cross between The Missiles of October and Dr. Strangelove — a standoff of nuclear proportions. A nation stands on the brink of — stock-market armageddon? A credit-rating mushroom cloud? By air, the missiles of a warring party — the tea party — are observed registering red on the map,…
Face it. Regression is in. Let us return to yesteryear. Actually, let’s return to the day before that. A marginal candidate wins the Senate seat from Kentucky saying the Voting Rights Act is obsolete. An even more marginal candidate emerges as the Republican presidential favorite in Iowa. Her husband makes his living…
Having seen what I did of the Casey Anthony trial, I must agree with the general public consensus. Having seen, that is, zero seconds of the gripping proceedings, zero seconds of the breathless analysis pre- and post-verdict, and having read zero words about the result save for headlines. Life is short. If everyone says the…
“Our children,” wrote Marshall McLuhan decades before Facebook and Twitter, “are engaged in extraordinarily hard work, and that work is growing up — because to grow up in a modern electronic environment is a fantastically complex and difficult job.” “Pshaw,” will come the auto-rejoinder. “Their lives are too easy — and nothing the…