Fate’s metaphors

Here’s another failing of the Bush White House: they don’t know when to keep their mouth shut. Today — although suffering and horror continued on the Gulf Coast — troops streaming in to help  [more...]

With my birthday looming less than 24 hours away, I didn’t need this today: I became an old man who is too doddering to use a photocopier. I stood in front of the blasted newfangled machine, put the document on  [more...]

I just can’t decide what the whole Miers nomination was about. Either the White House figured that they’d get her confirmed because she had no judicial experience and therefore no one could look at her past;  [more...]