Edith Windsor, Gay Widow, Revels in Supreme Court Fight

This may be a Memorial Day that George Bush will want to forget. You see, when one takes a day to honor our nation’s war deaths, an accounting usually follows. And the accounting of deaths in Bush’s war in  [more...]

Here I sit in the terminal at National Airport, a facility that has been renamed in honor of a president who fired all the air traffic controllers.

Wonderful comments by Kurt Vonnegut, courtesy of boingboing: I note that construction has stopped of a Mark Twain Museum here in Hartford behind the carriage house of the Mark Twain House at 351 Farmington Avenue. Work  [more...]