To Jack Pearlman in Eisenhower Hospital, Palm Desert Death rounds the bases and heads into home-- Nothing to do but watch-- keeping the eyes alert, (an old body ravaged by time) 'Now & at the hour of our death..' You lived long, played h… more »

Egan gets to this one in NY Times piece. With frustrations over job loss and foreclosures sending folks into dire straits, we are bound to see frustrations acted out one way or another, but with a gun the damage is pretty awful. We can only hope all the… more »

I found it disappointing and, worse yet, perhaps unflatteringly revealing of the man himself, that Pres. Obama saw fit to add his relatively senseless apology for America on his inaugural presidential trip abroad that the U.S. is neither crass nor arroga… more »

The 500 richest people in the world, according to a U.N. calculation a few years ago, earned more than the 416 million poorest people. It’s worth bearing in mind that the first group bears a measure of responsibility for the global economic mess but will… more »