Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.

I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.

Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?