February 20, 2010

Killing for Tenure

At this juncture, the University of Alabama at Huntsville killing/maiming is a mesmerizing car crash, as gripping, appalling, and terrifying as the mass assembly-line wreckage on this week's snowy Kansas highways.Every day yields a new ghastly r...

September 16, 2009

What I Saw at the Revolution

"Do you think there'll be porta-potties?" Was the anxious question my husband asked.  He's in his fifties, after all. He asked about restroom facilities several days before we left for DC, and enjoined me to "find out on the inter...