Rules that govern what items of remembrance can adorn gravesites - particularly graves of veterans - may be amended, thanks to an argument over flags around the burial plot of a native son killed in Iraq. ...more

November 15, 2008

"Bigot!" "Prejudiced." "Hateful" "Ignorant." "Meanness." "Visceral hatred!" ...more

October 19, 2008

MENSA! Sheesh, I should have known! For the past few weeks, treasured reader Bart Siegel, who got his hoop skirt in a wad over some critical columns on the Confederate flag kerfuffle, has been issuing more challenges to debate than John McCain. ...more

June 29, 2008

It is altogether possible that by the end of the day, Florida once again could be held up to the rest of the nation as more backward than Dogpatch, making even Mississippi look like a golden age of Enlightenment. ...more

February 19, 2008