Archive for December, 2012

Usually, social revolutions are not that self-evident in their infancies and often never really get off the ground. But in the spirit of the optimism we’re all supposed to adopt in the holiday

The National Rifle Association is the tip of the spear of what has become of American culture. This is not to excuse the NRA in the slightest. As I tweeted last Friday in the global emotional swirl

By and large, I was raised a jock. So were all boys in my day who could make the cuts to be on youth sports teams. Those whose names didn’t appear on the lists posted outside the coaches’

Since there is so much talk about cliffs (mostly of the fiscal variety) these days, it occurs to me that perhaps the most iconic “over the cliff” movie ever was James Dean’s 1955 Academy