It’s time to start connecting some dots in the BP oil spill.  Now, over eight weeks since the explosion that destroyed the Deepwater Horizon well, facts are starting to surface (albeit not nearly as fast as the oil) that constitute evidence, admittedly some of it circumstantial, of significant deficiencies by both corporate and governmental […]

            The Deepwater Horizon blowout, as the BP oil spill disaster has come to be known, may well turn out to be some kind of an environmental Armageddon before its flow of oil runs its course, deep in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.  Long before that point, however, even now, as a matter […]

            When I originally wrote this column, seven years ago, I was more in touch with the steady drumbeat of time than I was with the inevitability of death.  The two are, as I’ve since come to realize, much more closely linked than we may appreciate as we scurry along with the day-to-day business of […]

            Did you know that President Obama ordered to have a bust of Winston Churchill removed from the Oval Office?  That piece of information – phrased in those inflammatory terms – was sent to me by a reader who has had nothing but disdain for this president since his election.              This reader, and many […]