So, were you surprised by the easy win Obama scored last week in his presidential re-election?  How you answer that question is a good indication of where you get your political news and which pundit you relied on for predictions. If you were like me and lived off of the twice-a-day reports from Nate Silver, […]

And so another season has come and gone.  Another 162 games that led to another series of playoffs that ended in a none-too-rare four-game sweep in the World Series (four times in the last nine years). Well, first of all, as a life-long Dodger fan, congrats to the rival Giants for their spectacular sweep of […]

There was a definite irony in the death of George McGovern on the eve of the last presidential debate last weekend.  Just as Mitt Romney was about to unveil himself as a faux-peace candidate, while Barack Obama insisted on sounding like a more muscular version of George W. Bush, McGovern’s obituaries were reminding Americans of […]

I readily admit to not understanding religious fanaticism of any stripe.  How can anyone profess absolute belief not only in a supernatural power that deserves worship and adoration, but to a set of dictates presumably handed down by that power that are then taken so literally as to lead to acts of cruelty and even […]