A study by public-health researchers at Johns Hopkins says that estimates of deaths in Iraq since we did that nation the great service of bringing them democracy are way low, that the likelihood is 600,000 have died. Though they say…
I’m surprised that everyone covering Corey Lidle’s death has avoided the psychological question: Was depression or suicidal feeling a factor in the crash? Let’s go to the videotape: in his last appearance in the public eye, just four days before…
The Halftime show on Monday Night Football on ESPN is featuring something called “Jacked Up,” showing the five biggest hits of the previous weekend’s action and asking people to vote on which was the best one. The hits are blindside…
The woods this fall are filled with acorns. Trails are a kind of roller derby of the nuts underfoot, and squirrels look fat and happy. At night there’s a continual clatter, as the acorns fall. A friend who lives in…
“Relationships matter in public life, until they do not.” (From Cheney: The Fatal Touch, in the New York Review of Books…)
As I went downtown on the subway Thursday I wondered whether I wasn’t going to seem a fool for how excited I’d been in the days leading up to the debate. Then when I got there that selfconsciousness vanished, because…
As a devotee of Chris Matthews, I’d point out a couple new trends on Hardball. A, he’s been using profanity, saying “damn” a lot and “bastards,” usually about our failed foreign policy; and B, he’s trying to give the neocons…
Something’s wrong with the baseball standings in the papers and online. No one’s interested in reading the classic divisional standings; we know who won now, only two out of six races are in play, Detroit vs Minnesota in the AL…
My friend Tony Schmitz is a doghater, but has owned two or three over the years because of his daughters, and his dogloving wife. He would say to me, “All they like to do is look around for a pile…