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It's hard to get perspective sometimes on the differences between Clinton and Obama in the delegate counts. For me at least, numbers and text just don't do it. I'm more of a visual person. Here ...

[From the Frog Pond ] A reader asks a sincere question: ...

To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt ten-fold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundred-fold. This the rulers of the ...

In the wake of the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes in direct violation of several court orders, it appears more and more information is being released about the wide rift between the CIA and ...

On August 4, 2004, I turned my back on my family. They dropped me off at a hotel in Dallas so I could begin my Army career. As I walked toward the door, my dad said to me, "You're a man now, Alex." ...

The key to saving the world is having each person take good action as best they can. In practice, it's easy to do less than our abilities because of distractions or setbacks. It would be useful to ...

If anyone's read my past diaries, they know that one of the things I consider crucial to countering the heavy republican media infrastructure is the battle of framing and terminology. The one ...

He was a Jimmy Stewart kind of man. Tall and lanky, quiet and deliberate. His sense of humor and fun was unparalleled amongst his large group of friends, those he worked with and in those couples ...

Republicans are devious and shrewd, but they are not subtle. They cannot afford to be. In the last two presidential elections their strategy has been to create an overarching narrative and to ...

[This is (sad to say) an updated version of a Diary I posted at Daily Kos on December 8, 2006.] I don’t know anything about the psychology of numbers. Specifically, the magnetism round ...