What Do I Know?

I wrote this yesterday. I’m over the Pacific just west of Acapulco, about three hours from landing in LA.  We’ve been out of the US for j...

NPR's Ted Talk show this week*  , Attention Please, was about how the world is vying for your attention.  They noted the average person ...

Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) This tight German series focuses on a Köln (Cologne) police officer, Gereon Rath, transferred to Berlin.  The...

I've recently finished Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.  It's one of the graphic novels I got at Pulp Fiction in LA. The time ...

According to the Washington Post: Policy analysts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were told of the list of fo...

Here's the kind of questions you get at the Trump/Pence Mainstream Media Accountability Survey. 5.  On which issues does the mainstre...

"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists...

I said yesterday it felt like part of the USA had died.  It appears others have felt the same.   This piece by Neal Gabler at Moyers&Co...

IT was James, a thickset American interrogator nicknamed “the Elephant,” who first told Lakhdar Boumediene that investigators were certa...

I don't have a lot of time for this, but did want to at least link to this piece which comes from documents found in Gadaffi's stash...

"The papers published in this volume were given to me some time after the war by a Dutch lawyer in Amersterdam." So begins D...

I've been reading so much stuff on the TSA 'enhanced Pat-Down" (enhanced is supposed to mean made better, isn't it?) that m...

[Update, Feb. 24: New post with video of Rep. Cissna talking to media as she gets off the ferry.] The Alaska State House passed a "S...