Why won’t Democrats defend themselves?
If you read the news carefully, you will see where Republicans repeatedly trump up some phony issue, score a bunch of headlines, and move on to another issue before most people ever figure out just how phony it was. Polls seem to show that it’s working for them.
Here’s an example. During [...]

I thought of doing something full of snow that looked cold for January, but the fact that we’re entering into a new decade seemed to me to be simply more significant than anything else. It’s interesting how we silly humans insist on marking everything into segments and parcels and pieces; drawing lines and building barriars. [...]

What are we to conclude from the failure of the Copenhagen climate change summit?
The Frontiers of Science lecture at the University of Utah had been excellent – as usual! Attending these world-class presentations was one of the really great benefits of living in a large city. The speakers were always at least on a level [...]