If you live in the Northeast as I do, have you looked at the projected 2012 electoral map lately? See that blue lake of
Category: Ideas
Going green: The choices aren’t always black and white
You launder your clothes in cold water. You load up the dishwasher to the hilt before running it. You compost, buy local and organic,
Transit of Venus puts our lives and issues into perspective
In the midst of an election season that—like so many others—is being billed as “the most important in our lifetimes”—something much bigger—literally cosmic—is happening
Dan Rather – so much more professional than Mike Wallace
On April 7, 2012, Mike Wallace of CBS News and 60 Minutes passed away. It’s hard to imagine any other journalist/entertainer who received a
The greatest grid: When America thought big
Most people who want to navigate the streets of New York City quickly learn the easy-to-follow logic of the city’s street grid. But what
Denying global warming: How low can you go?
When Unabomber Theodore J. Kaczynski becomes your poster child, you’ve reached a new low. And that’s exactly what happened recently in Chicago, when the
Tunnel plug vs. tunnel vision
If a flood swamped subway or commuter-rail tunnels, it could devastate an urban area’s buried electrical cables and foul up transportation for days or
It’s not the economy, stupid: It’s religion
James Carville may have been right in 1992, when he displayed a sign in the office of presidential candidate Bill Clinton saying, “It’s The
What “hasn’t worked a day in her life” really means
I’m so angry at the way the Republicans and mainstream media have jumped all over a comment made by Hilary Rosen about Ann Romney
The Heritage Foundation wants me to join up. Here’s their scary pitch.
I’m being recruited by the Heritage Foundation. They like me, they really like me! Or, perhaps, they like my zipcode and phone number, which