The Huck Upchuck

Over at The Atlantic , Ta-Nehisi Coates has a very thoughtful, empathetic, and moving blog posting in which he, as a black man, really prob...

Since the Democratic Primary, I've come to believe that Obama is not a great debater in structured debate formats. At best, one could s...

As I was sorting through my (mostly junk) mail today, I thought: if there's one silver lining in the whole financial crisis, it's th...

You should be, too.

Having seen Matt Forte play for the Green Wave last year, I knew he would not only be a starter getting lots of touches with the Bears in hi...

Like the alliteration in the title? If so, and if you care about New Orleans, that's about all you're probably going to like in the...

You know, I have a tendency to follow certain archetypical conservative blogs. Part of my reasoning for doing so is that one needs to know ...

In my previous posting , I discussed McCain's recent "Spain" gaffe. In the comments section to this posting, one of my regula...

Just came across this article today: The pastor whose prayer Sarah Palin says helped her to become governor of Alaska founded his ministry ...

As a Latinophile/Hispanophile, I would be remiss in not posting something about the recent gaffe McCain made during an interview with a Mi...

In response to this blog posting , Jeffrey goes on one of his classic tears , to which I say, as someone intimately knowledgable of the Tula...

Tomorrow, September 15, 2008, Mexican President Felipe Calderon will mark the 198th anniversity of Mexico's independence by issuing Migu...

After having spoken with Gordon Russell at the end of last week about my experience in the I-59 contraflow during the recent Gustav evacuati...

Check out Jeffrey's story of an encounter he witnessed between a pleasant and helpful local Wal-Mart cashier and some good-spirited Hur...

In his most recent opinion piece , Charles Krauthammer goes after ABC's Charlie Gibson not only for being a condescending snob towards S...

Gotta give Jeffrey his due for being one of the first to think imaginatively about Sarah Palin's "Bush Doctrine" moment in he...

Women of the USA, this is worth a view:

The honeymoon is winding down, and the sheen of Sarah Palin is finally beginning to dull. And this is despite herculean efforts by the McCa...

(1) This , which I experienced some two years ago for about 2 months and which, thankfully, I have not experienced since; and (2) This , whi...

Came across this today: Now, the women in this clip are all conservative pundits and bloggers who regularly go to great lengths to rail agai...