Uneasy Rhetoric

By inertia more than anything, I eat lunch out. I always make it seem as though I was just too rushed in the morning to put together a lunch, when secretly I know I enjoy that hour outside the office, in a place that is not my work.
When I worked in Silverton, Oregon, there were [...]

If you’re the kind of person, like me, who tends to read a newspaper by reading the headlines and the first paragraph or two, you might be given a false impression by this article in the New York Times.
Based on the first few lines of the article, you might think that Arnold has slashed $150 [...]

I have to wonder about what kind of world we live in when a story in The Onion, instead of making me guffaw out loud at the absurdity of it all, instead makes me nod my head introspectively.
Sadly, many of The Onion’s stories lately smack of truth. Our current administration is that bald-faced about what [...]

The Decembrist has an interesting post about speaking to a college class about campaign finance reform. The class is in a correctional institution and, depsite the fact that they, as felons, can’t vote in most states, wouldn’t be able to even on probation or parole in many states, and wouldn’t be able to vote for [...]