For the past few weeks, I have passed a light-up sign on my way to work.  It stands at the turn toward the highway, having been placed there to give information to travelers about to head onto the interstate.  Its… Continue Reading →

Friends in the LGBT equality movement, let’s take a minute to right-size our perspective, shall we? We have made tremendous strides in the past few years.  It’s gotten to the point that three states legalizing marriage equality in the past… Continue Reading →

So you all know I love awards shows, right?  That’s pretty well established by now? As much as I’ve bloviated about the Oscars, however, it’s the Tony Awards to which I have an actual, real-life personal connection. When I first… Continue Reading →

For some reason, it was the grocery store that did it. In 2009, Maine passed a marriage equality bill through the legislature, and the governor signed it shortly thereafter.  That November, the bill was overturned in a “people’s veto” referendum. … Continue Reading →

Can someone please explain the point of the following to me?  (Via TPM.) Two days after President Obama’s commanding reelection victory, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) solemnly declared Obamacare the “law of the land” — apparently signaling that it was… Continue Reading →

All I could remember was an illustration.  It featured an old man transforming into a dragon. I couldn’t remember the plot very well, other than it involved an old man turning into a dragon.  I couldn’t remember any of the… Continue Reading →

One of the pitfalls of trying to keep a blog going with new material is that, sadly, the irritations and frustrations of its author may persist unchanged with time.  The worry that one has griped about something already and the… Continue Reading →

Oh, Adam Gopnik.    Are you aware of how ironic this is? When I was a child, two piles of magazines, pillars of this misplaced faith in a leisurely reading future, rose in adjacent basements. In our house, Scientific American, dense… Continue Reading →