Category: Steve

I’m not sure why I’ve been leaning towards supporting John Edwards this primary season. Perhaps its his populism and anti-corporatism

A very moving, and very sad, slideshow of the «Benazir Bhutto assassination» has been posted at the New York Times.

The only end-of-the-year list I ever pay any attention to (and agree completely with) is the list of the 50

Since I wasn’t posting during the last few months, I missed noting the saddest day of the year, which made

There were some remarkable people who left us in 2005: ‘When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom profit

The year that was: « Goodbye Hunter S. Thompson »: ‘‘Politics is the art of controlling your environment.’ That is one of

Stuff like « this » makes me wonder if my desire to return to my home state is really all that wise

“Rabbi Yoffie! You’re my new hero!” We need more courageous heroes like « Rabbi Eric Yoffie » to speak more truth to

“Jesus, save us from your followers!” I’ve been meaning to blog this for weeks, to read it into the record,

Thank you, Canada! And thank you Neil Hodgins and all our wonderful friends! Pics are up: « The Wedding » « The Reception »

I’m melancholy tonight, listening to « Harry Connick Jr.‘s » Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, Do You Know What It Means

Gosh. I feel so … honored. « Jerry Falwell now approves of me getting my master’s in elementary education », as long,

Just as on 11-Marzo, we were all Madrileños and on 11-September we were all New Yorkers, as of 7-July we

So. « Ayn Clouter writes movie script treatments ». Who knew? ‘What is really needed to refresh the medium is to bring

Undaunted by the « autopsy », Terri ‘Schiavo’s brain damage “was irreversible … no amount of treatment or rehabilitation would have reversed”

On Memorial Day, I always think back to 1989, when as a newspaper reporter, I was privileged to meet a

Wives Cope With Husband’s Memories (Part II of the Wake Island Story) By Steve Pollock The Duncan (OK) Banner Sunday,

Author Philip Caputo had an interesting interview with Fresh Air’s Terry Gross that I caught the other day at lunch.

Here on the 60th anniversary of VE Day, I’m watching two films, Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph des Willens and the Criterion

And now there’s confirmation in the mainstream press about a « North Carolina church’s purge of Democrats »: ‘Some in Pastor Chan

« WLOS », an ABC affiliate in western North Carolina, is reporting interesting news: ‘Religion and Politics Clash: Religion and politics clash

Every once in a while, there’s a ray of sunshiney hope that pierces the gathering gloom that is life in