Dana Milbank has a good column in last Sunday’s Washington Post: “Health reform and the specter of Alf Landon.”
Landon, you might recall, ran against FDR in 1936’s presidential election – …

So I was just re-reading the Fourteenth Amendment (what, you don’t read the Constitution for fun?) and I came to a horrible conclusion – it’s possible I won’t be able …

I love the New York Times interactive timelines. Here’s one that’s just fantastic: “A History of Overhauling Health Care.”

In the John Lewis piece the other day I quoted Thomas Jefferson, his “tree of liberty” quote. I mentioned how the militias and the other hate groups of our …

Have you seen this yet: “Spitting and Slurs Directed at Lawmakers?”
Tea Party protesers apparently spit on House of Representative members, yelled gay slurs at Barney Frank and the “N-word” at …

I’m still mulling over Susan Jacoby’s Op-Ed from yesterday’s New York Times: “One Classroom, From Sea to Shining Sea.”
Jacoby’s The Age of American Unreason is a brilliant book, but I’m …

Did you see that Fess Parker passed away today?
Reminds me of a story about Daniel Boone.
And no, this has nothing to do with Parker being a Disney Legend for playing …

Not sure if you’ve been following the story of the Texas board of education and how they’ve been throwing their conservative weight around with school book publishers. Things like …

It was 20 years ago today that the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Back Bay Boston was broken into. In total thirteen works were pilfered. The thieves were …

I’ve been thinking about that new Disney book Project Future that I was telling you about yesterday (see New Disney Book).
I’m psyched for it, but there’s another book that I …

Fantastic article about digital preservation in Monday’s New York Times: “Fending Off Digital Decay, Bit by Bit.”

Missed this one yesterday – the first .com domain was registered on March 15, 1985.
Twenty-five years ago symbolics.com linked to a – you guessed it – now-defunct computer manufacturer.
My only …

How have I not heard of this book?!
If this were any more up my alley I would have written it! Check out this Orlando Sentinel article: “Talking With …

This entry has to do with the television show Lost. If you watch the show but you missed last week’s episode, you might want to skip this as I …

A little Edwards family history story for Tuesday. It was 213 years ago today that my ancestors moved to Maine. My great-grandfather’s great-grandfather, William Edwards, made the trek …