The Alabama Solution This Jimmy Fallon interview with Andrew Jarecki about his documentary The Alabama Solution reminded me of the most r...

Take Back Your Mink What a bizarre day. In an moment of unguarded generosity, he had volunteered to be in a gay fundraiser; a musical revue....

  Down The Rabbit Hole This is Bad Bunny falling into a crowd. I hadn’t seen the half-time show, so, initially, I wondered if it was AI. App...

 The Road to Healing When it comes to football, like religion, I'm an apostate.  I watch Alabama football and maybe a couple of other co...

  Pravda ! My wife and I lived with her parents back in the 60s while we were going to South Alabama.  Her father proudly labeled himself ...

 Iskra is the Russian word for "spark" and not coincidentally the name of a socialist newspaper in Russia at the end of the 19th ...

A few years ago I was on a road in southern Honduras. I had been there one or two weeks working a case and was, finally, going to the airpor...

 A Sobremesa Frustrated and depressed from the crushing world news that things are far from getting better, I took a break from Facebook thi...

Breaking the Close They have arrested a lawyer, supposedly one of the organizers of the protest that took place inside a church in Minneapol...

BASTA!  Trump is the poster boy for Marcuse's criticism of modern societal systems as one-dimensional. He gives thin excuses for engagem...

  The administration has moved on from using drugs as the premise for what is happening in our hemisphere. It is not about drugs, certainly ...

This picture is making the rounds.  To some, it's proof positive that this is a drug boat, suggesting that whoever was in that boat dese...

Here, Piggy, Piggy! Press Secretary Leavitt's comments defending Trump's "piggy" comments as part of his "frank, hone...

 Murder. Period. In early September I wrote this piece about the bombings of vessels in international waters from the perspective of a cri...

I've been reluctant to throw around what I know to be overused. abused,  and loaded political terms like fascist; it bites at our credul...