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Spending a day in the ER clarifies. Behind the (mostly) smiling professionalism a grim reality. Keeping the Destroyer at bay. The banalit...

Among the many analyses and diatribes I've read on this unprecedented, surreal, crazy (insert your own adjective) election season this e...

The collapse of families and communities -- so far, more or less disguisable as "mobility" or "growth" or "prog...

Originally posted in December 2007 Shannon and I returned home late last night after spending the evening with some friends. I wasn't ...

I've written in this space before about my admiration for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders -- formerly, a mostly unknown quantity nation...

Be warned. Watching Waiting for "Superman" is a pretty depressing experience. It left me discouraged about the future of our coun...

(Mild spoilers ahead.) In the twentieth chapter of John's Gospel we see the resurrected Jesus appearing to the disciples as they c...

At its best football is poetry, and at its best writing about football must attempt to translate the untranslatable. This -- the opening pa...

It's been years since I read A Scanner Darkly by the brilliant sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), but something about recent h...

Boyhood is Richard Linklater's magnum opus. There's so much I could say about this film, and I already know it's one I'...