People have been fulminating about the why the President chose Nico Pitney of the Huffington Post for the second question at today's press conference. 

 I think the President picked Pitney in order to show the level and flavor of the White House's monitoring of the ongoing tumult in Iran.&… Read full post »

I think it is disingenuous to pretend that people's life experiences do not inform the decisions they make, whether those decisions are about what car to buy or if the Constitution provides women with the right to abortion.  I also think it is disingenuous to say that women and men are… Read full post »

Listening to the howls of some on the left about Obama's centrist cabinet appointments, I've come to some conclusions:

 First, it seems like some of these lefties weren't listening to the President-elect during the last few months of the campaign.  By the time it became clear that he'd sec… Read full post »

When we woke up
Our right wheel was drifting over the right line
Onto the road's shoulder.
Pebbles, kicked up by the turning tire,
Were striking the undercarriage,
Their pinging and cracking
Warned us of the ditch on the… Read full post »

I work in Chelsea in a building that overlooks the Javits Center.  Fairly often, I'd say at least once a week, I see a massive police convoy speeding away from Javits down the West Side Highway or 11th Avenue.    Each of these convoys average about 30 cars.  A few times, ther… Read full post »

The passage of Proposition 8 in California has further reinforced my belief that we need a new way of thinking about and institutionalizing unions between consenting adults.  It seems that conservative voters supported this proposition because, in their minds, it protected "traditional" marriage… Read full post »