Lately I’ve had some good natured sparring with some of my friends over the fact that Barack Obama picked Joe Biden to be his running mate. I have some problems with Biden myself, because I wasn’t very interested in seeing yet another old white guy sent to Washington. But I’ve been annoyed at the hand-wringing [...]

Having a bad day. One of those days when you’re at a loss to put it into words. Not that anyone would be surprised to hear me say something like this, but I did something impulsive. Something that I regret now. Deeply. Not so much that I hurt anyone. I didn’t. Far from it. But [...]