Jonah’s first soccer game

Jonah played his first “organized” soccer game on Saturday. (If you’ve seen kiddy soccer, you know why the word organized is in quotes.) He played better than I anticipated. In fact, at the risk of sounding like one of those dads who is too...

Until they repudiate torture…

…the GOP and the right-wing Christianists have endorsed the methods of the Nazis, the Communist Chinese, and the Stalin-era Soviet Union. That there is some bedfellows, and it tells the rest of us all we need to know when it comes time to vote.

Incontrovertible

After years of lies, it is now incontrovertible that the US employed torture in it’s so-called “war on terror.” I am stunned that there would be defenders of this coverup, and I am frankly appalled that many who I otherwise respect are so...

Half right

Although you can argue about the overall justice of the verdicts, the Nuremberg Nazi trials established this legal principle for Western Civilization: “The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from...