If you never read another article on politics and foreign policy, then please read this one. The excerpt I’m going to quote here is attributed in the article to “an unnamed `senior advisor’ to President Bush:” The aide said that guys like me [i.e., reporters and commentators] were ‘in what we call the reality-based community,’ [...]

Contrary to what the keyboard pounding pundits have been bleating at the top of their lungs since last November, a new Pew Research Center Survey shows that the Religious Right cannot be blamed for Bush’s re-election. It also punches holes in the meowing pessimist’s pet theory that the Democratic Party is losing support. Sorry Mr. [...]

So, what does surrender have to do with politics and current affairs, you might ask? Everything! One of the most basic lessons Machiavelli tried to teach was that political power extends to the rulers from the people, not the other way around. Though even today it is quite common to hear commentators and politicians refer [...]

This was sent to me by a helpful friend this morning. I am now completely enlightened. Now I know why men don’t cry at movies, care about weight gain, know when anyone else is upset, and/or crave chocolate. The answer was so obvious, the whole time. It’s semen! [Gallup's] team divided 293 female students into [...]

This is the final entry in our Sunday Talk Blog for May 15th. It’s too bad that we didn’t have the participation we might have liked for this edition, but the discussion on these issues can, and will go on here and elsewhere. I’ve been scanning the breaking news on the growing condemnation of US [...]

Allow me a moment to rebut, or perhaps clarify my point about this blog sounding like yet another liberal voice in the chorus. The problem here is basically one of semantics. But in today’s political climate, I think the semantics are important. The nation has gotten itself into a partisan, uncompromising mess where special interest [...]

Michael said the previous STB post: Me thinks [sic] the Metaphors For Life Blog is in danger of sounding like yet another liberal voice in the chorus. Understandable, given the Neo-Con’s rather transparent (and dangerous) agenda. But it would be unfortunate. I have to quibble with this statment a bit. In my opinion, it’s not [...]

Me thinks the Metaphors For Life Blog is in danger of sounding like yet another liberal voice in the chorus. Understandable, given the Neo-Con’s rather transparent (and dangerous) agenda. But it would be unfortunate. A more conservative voice than former presidential candidate and columnist Pat Buchanan you’d be hard pressed to find. But he’s been [...]

My grandmother used to say “The truth will out.” She was one of the few die-hard Democrats in our family, and incredibly out-spoken in her criticisms of Republican demagoguery. Never afraid to call a spade a spade, I remember her on occasion also tearing into leading Democrats when in her opinion they warranted it. She [...]

What I find most intriguing about these new revelations is how it seems the tables have turned in the American body politic. Walking the halls of Washington twenty years ago, it was the Democrats that whiffed heavily of "daddy knows best" arrogance. It was the Democrats who knew better than we (poor wittle citizens) did [...]