A million things are happening, yet I am sad to distraction over the death of one actor. Quite human, Mr. Spock would say, and quite illogical. The man who brought Spock to life, Leonard Nimoy, died today. He played one…
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At the beginning of this month, I responded with abhorrence to the murders of the Charlie Hebdo artists by jihadis and asked whether Islam has a fundamental tendency toward violence that Christianity does not. In one of those wonderful moments…
South Dakota's Congressional delegation may be sticking in the ideological mud on lifting the failed embargo on Cuba, but sensible rural politicians are not. The new U.S. Agricultural Coalition for Cuba has the support of some rural Democrats and Republicans:…
My rage only grows at the murder of cartoonists, artists armed only with wit, by masked gunmen shouting Islamic slogans in Paris today. The bursting slogan, Je suis Charlie, says "I am Charlie." If you speak, if you question, if…
No matter how oppressed some of us may feel by the sometimes radical statements and legislation of South Dakota's Christian fundamentalists, let us remember that our Christian friends don't kill us. Gunmen attacked the Paris headquarters of French satirical weekly…
When I've helped people do their income taxes, I've pointed to the total tax (Line 63 on this year's 1040) and said, "That's your price for being an American." But what if taxes worked the other way? What if the…
If you're conservative, you've got to keep people scared of something. Conservative Gordon Howie is trying to bring back the Red Scare, but in logic that can only come from the far right wing, the real bogeyman is not Vladimir…
Let's be clear from the start, I'm just making a sandwich, not exercising reproductive choice. I contributed to the oppression of the proletariat yesterday by shopping for groceries at Walmart. I picked up some salami, another moral offense. In the…