Author name: Chris

It’s been a good week for change. Counting down in Iraq, counting down at Guantanamo, putting a stop to torture. […]

The controversy over the choice of Rick Warren to offer prayer on Inauguration Day led me to look again at

I had an ex-mail exchange recently with someone abut the use of “Rev.” in relationship to my last name. It

In the November issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Stephen Pinker, a professor at Harvard, write a surprisingly stupid article saying

We live between two villages. It’s 4.5 miles down hill and east to Cornwall Bridge, 8 miles down hill and

In 1850, under pressure from the southern States, the Congress of the United States passed a “Fugitive Slave Act” which

’Twas the day after Christmas, the toys were all broken,There were no Merry Christmases still to be spoken;The great drifts

This global warming business is tricky. Maybe we need another name for it. The trend may be towards warmer, but

Another governor has been caught behaving badly. Why is this still news? In the last few years, we have seen

So after years of waiting, what it comes down to is that there are five men at Guantanamo who probably