Jim Cunningham of The Examiner has written a pretty depressing list called "The Top 10 Political Train Wrecks of 2008"*. At number two, sandwiched right in between "A poke in the eye for gay rights&...

I was doing some Christmas/Hanukkah/First Amendment-loving secular end-of-year celebration shopping this afternoon when I walked past a rack of novelty fridge magnets outside a store. Should any of you be considering entering the lucrative and gl...

I went to the beach today. Let me be more specific. I went to a crowded beach today. And there, for a whole hour, I lay in the hot, bright midday sunlight the intensity and tinge of which is unique to a Sydney summer. I lay on the sand, did ...