A spoonful of sugar
If you read this column, you're probably a voter, and thus you're a political creature, like I am. And if you read it regularly, you may realize that everything I've written is political, at least in some way - whether the subject has been tragic or comic, or the writing has been sensible or nonsensical. Full Story
The curse of Clintonism
It is the curse of Clintonism that it is associated with the Clintons. A centrist-oriented Democratic politics that is pragmatic and economically literate is better than the alternatives: a fluffy politics of hope (Barack Obama) and angry politics of anti-corporate zeal (John Edwards). At least on paper. Full Story
Illegal Spanish
GUEST OPINION
From small time to over the hill, the conservative punditocracy is worried, very worried, that Spanish is taking over. Pretty mad about it, too. "I don't know about you, but I do a slow burn when I get a recorded telephone message telling me to 'Press 1 for English,'" writes Dot Ward of Madison, Miss., in her local newspaper's reader blog. Full Story
MOMENTS IN TIME
• On Jan. 10, 1961, Dashiell Hammett, author of "The Maltese Falcon," dies. The novel was filmed three times: once in 1931; once in 1936 under the title "Satan Met a Lady," starring Bette Davis; and again in 1941, starring Humphrey Bogart. Full Story
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