Conversion: L'Chaim Editor's note: Mr. Williams was in frigid Colorado last week tending to matters that matter. This is a column he wrote in 2007. We're rerunning it because we think it's special. We hope you feel the same way. My grandfather, Walter Nash, sat straight in the saddle on his quarter horse, Cherokee, watching me become a Jew last Saturday night. Full Story
Barack Obama: Steady as she goes Change has rarely looked so much like continuity. Barack Obama's leftward positioning and achingly idealistic rhetoric in the Democratic primaries harkened back to George McGovern or Robert Kennedy. His personnel choices during the transition instead recall Michael Dukakis, the Massachusetts technocrat who notoriously ran on competence. Full Story
While Lee County's economy continues to slide faster toward oblivion, it is time for bold thinking and fast action. Both are rarities in public life; nevertheless, here is one outside of the box plan to get the ideas rolling in a new direction. Full Story
Even though pirates are accused of being hard of heart, the real essential nature of the pirate is a profound love of the fuzzy. The meaning of the word fuzzy is fuzzy. The word can refer to both those wonderfully warm sentimental feelings and to a lack of clarity. The fuzzy word fuzzy originates from the Low German word which means loose or spongy. Full Story
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