| Nov 21, 2011 | Food / FarmingThanksgiving is upon us. I once loved this holiday above all others — but no more. The day was an excuse for a gathering of the clan, without religious significance or pressure to buy everybody a useless present. It was essentially a festival of food. In my...
| Sep 19, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyAfter suffering through several un-presidential GOP debates, I’m struck by the amount of anti-woman rhetoric spewing from the candidates. Although none of them dares utter the W word — unless it’s part of the phrase “our men and women in...
| Apr 11, 2011 | Peace / SecurityWorld War II: the good and righteous war. We still celebrate in the 21st century the heroic success of the 16.2 million who fought in the last uncomplicated conflict. My dad, Arthur “Dutch” Schultz, a paratrooper with the elite 82nd Airborne Division, was...
| Mar 21, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyAt last, Newt Gingrich has come bucking out of the presidential chute, shouting “Yippie-ty-yi-yo, here I go!” On March 3, that grizzled old cowpoke working the far-right-wing corral of American politics declared that he’s raring to go for the...
