Author: Pennywit

... begins with a single step. Or something like that. Originally, I was going to write today about the difficulty of adapting a newspaper's print edition to late-breaking news, …

My girlfriend, who is of Russian descent, tells me about a joke that went around Russia after the U.S. Embassy burned down in Moscow one year: The U.S. Embassy …

To listen to the rhetoric, the United States is either on the cusp of midwifing a modern Jeffersonian democracy in Iraq and the naysayers are potentially disloyal Americans who …

When I first heard that Fox News anchor/Rottweiler Bill O'Reilly and others were up in arms about the "war on Christmas," I was ready to pen an angry, hate-filled …

Below, Mary Katharine Ham notes that her local (read: national giant) cable company offers both Spanish and English as options on its tech-support line, rather than defaulting to English. …

In light of the current effort to replace the soon-to-retire Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, the judiciary has been on my mind lately. As I've thought about …

Writing in Slate, Edward Jay Epstein re-explains movie ratings and helpfully resummarizes what the Hollywood studios look for in movies. In short: Explicit, gory violence in a movie is …

Have you ever wondered if the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is more complicated than it appears on the surface? Take a look at this Washington Post Outlook piece, written by Aluf …

Those of you who follow liberal blogs might have noticed a recent contretemps over what role NARAL should assume in the coalition dedicated to liberal causes, pro-choice points of …

Greetings and salutations, Wizbangers! The soon-to-be-vacationing Kevin has asked me to step in and blog in his absence. Clearly, he feels that all of you could benefit from continued …