The Press: What's It Good For?

"Absolutely Nothing."OK, that's a lyric for describing "war".But really, the press, the media, the reporting agency that informs and watches over the scurrilous and corrupt follies of the state and private enterprise.Even comedian-newscaster...

Agressive Obama: His Biggest Problem

Obama is getting aggressive, throwing down the gauntlet, you could say. He's talking tough to Congress, like a frustrated school teacher finally laying down the law, enforcing the rules that he had hurried through at the beginning of the year yet failed to...

"Shoulding All Over Themselves"

"This should work"."You should care.""I should think so.""Should" is quite a loaded word, one that permits people to hold on to the ideal while facing an unpleasant "real"."I should have done this."The nasty...

Madame Bovary and Ennui

What was Madame Bovary's problem?She was striving for something. She was striving.Flaubert's omniscient, ironical narrator diagnoses her as resistant to faith, whose mystery she refuses to submit to.The human mind rebels against what it cannot understand our...