Tad's Happy Funtime

I was not a "child of the '60's" by any stretch of the imagination. My exposure to the 1960s was solely through the fi...

The Washington Post has this column discussing nine ideas for "fixing" our political problems. First among the ideas they say Won...

Someone on the radio was pleading his case to change public policy tonight, and while I can't quite recall the topic, I remember thinkin...

I have many friends from across the political spectrum who do not share my point of view on the U.S. economy these days.  Unfortunately, i...

I have no doubt that the city of  New York  has changed considerably in the nearly 25 years since Lou Reed recorded his album of songs abo...

( Originally writtern Tuesday, September 12, 2006; the events described would have taken place in the early 1980s. ) This will come as a s...

You may have noticed a trend in my recent posts. I don't consider myself an activist or "evangelical atheist," but circumstanc...