United States Archives

September 11, 2025 Is the Ending of The Night Girl too Optimistic?
March 24, 2025 Even More Podcast Attention
February 14, 2025 The True Patriots
September 14, 2024 "They're (Not) Eating the Dogs in Springfield!" (or, News Flash: Trump and his supporters are racist!)
June 25, 2022 Yesterday
January 7, 2021 The Year of Hindsight
November 9, 2020 The Last Four Years
November 5, 2020 The Most Awkward Car Trip Across America
November 4, 2020 Mauve America
March 13, 2020 Remarkable Events
August 22, 2017 On Facing the News
January 28, 2017 Outrage Overload
November 8, 2016 When Doves Cry
October 21, 2016 Oculus
October 18, 2016 How Stupid People Threaten the World
September 11, 2016 Remembering
August 12, 2016 Two Steps Forward...
August 10, 2016 The Rise of Libertarianism
June 16, 2016 The Attack of the Narratives
June 14, 2016 Marijuana is Legal in Oregon
February 4, 2016 Making Method Out of the US Primary Madness
March 31, 2015 Arkansas Passes Law to Put Humidifiers and Dehumidifiers in the Same Room to Let Them Duke it Out.
March 16, 2014 The Fall of Fred Phelps
December 9, 2013 The Hammer to Crack the Peanut
October 7, 2013 It's the Tea Party Republicans' Fault
January 6, 2013 The Story of the Mall that Committed Suicide
December 14, 2012 The Insanity Behind the Gun
November 7, 2012 Democracy is Coming to the USA
September 26, 2012 You're Flying Mitt Air
March 28, 2012 A Question of Marketing
February 21, 2012 News You Do Not Want to Print...
August 10, 2011 The Media Biases Towards Fear
January 27, 2011 Catapults Brought Into War on Drugs
January 10, 2011 On the Attempted Assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords
March 23, 2010 What They Have. What We Have. What They Could Have
March 21, 2010 Yes, You Did
January 15, 2010 The Unchristians, Part 2
December 19, 2009 Small Observations on America
December 3, 2009 On a Failure of School Officials
November 27, 2009 Artificial Lightning in Philadelphia
September 21, 2009 Handouts to Me is My Right. Handouts to Other People is Wonton Socialism.
August 12, 2009 Stupidity in the Health Care Debate
August 2, 2009 Regional Differences
July 3, 2009 The McDonalds in Bronzeville
February 25, 2009 The Upside of Down
February 24, 2009 Rick Santelli Thinks Americans are Losers
February 23, 2009 Quick Hits - February 23
January 20, 2009 The Year of the Red Jelly Bean
November 4, 2008 Vivian's third birthday and Halloween
October 27, 2008 Canadians Pay Lower Income Taxes Than Americans
September 29, 2008 Quick Hits -- September 29
September 3, 2008 Gutter Politics and Teenage Sexuality
August 31, 2008 Ye Olde Parties: 307
The Greens: 1
August 30, 2008 Quick Hits -- August 30
August 13, 2008 Our Sanctimonious Government
July 29, 2008 On Civility and Murder
July 25, 2008 The New Conservative Federal Deficit Begins?
July 4, 2008 Travel Daze
June 4, 2008 Whither Hillary?
May 9, 2008 If I Were Hillary Clinton...
March 12, 2008 And the Walls Came Tumbling Down
February 23, 2008 Democracy Walks
February 9, 2008 Nebraskans Now Know What Iowans Feel Like; South Dakotans Still Jealous
February 8, 2008 Hmm...
February 7, 2008 Remembering the Canary
February 6, 2008 I am an Obama Man
January 16, 2008 The Protest Process
November 4, 2007 The Fall of Fred Phelps?
October 12, 2007 The Quintessence of Political Vitriol
May 31, 2007 Night Girl: 44,608
Plain Kate: 44,611
May 3, 2007 The Next Waco or Jonestown?
April 20, 2007 There is Writing, and then there is *Writing*
March 31, 2007 I'm Just Talking About Washington, Man!
March 27, 2007 The Real DC?
March 26, 2007 The Icons of Washington
March 23, 2007 Hello Pennsylvania, Hello Maryland
March 17, 2007 When Chicago is Irish
December 17, 2006 What War on Christmas?
December 13, 2006 The Marketplace of Ideas Sells us Lemons
November 20, 2006 A Bit of Blog Criticism...
November 9, 2006 A Bad Month for Conservatives
October 29, 2006 Paul Burgess Hates Americans
May 19, 2006 The Court Jesters Speak the Truth
May 1, 2006 Mayday! Mayday! (Quick Hits for May 1st)
March 22, 2006 Writing News
January 17, 2006 Quick Hits - January 17
November 13, 2005 The UnChristians
November 8, 2005 Another to the List of People Whose Hand I Want to Shake
November 1, 2005 Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004)
October 11, 2005 Driving Advice
September 22, 2005 Praying for Texas
September 20, 2005 A Canadian Blogger in Virtual Texas
September 17, 2005 The Battle of New Orleans
September 12, 2005 You're Welcome
September 6, 2005 Uh, Oh.
September 5, 2005 When the Saints Go Marching In
September 3, 2005 Remembering Hurricane Juan
September 2, 2005 We are Powerless in the Face of Nature
August 29, 2005 Fingers Crossed
August 28, 2005 Pray For New Orleans
August 14, 2005 Milk: It Does Bilingualism Good
August 2, 2005 On the Arrest of Mark Emery
July 29, 2005 The War is Over. Let the Struggle Begin.
July 22, 2005 Quick Hits, Quick Comments
July 6, 2005 Love is Blindness
July 4, 2005 Respect the Flag. Allow it to be Burnt.
July 1, 2005 The Beauty of America is in its Food
May 31, 2005 Late Night
March 23, 2005 Where the Bough Breaks (Libertarians vs. Social Conservatives)
January 11, 2005 Know Your Opposition
January 3, 2005 Eating in America ("I [don't] feel [so] good!").
December 19, 2004 The Logic of Intolerance
December 16, 2004 Scott Peterson and the American Media
December 9, 2004 Summing Up Canada/US Relations
December 4, 2004 Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
December 2, 2004 Fox News: Utterly Without Merit
December 1, 2004 Who is the Greatest American?
November 5, 2004 Is This the New Face of the Daleks?
November 4, 2004 New Look?
November 3, 2004 Towards a National Reconciliation
November 2, 2004 Hope For Weston
October 30, 2004 How Boston Reversed the Curse?
October 29, 2004 Kent Mansley, I Work For The Government...
October 23, 2004 Crossfire Gets Blown Away
October 20, 2004 Carnival of the Vanities CIX
October 19, 2004 Canada's Surprising Prosperity III:
Is Taxing Consumption Key?
October 17, 2004 Canada's Surprising Prosperity II:
Are Balanced Budgets More Important than Tax Cuts?
October 16, 2004 Canada's Surprising Prosperity: What's Our Secret?
October 13, 2004 Americans Need to Take a Deep Breath II
October 11, 2004 Americans Need to Take a Deep Breath
October 10, 2004 A Sample of Things I Didn't Know
October 9, 2004 "OCAP Setting a Poor Example"
October 1, 2004 Surprise! It Changed Nothing.
September 15, 2004 Welcome to the Echo Chamber
September 11, 2004 The Sadness of Engineers is Knowledge
September 5, 2004 Movable Type 3.1 Reviewed
September 4, 2004 Intriguing
August 31, 2004 God Is On No One's Side in Politics
August 30, 2004 Memo to FEMA
August 29, 2004 And the Secret Code to Disable the Defence Shield Is... Is... 1-2-3-4-5
August 23, 2004 I Predict We're About One Month From the Hair-Pulling, Eye Gouging Stage of the American Election
August 20, 2004 We Have Met the Enemy And He Is...
August 15, 2004 Four More Years?
August 11, 2004 As If the United States Doesn't Have Enough to Worry About...
July 31, 2004 Another Thought on Kerry's Acceptance Speech
July 30, 2004 The Mechanics of Democracy
July 25, 2004 D'Oh!
July 17, 2004 The Glorious Paradox that is America
July 13, 2004 Before We Were Interrupted...
June 18, 2004 Blind Faith in the Face of Facts
June 14, 2004 Some Speech is Freer than Others
May 25, 2004 It Makes You Want to Shake Someone
May 21, 2004 Red Room! Red Room!
May 7, 2004 Why the Bush Administration Deserves Defeat V
May 4, 2004 Why the Bush Administration Deserves Defeat IV
May 2, 2004 Why the Bush Administration Deserves Defeat III
April 30, 2004 Why the Bush Administration Deserves Defeat II - Polarizing America
April 28, 2004 Why the Bush Administration Deserves Defeat
March 13, 2004 Americans Discover Curling
February 24, 2004 Line of the Night
January 21, 2004 How Dewey Defeated Truman
January 5, 2004 New Year Resolutionaries
January 4, 2004 Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream...
December 31, 2003 Farewell 2003
November 29, 2003 A Night on the Town
November 19, 2003 What Friends Are For
October 23, 2003 Tech Drooling and More
October 9, 2003 Juliet is Bleeding
October 8, 2003 Izzy Asper Dead at 71
September 28, 2003 Fear of Dishevelled Strangers
September 15, 2003 Reptilian Kitten-Eaters are People Too!
September 12, 2003 The Moment I Realized I'd Left Reality and Was Now a Resident of Cloudcookooland III
September 11, 2003 Two Years Ago Today
September 9, 2003 Notes on my Desk
September 6, 2003 The Horror of McDonalds in New Orleans
August 27, 2003 Did they Listen to my Review?
August 24, 2003 Random Points for August 24
March 14, 2003 Coming Out of the Deep Freeze
January 7, 2003 Hoo Boy, Our New Moron:
December 13, 2002 If You Think Smoking is Hazardous to Your Health...
December 3, 2002 We're All a Bunch of Morons!!
October 8, 2002 Do You Know What You Are Doing?
October 1, 2002 Bush and the Remnants of Lili
September 11, 2002 I remember.
July 8, 2002 In Ann Arbor, Now
July 1, 2002 Happy 135th Birthday, Canada
May 12, 2002 This Place is Cursed! No, really, it is!