Semi-coherent but original musings compiled for the new year by Michael McCusker. Also, from Jim Dott, "How Anna's Hummingbirds Conquered Winter." Finally, Colbert I King claims that there's "No resolutions for me."
Salman Rushdie earns the ultimate literary award: a politically and religiously motivated death sentence, in, "My Dinner with Salman Rushdie," written by Eugene Robinson....
Michael McCusker shares an essay he wrote about the role of media in an increasingly autocratic society.