So my wife lost her Qwest cell phone while on a trip in Las Vegas. No biggie, she immediately called me, and I immediately called Qwest to have the phone suspended, so that if anyone found it, we wouldn’t get billed for the calls. The service guy was very polite, and he suspended the phone. [...]

The family and I are moving to Massachusetts. We’ve never lived there before, any of us. To compound the potential dissonance, I’m from Georgia, and have never lived north of the Mason-Dixon (living in Seattle doesn’t count: it’s neither North nor South, it’s West).

So I have zero idea why America thinks what it does, pretty much ever. I have no clue why people vote for Republicans who claim to be compassionate, but who somehow always end up on the “the rich do better while the poor do worse” side of every issue. It’s an astonishing coincidence, really. I [...]

So the GOP has relatively unfettered control of the US government now. Given the benignly liberal nature of the majority of Americans, we somehow have hit upon a loathesome combination of Democrat apathy and Republican fervor, ensuring that the party that has a repressive social agenda has as much ability as possible to foist it [...]