One Beautiful Moment... Long Ago.

Writer Will Bevis remembers one perfect moment, long ago. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/27/786920/-One-Beautiful-Moment...-Long-Ago. With thanks to Merrily1000 of dailykos, who made a comment that helped me in my strugle to find just the right title.  

The Finger: What it is Like Getting Old in America.

Writer Will Bevis takes you on a trip to get "the finger," in America's Health System. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/24/785827/-The-Finger:-What-its-Like-Getting-Old-in-America

Republican Bobble-Heads: Daddy, Is News Like Cartoons for Adults?

Update: For a complete list of cartoon charachters who were NOT used in this story, but should have been, please go to the end of the story. After reading the story of course. But then, you knew that!) So I'm eating my chilli and cutting glances at the news, and there the...

Why I Rat. (With a Bonus Story About Viet Nam Bill. And April.)

It doesn't happen often anymore, but every so often someone will come up to me and say, "Hey, Will, I hear you like to "rat." And I'll immediately understand them, because I was born in the South, spent most of my life in the South, and probably have some relatives...

Red, White, and Blue Trash: America, Meet Your Next GA Senator

Well, it's happened again. Some white man living in Georgia had a recurring flashback and thought it was 1850 or 1950 and he could do anything he wanted to a black woman, and he would get no punishment for it, or just a slap on the wrist. And he was right. For the moment,...

enigmatic indian partition

In view of the Jaswant Singh’s recently released book, ‘Jinah; India, partition and independence’ the debate on the Jinah’s reinvented role in the partition goes unabated. While the eminent writers keep writing columns on the subject, following historical facts, I...

White Flight 2009: Another Church Makes a Run For it.

Writer's Note:  I added more to this story and spell checked it on another word processor then copied and pasted it to Nowpublic.com... and the story disappeared. Rather than retype the whole thing on their processor please click on the following link, which will take...

Threats Against the President...

THREATS AGAINST THE PRESIDENT: Are They Coming from Patriots or Idiots? What do you call it when you go to a meeting with your "enemy" and you take a gun? How can you call it anything but a threat. The gun implies that you have the power to kill your enemy, and that...

Democrats Say Sarah Palin NOT Born in U.S. - Can't Run in 2012!

Late breaking news!  In latetest development on birthing scandal, Democratic troublemakers have found a second cousin to Sarah Palin's great grandmothers dog, who says she was NOT born in AMERICA, but in Kingston, Jamaica, the possible love child of Bob Marley, the...