I’ve been having massive connectivity problems, getting knocked offline regularly. I’m giving up for now and plan to post later today.

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn has died. Solzhenitsyn was an unusually strong-minded and uncompromising man who looked like an Old Testament prophet or Captain Ahab, and acted somewhat like both. Rest in peace.

…what it means to question anything about the Obama campaign.

The Obama “dollar bill” remark wasn’t about race before it was about race. Getting dizzy, anyone?

There was a moderate earthquake in Los Angeles yesterday that was widely felt in the area, the strongest in more than a decade. And yet I wasn’t there. What does that odd statement mean?

Here’s a post I wrote about Obama, back when we were first getting acquainted with him. I’d hardly change a word. Subsequent events have only solidified my impression.