Asphalt giving up     the creepy retail     drink dissolving,     traffic noise pa-     thetically dis-     persed....

    Yemen     

           Now there is waged a war        of spectacles, and it is        always urgent to extin-        guish  the alien visi...

Imagine Rick Santorum  or poor Joe McCarthy. Man spends his whole Senate career gaining renown for his genius, and someone comes a- l...

I'd never actu- ally heard this guy before, but his anguished swoon on C-SPAN came as plan- gently famil- iar pathology, twiste...

Today's provocatively predictable perorations by yet another pretender to the Presidency have brought to mind the wholesome rôle of ...

  How easy it sometimes   is, these days, to un-   derstand the fashion-   able disdain for infor-   mation. The tidier the   p...

  And if I touch aright that quiet tone,    That soothing truth that shadows forth their own,   Then many a year shall grow in after...