John McCain, for whom I save a warm spot in my heart because of his work on climate change, gave an surprisingly weak victory speech tonight.  There were three major problems with the speech. First, the audience hardly saw his eyes.  How can someone who has been a politician for so long give one of [...]

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The other night Barack Obama won in Iowa.  But to my mind that wasn’t the real story of the night.  What moved me was his victory speech. A familiar and well deserved lament about American politics is that the substance has disappeared, and has been replaced by opinion polls and focus groups.  Speeches sound as [...]

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Big night in politics and there are a lot of different ways to read what happened.  What I took away from the result comes from how reality seems to be converging with Hollywood.   My memory is a bit fuzzy but let me see if I can’t paint the picture… On the Democractic side, a [...]

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Huckabee just turned the political world upside down.  And there’s no way that the Republican party is happy about it. The candidate who represents vehement anti-gay sentiment, who wanted to quarantine AIDs patients, and who will actually take action to criminalize abortion just won the Iowa Caucuses. The Republicans have held their coalition together by [...]

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