It takes Eric, the mail carrier, an hour and a half each way to drive to work. He wishes he could instead spend that time with his family, and even though the drive is becoming expensive given the price of gas, he considers himself lucky. There are 6 people in the station where he works…

I was reading Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot and had reached a place when I thought I ought to give up the book when I came upon the phrase, the impudence of ignorance, words used to describe a character. I perked up. I’d just been listening to some commentary about Representative Akin’s statements on rape and abortion.…

The Olympics are over yet still fresh enough for us to be reflective. It’s impossible not to be impressed by the feats one witnessed, by the records that were set, by the achievements of the human body doing things that weren’t thought possible. Each time a record is set, the bar is that much higher,…