The February issue of Intuition is out and I have two new articles in it.
Satire: What it is and how to write it
A meeting of minds

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“A series of pipes.”
My dad has been hosting his origami site at Geocities for the past several years. I spoke to him yesterday about acquiring a domain name and self hosting the site as Geocities—presently owned and operated by Yahoo—will close its electronic doors very soon. He will move from there to a self-hosted [...]

Here’s to your inevitable political downfall!
I read this article about the respective public spectacles over Michael Jackson and Sarah Palin and it got me thinking about the spectacle that became Sarah Palin last autumn during the American presidential elections and her present attention-grabbing efforts. Her untimely resignation from the Alaska gubernatorial seat should be [...]

Nothing gets in or out.
I had to go to the American Embassy in Cairo this morning. My passport still has five years left before it expires, but all of my visa pages have been used up. This is not necessarily from traveling a lot—traveling between EU countries now requires no passport control—but from living [...]

Liberation Theology for the 21st Century
I caught this article from the Christian Science monitor this morning on the trepidation of Arab states over reacting to the current situation in Iran. They cited the “voice of a disenfranchised [Iranian] people” as the mechanism for the current political and social unrest and that this is the biggest [...]

God Damned Right It’s Time
Well, if you haven’t voted already, since there seemed to be a great trend toward voting early or absentee—likely because Americans are leaving the United States like rats from a burning ship: it’s time.
The Economist finally published their endorsement for a U.S. Presidential candidate this week. I will let you guess [...]

Yah, I couldn’t believe it either.
I read this article this morning in which it is reported that former Bush administration crony Karl Rove indicates that he believes the current presidential candidates go too far in their negative ads.
I had to sniff my coffee to make sure that I hadn’t accidentally make myself a steaming [...]

An open letter to the state of Indiana
This blog has not yet endorsed a presidential candidate from the Democrat Party, and this blog will not endorse a presidential candidate from the Republican Party. Sorry, Republican readers. Some of my best friends are Republicans, I just can’t vote for one. Maybe we will discuss that one [...]

Is there anything he can’t do?

Thanks to Michael Fountain for bringing this gem to my attention. It is superb.
What will Obama do?
What would you like Barack Obama to do if he is elected President?

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I am not going to write about what is going on in Gaza right now, except to say that I believe it to be unjust. It would be considered unjust by the world community if it were happening anywhere else, to anyone else.
Rather, here are some of the thoughts of the people whose commentary [...]