THE FULCRUM

Neil Gaiman, writer of the most sublimely frightening fiction, was asked recently what scared him. His answer is illuminating and thought p...

What if a well-known company were to release a new hammer to your local big-box hardware store? And what if that hammer proved to have a des...

I've read plenty of analyses of how the American conservative right captured the hearts and minds of the faithful. These have been mostl...

The media, especially those who claim to be experts in financial matters, like to say that the markets don't like "uncertainty,...

If you've visited here for long enough you know that I've occasionally posted photographs. Photography has become quite important in...

I borrowed most of the headline right off of the MSNBC site; but given Newt's recent comments and the general hatred on the right for a...

Dick Tufeld with The Robot I remember rushing home from school in the late 60's so that I could catch "Lost in Space" on ...

Conservatives are upset at the number of references to "fair" in the SOTU speech. "Life's not fair!" they claim. On ...

News of my demise is greatly exaggerated. The last time I wrote an "I'm back!" post, I really thought I'd be able to ...

A community center is not a mosque. Yet liberals have allowed the Tea Baggers and the rest of the xenophobes on the right to frame the discu...

This post on Tom Dispatch by Bill McKibben is worth the read. Why aren't more people enraged by the lack of progress on Global Warming...