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Here’s a phrase for your meditations: “an acceptable level of violence.” The President said it. I heard him say it […]

I was watching televison this morning and they were showing an interview with the man who sold Seung-Hui Cho one

Opponents of gun control, including the National Rifle Association, argue that the person who owns a gun is safer. Here’s

I accuse George W. Bush of being an accomplice to murder.I accuse the members of Congress who have failed to

Don Imus may have gotten the most attention for mis-speaking last week, but I found more enjoyment in the small

There is probably no world without monsters in it. In Beowulf’s world, Grendel and his mother had been seen skulking

When I was growing up, if I wanted a book from the library, I went to the library, found the

Beowulf had no television. But compared to television, Grendel was easy. How can you slay the one-eyed monster? How many

By the time I wrote my senior thesis in college, I had my first typewriter. I couldn’t touch type so

There was a time when we could dismiss stories of monsters as the myths of an unenlightened age. Even if