I’ve been wondering about the Ayers attack for months - I knew that the Republicans would try to make something out of nothing no matter what, especially if things started to look bleak for them. I thought this before McCain hired the Karl Rove-Lee Atwater Ice Capade Singers as his entire campaign brain, and after [...]

Diana and I started talking about having children about a year and a half ago, and I knew we had moved from the realm of dreamy ponderance and into the area of serious business when the conversation about names came up. Names are secret things, full of power. When you start thinking about a future [...]