The sun hit asphalt and made it sizzle. I can see the waves of heat coming up off the road, I can feel it seeping through my boots and baking my body up through my toes. Damn thing always seems straight up over me anyway. I must be stupid to be out here. Dumb. Why [...]

Talking to a million people is the loneliest thing. They sit you in a chair on an island, connected to the world by a rubber earpiece and a microphone. You sit there, for a long time, for forever, staring into a black hole and pretending that you’re good, you’re fine, that you’re ready to tell [...]

Toyota Recall — Editorial: Aside from the obvious – that Toyota will finally fix its vehicles – the long road that is Toyota’s trail of misery is good for other reasons, as well. First of all, it gives Jon Stewart of the Daily Show plenty of material with which to deflect viewers from the other trail of tears going on in DC, namely, the Democrats’ runaway trip down a dead-end street called health care.