By Bob Gaydos
Since the GOP debt-limit cliff dive, survivors have continued to display self-destructive instincts, in ways both ridiculous and sublime.

By Michael Kaufman
When I was a kid I often tried copying Stan Musial’s unique batting stance. So what was a kid who rooted for the Dodgers doing copying the stance of a player for the St. Louis Cardinals? It was because he was Stan the Man.

By Jeffrey Page
You can’t libel the dead, but you can come pretty close.

By Carrie Jacobson
After a terrible weekend in Florida, the thought of a dog show seems sunny indeed

By Bob Gaydos
If the accepted wisdom proves to be correct and a conservative European cardinal is elected as the new pope, nothing will change in the Roman Catholic Church. That would be sad.

By Jeffrey Page
The Boy Scouts have had 103 years to do something about their odious anti-gay bias, but have spent the time ignoring the matter.

By Bob Gaydos
As support for gun control measures have gained strength in the wake of the ghastly shooting in Newtown, Conn., the arguments against more restrictions have grown increasingly strident and outrageous by some elements of the NRA.

By Michael Kaufman
I used to own a gun. I thought I needed it for protection against criminals, anti-Semites, racists and the coming of fascism. It was also my right to have under the Second Amendment.

By Emily Theroux
The (Hoping You’re) Gullible Old Party reduces its existential impasse to mere semantics.

By Jeffrey Page
A year on probation for binding and blindfolding two kids and leaving them in a locked car in a Walmart lot.