Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr! I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by […]

Bowing to peer pressure (and succumbing to the indefinable allure of Adam Brody), I began my catch-up marathon viewing of ‘The O.C.’ last night, starting with episodes 1 & 2. I take it as an excellent sign that my only real complaint so far is that in episode one, when Marissa passes out drunk, both […]