Elections, the pundits are fond of saying, have consequences. This last one was no different. Did we really not understand what we’d be getting, when, in our frustration with the slow recovery and the inability of the Democrats to use their power, we swept the Republicans in? Had we forgotten the radical agenda that now [...]

The neocons, ever willing to read confirmation of their world view in the tealeaves, are now trying mightily to give George W. Bush the credit for the events in Tunisia and Egypt. The script reads something like this: we ridiculed Bush as naive for believing that democratic transformation was possible in the Mideast, but he [...]

The Obama administration is helping negotiate the terms of Egyptian President Mubarak’s resignation. While we in this country might see this as advancing democracy in the Arab world, Israel is evidently under no such illusions. The Jewish State has witnessed the catastrophic result of so-called democratic elections in the Mideast with something less than joy. [...]

Readers commenting on my blog postings recently repeated two phrases that I hear a lot these days, sayings that have always seemed absurd to me in their simplicity and in their disregard for the way a society actually functions. You want ME to pay for YOUR healthcare? This is one of those stock questions that [...]

Nikita Krushchev used to tell this joke about himself: a man was arrested for running through Red Square shouting, “Krushchev is an idiot! Krushchev is an idiot!” He was sentenced to 33 years in Siberia, 3 for insulting the Party Secretary, and 30 for revealing a state secret. I received an email a few days [...]

If ever there was a time for a little self-reflection, for some soul searching, as Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said, it is now. So far, pretty much everyone seems to think  that the other guy needs some serious introspection, but that his or her own soul is just fine, thank you. So here goes [...]

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Thanks to my son, Gabe, who spent long hours patiently helping his Luddite Dad navigate the brave new world of web design, the renovation of Edsteinink.com is almost complete. It features a new, cleaner look and some cool new features that make it easier to follow on Facebook, Twitter. The email link that allows you [...]

Last week the Denver Post published an obituary for Roger Kotoske, the teacher of the first art class I took in college. I arrived at the University of Denver that fall with an optimisitic and wholly unrealistic notion that I was an artist, based on my limited experiences as a kid who could draw a [...]

Yesterday’s midterm election was nothing short of a catastrophe for the Democratic party. The combination of the worst economy since the Great Depression, a  jobless rate stuck at 10%, a president and a majority party unable to make a coherent case for their agenda or to articulate their vision, and the surprising uprising of the [...]