You Don't Have to Yell

Depending on who you ask, the Second Amendment is either an anachronism from a time when most gun owners were farmers with muskets, or a clause that safeguards my right to walk into a Pizza Hut with an AK-47. Both pro and anti-gun activists are so far apart on this issue, there’s only one thing...

A few years back, I used to fly between Boston and Dublin, Ireland for work, and became intimately acquainted with Aer Lingus’ transatlantic in-flight service. They served a meal on the flight, which was either beef stroganoff or chicken curry. While I’m sure there were people on the plane who...

The phrase, "politics makes strange bedfellows" can be originally sourced back to William Shakespeare's The Tempest, when the character Trinculo seeks shelter from a storm under the cloak of Caliban, a character described as part man, part fish. While the line was actually modified from its...

As I write, CNN is currently hosting two nationally televised debates to determine which of the 70 some odd people who've thrown their hat in the ring to win the Democratic Presidential Nomination for 2020. There's also been a smattering of coverage about two long shot primary challenges to...

My grandmother, who came to the US from Ireland in the 1920s, had a story about taking my mom and her siblings into Boston to run some errands. There was a department store with a day care where you could drop off your kids for while you went shopping, and her plan was to bring them there. When my...