I’ll admit to being embarrassingly psyched about the beginning of the college basketball season; I spent much of what should’ve been a work day earlier this week alternating between non-paying writing work (good for me) and college basketball games between Penn and Drexel and Centenary a...

For most of us, being impersonated isn’t that big a risk. Well, outside of identity theft, but someone in Eastern Europe trying to buy a bunch of gaudy jewelry online using my credit card doesn’t really seem like impersonation. Also, the joke’s on you, Miroslav, because my credit l...

Today is the International Transgender Day of Remembrance, an appropriate occasion to consider the profound stupidity of former Governor Mike Huckabee’s claim that there hasn’t been enough violence visited on our community yet. It’s a little hard to believe that he doesn’t kn...

I haven't been promoting anything I write on Newspaper Tree here on this blog in a while.  I hate shameless self promotion.  I think it creates a false sense of interest in a person's efforts.  I measure my success by the clicks. By the people who took the time to find my w...

Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Eksi Ekso : "Killing Texas" [mp3] from I Am Your Bastard Wings other Eksi Ekso posts at Largehearted Boy Drive-By Truckers : 2008-11-11, Toronto [mp3,ogg,flac] "Marry Me" [mp3] other Drive-By Truckers posts at Largehearted Boy Kate Gaffney : 2008-11-14, Winters ...

Download | Play    Download | Play [H/t Heather] I guess Lou Dobbs and Co. are giving up their populist "we're for the working class" pose, because yesterday Republican Rep. Darrell Issa appeared on the Dobbs program (with Kitty Pilgrim sitting in) to pile on after Mitt Romney's NYT o...

Image: The Fail Whale. Jesus Fish for the 21st century? Recently I asked readers to consider what a Christian creed would look like if we were writing it in the context of the globalized pluralistic Church of the 21st century. Creeds normally arise out of doubt or as a defense against heresy. In oth...

[Note: I have had little time to write or breathe in recent days. But I just completed the reflection below. Written for another purpose, I thought those few of you who read my scribblings might find it useful in your preparations as, too soon, Advent and Christmas come.] Love your poverty The grayn...

It seems like only yesterday my friends and I were winding up at Blondies on the Avenue after a hard day at Cedarfest. Has Blondies really been gone 10 years now? Time flies when you rock and roll. In December, 2008 The Triple Rock, which took over the building and ultimately built it a sturdy and f...

The folks over at Pulse-Great Falls are ready for the holidays: It’s hard to believe, but the end of the year is fast approaching. Pulse will be hosting our holiday party again this year, so put it on your calendar now and we’ll see you in December! When: Friday, December 12 Time: 8:00 p...