Have to say I love the idea of a black, Latino or Jewish pope. Read why that’s a possibility in this Slate article. Maybe it that happens, US presidents will follow.

Just learned that our sister paper, The Willamette Week, in Portland, Ore., won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. You can learn more about that at AAN’s websiteI am expecting any day now to win[…]

The Nation has an article today calledDemocrat Killer that makes the argument that the Democrats could have won in NM in 2004 were it not for the gun issue, and goes on to talk about[…]

Not to be all whiny, but Annual Manual leaves very little time for me to do write, think or do much of anything. I’m looking at the next few weekends slaving at my desk, my[…]

What’s here? Well, let’s see. More snow (thrilling). This week’s SFR (a must-read story by Zelie Pollon about what it’s been like reporting on the war in Iraq. If the CNN reporters are at one[…]