Menhaden are small, bony, oily fish, members of the herring family. Most people would go out of their way to avoid eating them. (Some old Germans, like my dad, eat them pickled on New Year’s Eve. Supposed to bring good luck.) The rest of us don’t eat menhaden, except when we do. Oil from menhaden […]

In 1963, with the collaboration of the Delaware Highway Patrol, producers for the television program “Candid Camera” set up on the Pennsylvania-Delaware border a sawhorse with a sign on it that said, “Delaware is Closed Today.” A man, dressed in what vaguely looked like a uniform, told drivers Delaware was closed for repairs and that […]

New York Times reporter Judith Miller is in a federal jail cell in Alexandria, Virginia. She may be there for up to four months for refusing to answer special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s questions about her confidential sources in the Valerie Plame leak case. Good for Judith Miller, sort of. More on that later. Time magazine […]

Although polls show Americans’ support for the war in Iraq is slipping, the public is not of one mind. Some oppose the war, some support it; many have mixed feelings. Just as soldiers in combat fight for each other and not for an ideology or a political position, there are issues on the home front […]