Jim Leff's Slog

Nationalism is always a noble-seeming mask for xenophobia.  Show me someone who loves "Us", and I'll show you someone who ha...

In the article Explaining Centrism/Moderation , I described partisan zeal as a sort of delusion. No candidate will bring us to the promised ...

So here's my Sandy story. Where I live things weren't too bad. Lots of downed trees, no one has power, but there's been no flood...

When the storm gets close, crack open a window and take a breath. Hurricanes always smell like the Caribbean. A lot of the forecasting con...

I once wrote about how I reached the conclusion, after much study, that ....there's no lastingly viable political system. In the long r...

I've been trying to make pasta for years, always failing miserably. I asked for help on Chowhound once, but everyone kept trying to iro...

I'm replaying the following because 1. I've added photos, and 2. I'm so thrilled with this solution. There are several restaur...

Here's a fascinating tale. Amazon closed her account, wiped her Kindle (books she'd paid for!), and won't say why. My 1st tho...

I agree with the left that unless effort's made to include minorities in realms where prejudice historically has blocked their entrance...

My mind was a little blown by Amazon's list of top-rated DVDs . #1 doesn't surprise me. "Food Production Systems for a Backya...