The writers' strike is very important. If it does not end there will be consequences - perhaps far reaching. If I understand it correctly, the writers' strike portends an end to new television programming - a stop to our endless feed of narrative pablum. The hum of television won't be shut off, but its key will change. Without writers entertaining us, networks will have nothing to show except reruns and news. I repeat: without the writers to entertain us, the networks will have nothing to ai...

It's been ringing loud and clear in many threads of late that reality is concrete, it is what it is, and it's unalterable by the power of thought or belief. If all of this is true, then where is the harm in any person choosing - I dare to say it - happiness? Why are some of us so disturbed by others' whole-hearted, whole-minded pursuit of happiness? Was this not one of the self-evident truths our forefathers immortalized in our national Constitution? We hold these truths to be self-eviden...