A couple on the trail, roughly my age, walking three sweet faced golden retrievers. They’re headed into town as I’m headed out and as we pass, the woman says, “You were in Child’s Christmas in Wales!’” That’s a show I did at Warehouse in 2004. “We loved it!” she says. Thank you, thank you, I say, and […]
A Princeton University study published in 2014 knocks the notion of American representative democracy right on its star-spangled ass. Researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page looked at 1,779 policy-related public opinion surveys conducted between 1981 and 2002, then compared the results of those surveys with policies enacted during the same period. They wanted to find out whether our lawmakers make law […]
