Maverick Views

Thanks for stopping by Maverick Views. If you are looking for Alan Stewart Carl and his opinions, please visit Donklephant where Alan now w...

Annie tagged me with a wandering blog meme last week. I’m just now getting to it. The rules are simple. I link to Annie and then I reveal s...

I haven't been cross-posting anything I write for Donklephant. But I feel strongly about this topic and wanted to put my words up here a...

Last fall, amidst the kind of “well, what now” crisis of self us 33-year olds are good at, I decided to stop being so damn practical about m...

This story required me to write that headline before I saw anyone else pounce on the obvious. Maverick Views has really turned into a quali...

You've spent your evening feeding, bathing and tucking in the children and then relax to an episode of Myth Busters. And it's Friday...

I love it when science wins.

Here are my most recent political posts up at Donklephant: On the debasement of language in politics here . On Hillary Clinton’s chances of ...

I have high expectations for fiction. I want stories that are exceptionally well written, offering up a unique way with words as subtle and ...

This weekend I went to a wedding reception where the groom was Hindu and the bride was Muslim (the happy couple are both American born, thei...

Over the last couple of years I’ve come to realize that my children are growing up in a vastly different media world than the one in which I...

If you haven't been checking Donklephant, I have four posts up over there since yesterday. Here are the links. On McCain here . Briefly ...

By now you’ve probably heard of the locavore food movement, generally defined as only eating food grown or raised within a 100 mile radius ...

Here’s the news: Justin Gardner of Donklephant has invited me to become a fulltime writer for the site rather than just an occasional poster...

This snarky, funny as hell site has all the details on stuff white people like. My favorites? Standing still at concerts. Expensive sandwic...

Stephen Hayes of the Wall Street Journal recounts the criticisms of Ronald Reagan and notes the similarities to what people are saying abo...

Shay at Booker Rising calls me to task for my post on McCain and healthcare . But she misinterprets my viewpoint – which is probably becaus...

Yeah, I'm a John McCain guy, but I did endorse Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination and I stand by that. Want to know why? This n...

Michael Reynolds nails John McCain to the wall on the issue where he’s most vulnerable: healthcare. My number one reservation about McCain ...

In 2000, Ralph Nader shook up the race by highlighting a growing disaffection with the two-party system. In 2004 he wanted to see if what he...

In a column about the difficulties the Republicans find themselves in, Mike Rosen asserts : Two-thirds of voters may reliably support either...