Lee Goodman

The sound of their shovels, the labored breathing as they dig, the notes of another thrush coming from the woods -- it all comes together.

OPINION: Maybe not too many people noticed that James Taylor skipped part of his song during President Obama's second inauguration, but the omitted lines seem significant, especially to someone who lived through the tumult of the 1960s.

In her editorial against Obama's cap and trade proposal in The Washington Post, Gov. Palin rolled out every device in the ultra-right arsenal of unsubstantiated declarations and sloppy logic.