Month: March 2005

Natural selection is often described as “survival of the fittest.”  But fittest is an adjective–what are the fittest things that are doing the surviving?  The knee-jerk answer most of the time will be...

Seymour Hersh spoke at Ithaca College (Ithaca NY) last night. SusanHu has asked me to post this here. Okay, per SusanHu’s request, I did take notes furiously. I’m not going to try to make sense of this, but will...

Democracy is a dish best served hot, it seems. Otherwise, it curdles and dries out and draws in on itself, like some mysterious thing left in the fridge too long. In my totally not-even-resembling-a-historian way, I’ve...

Reports Amy Goodman — whose hour-long broadcast today includes an exclusive, extensive interview with journalist Naomi Klein on the shooting of Giuliana Sgrena (Klein just interviewed Sgrena in Rome) — a “new...

On this date in 1911, one of the worst factory disasters in U.S. history occurred. A rag pile ignited at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. and killed 146 people, mostly young, immigrant women. The owners had not installed fire escapes...