Month: March 2005

[promoted by BooMan] The American Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, is on a three-nation tour of Latin America and I thought I’d do a full article on what’s going on. The picture, courtesy of AP, is of...

“She’s just trying to make sure Anthony gets a good meal–Antonio.” -Bush commenting on Laura inviting Justice Antonin Scalia to dinner at the White House. NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokaw, Jan. 14, 2001...

Life is political. And politics is a good thing.  Those who mistake the partisan for the political mistake the trees for the forest.  And if we believe that politics is partisanship we risk killing off any possibility...

Sometime before November 7th, 2000, the decision of a single electron split the universe in two. This happens all the time. There are an infinity of universes and, paradoxically, they are increasing all the time. Every time an...

In a diary I posted yesterday, a few of our fellow members here at the Tribune suggested a place to talk books and movies. Everyone likes one or the other, don’t they? So here’s a place to chat about any good books...