Month: May 2005

While I agree that John Tierney is a total knob, I think he’s actually on to something when it comes to the depictions of violence  – and I would include militarism – on television. How many people here...

I usually like the emails from factcheck.org but this latest one troubles me.  In it they compare ad’s from rival political groups Progress for America and American Way.  The subject of course is judicial...

Sybil, who knows I’m a fan of PBS’s Frontline, sent me this zinger from Salon’s “Pushing PBS to the right” (subscription): “It’s designed to get people’s attention and warn them...

while working in his olive grove, 88-year-old Muhammad Kashu’a, a resident of `Elar, heard somebody calling to him. “I turned around and saw a group of about twelve soldiers,” he told B’Tselem. One of the...

Someone on Kos suggested I crosspost this here. Every time that I hear Joe Biden, Joe Lieberman or the other so-called “security Democrats” speak about the decision to go to war with Iraq I cringe. Do they really...