Month: December 2005

Munich, the new film by Steven Spielberg is a disconcerting experience, intentionally. The director mixes fact and fiction to make a story ‘inspired by real events’, read that to mean it’s not factual in many...

I don’t see enough courage. I live in a rough neighborhood. There is gang activity. People get shot and killed. I’m an ethnic minority here. Everytime I leave my house I risk being mugged, or worse. When I go to a...

For one time, let us take Bob Novak seriously. (Despite easy ridicule and nomination for the Misinformer of the year title.) When he talks about conservative problems, he may be trustworthy. He writes in the last column: Control...

Comrades, I want to thank you all, especially Nico, for inviting me to your discussion.   I am not much of a writer.  I write, as I photograph, from my heart and not my head.  So, it is with some trepidation that...

  New questions arise every day and I don’t have to actively dig them up. It’s just one contradiction after another.   This applies to subjects in several current diaries  but I put it here, to avoid...