Month: February 2006

What’s in a Name? Typically, when you go into a record store or on line to look for jazz, you see one of two things – either the CD prominently features the name of the main artist / group leader prominently, plus...

The effects of one Danish editor’s decision to solicit and publish 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed continue to have repurcussions around the world –violence, civil disobedience, and economic sanctions.  This...

Are humans to be doomed to this phenomenon until the end of time? Is there to be no golden moment in which mainstream societies will be able to overcome their pathological fear of the Other? And are Others doomed to huddle in...

Hesiod (formerly of Counterspin) has the latest on a new Republican astroturf propaganda outfit called Midwest Heroes who are running ads in Minnesota claiming “our enemy in Iraq is Al Quaida” that “American...

What are you doing this weekend? This ‘toon is hardly frivolous, but it’s funny. From American Progress’s cartoons, as is this one: Just in: Jill Carroll’s abductors have set a February 26 deadline for...