Month: February 2006

Lewis Lapham is the first “mainstream’ media editor, to call for George w. Bush’s political head.  It’s about time.  His editorial in the latest issue of Harper’s is outstanding.  For...

I have to confess a certain respect for Randy ‘the Dukester’ Cunningham’s chutzpah. I mean, he is a very bad man and he fully deserved the frog-marching he received. But the brashness with which he pursued...

This coming Sunday at the Academy Awards, the film Sophie Scholl is nominated for Best Foreign Film. It is a true story of the title character who was part of the student resistance movement in Munich in the early 1940’s....

Froggy Bottom Cafe – Make a Wish Real live host on duty today! Newcomers welcome, please introduce yourselves. Newspapers are in their regular spot next to the door Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from...

Ignore all those bodies in the morgues. The civil war is dead. No really. It’s done. Finito. History. You can move on to other stories. I have it straight from the mouth of the US ambassador to Iraq, himself: The US...