Month: April 2006

Armando and Tacitus (Josh Trevino) launched their new left/right blog called Swords Crossed today. Don’t go visit it until Armando adds BT to the blogroll. Just kidding, I’m sure it is an innocent oversight that he...

“[I]n times of crisis it’s interesting that people don’t turn to the novel or say, ‘We should all go out to a movie,’ or ‘Ballet would help us.’ It’s always poetry. What we want to...

Since writing last nite about the new revelations of torture in Iraq, I find myself in a very familiar place. It’s that place where no other news of the day can even begin to inspire in me the passion to write, because so...

The Los Angeles Times editorial board calls for the resignations of Cheney and Rumsfeld. Right-wing fire-breather, Fred Barnes, likewise calls for Cheney’s head. David Gergen thinks Bush waited too long to make staff...

We know the plans have been made by Bush to attack Iran. The Iranians know it too. Arab countries in the region are already planning how they will respond once the attack comes, even while their ambassadors are warning us that...