Month: August 2006

I find the Catholic Church fascinating. I find that the current pope was a Nazi as a teen – specifically, a member of an Austrian Hitler Youth group – fascinating. But what fascinates me most is the connection to...

Most schoolchildren are familiar with California’s Giant Sequoia trees.  Towering over ordinary trees, they can become thousands of years old. With appropriate ceremony, President Clinton announced the creation of...

Almost two years ago in October 2004 Rheta Grimsley Johnson, a favorite columnist, wrote this about George W. Bush.  It was scathing in its simplicity, and it was absolutely brilliant in its ability to define this mean...

Chris Bowers and Matt Stoller have produced an excellent tool. They have given us a list of the 60 (.pdf) most likely to change hands Congressional seats. What’s more, they have provided a lot of useful information,...

…What appears as unforgivable to the Afghan people, perhaps more so than anything else, is the indifference in which they are treated, and the whitewashing of misdeeds by the occupiers. Although Karzai has been vocal...