Month: December 2006

Clicking links this morning turns up a neat evaluation of HRC by Arianna Huffington in the Los Angeles Times. (Not sure if it’s on the HuffPost…)...

First of all, I want to do something that is certainly not typical for me. I want to congratulate Mary Cheney, her partner Heather Poe, and Lynne and Dick Cheney, on the wonderful news that they are expecting a new child to be...

Who cares that the overwhelming consensus among climate scientists is that global warming is both real and man-made. Smart people in the know (i.e., Republicans, Oil industry lobbyists and conservatives generally) know that...

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.  – Laurens Van der Post And the crazy man in the White House is a perfect example of...

Amongst other things, I noticed that the much-heralded Iraq Study Group’s report recommended direct talks with Palestinians – but only Palestinians who acknowledge Israel’s right to exist. I hear that phrase a...