Month: June 2007

We must never permit the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is man’s sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man. ~Albert Schweitzer

As the “surge” progresses, Iraqi insurgents use increasingly lethal weapons and tactics, according to Ann Scott Tyson and John Ward Anderson of the Washington Post.  What’s more, the insurgents are...

(from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.)Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. ETYMOLOGY: Greek kakistos, worst, superlative of kakos, bad; see...

I’m amused to learn that The Nation columnist Eric Alterman got arrested at tonight’s Democratic debate after he crashed a closed party and raided the open bar. Considering how boring these early crowded debates are...

What’s up in the heartland?