Month: November 2007

Can we bring back the TimesSelect firewall? Please? Here’s Tommy Friedman: I have no idea who is going to win the Democratic presidential nomination, but lately I’ve been wondering whether, if it is Barack Obama, he might...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) last week published a report (.pdf) examining the humanitarian impact of Israel’s “security fence” on 67 Palestinian communities...

Anyone care to diagnose Maureen Dowd’s sexual hangups? The debate dominatrix knows how to rattle Obambi. Mistress Hillary started disciplining her fellow senator last winter, after he began exploring a presidential bid....

After participating in a couple of beer blogs at Balloon Juice and Big Orange Satan, I figured I’d try my hand here at BMT.  After all, I like beer almost as much as I like breathing, and I brew so much of the stuff,...

At this point in the rule of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, I thought I had reached shock fatigue. We’ve seen illegal invasions, torture, unprecedented levels of corruption, a warrantless wiretapping on a nationwide...